Japanese Prints

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Kawanabe Kyosai (1831–1889)

Sleeping Cat, 1885–89

Woodblock print, 9¾ × 10⅛ in. (24.4 × 25.5 cm)

From the notecard set Japanese Prints Museum of Fine Arts, Boston . Abbeville Press

Image copyright © 2023 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich; 47.48

Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797–1858)

Small Horned Owl in a Pine Tree, c. 1835

Woodblock print, 14¾ × 4¾ in. (36.7 × 12 cm)

From the notecard set Japanese Prints Museum of Fine Arts, Boston . Abbeville Press

Image copyright © 2023 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection; 21.7943

Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849)

Chrysanthemums and Horsefly, from an untitled series known as Large Flowers, c. 1833–34

Woodblock print, 10 × 14¾ in. (25.3 × 37 cm)

From the notecard set Japanese Prints Museum of Fine Arts, Boston . Abbeville Press

Image copyright © 2023 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection; 21.6681

Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849)

The Amida Falls in the Far Reaches of the Kiso Road, from the series A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces, c. 1832  Woodblock print, 14¼ × 10⅛ in. (36.1 × 25.7 cm)

From the notecard set Japanese Prints Museum of Fine Arts, Boston . Abbeville Press

Image copyright © 2023 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection; 21.6687

Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797–1858)

Night View of Saruwaka-machi, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 1856

Woodblock print, 14⅛ × 9½ in. (35.7 × 24 cm)

From the notecard set Japanese Prints Museum of Fine Arts, Boston . Abbeville Press

Image copyright © 2023 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection; 21.10436

Kitagawa Utamaro I (early 1750s–1806)

Three Beauties of the Present Day: Tomimoto Toyohina, Naniwaya Kita, Takashima Hisa, c. 1793

Woodblock print, 14¾ × 9⅞ in. (37 × 25 cm)

From the notecard set Japanese Prints Museum of Fine Arts, Boston . Abbeville Press

Image copyright © 2023 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection; 21.6382

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (1786–1864)

The In-demand Type, from the series Thirty-two Physiognomic Types in the Modern World, c. 1820

Woodblock print, 14½ × 11⅛ in. (36.8 × 28.3 cm)

From the notecard set Japanese Prints Museum of Fine Arts, Boston . Abbeville Press

Image copyright © 2023 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Parney Carter Collection—Bequest of Nellie Parney Carter; 34.489

Nellie

Kitagawa Utamaro I (c. 1750–1806)

The Immortal Qin Gao, represented by Hinazuru of the Chojiya, kamuro Tsuruji and Tsuruno, from the series Eight Immortals in the Art of Love, c. 1793–94

Woodblock print, 14¾ × 9⅞ in. (37.3 × 25 cm)

From the notecard set Japanese Prints Museum of Fine Arts, Boston . Abbeville Press

Image copyright © 2023 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston William Sturgis Bigelow Collection; 11.14262

Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849)

Watanabe no Gengo Tsuna and Inokuma Nyudo Raiun, from an untitled series of warriors in combat, c. 1833–35 Woodblock print, 14¾ × 10½ in. (37.4 × 26.5 cm)

From the notecard set Japanese Prints Museum of Fine Arts, Boston . Abbeville Press

Image copyright © 2023 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston William Sturgis Bigelow Collection; 11.17552

William Sturgis Bigelow Collection; 11.22914-6

Image copyright © 2023 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston . Abbeville Press

From the notecard set Japanese Prints

At the Battle of Takadachi in Oshu Province in 1187, a White Dragon Ascends to Heaven from the Koromo River , 1857 Woodblock print, 14¾ × 29⅞ in. (37.5 × 75.5 cm)

Utagawa

Yoshitsuya (1822–1866)

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