ukiyo-e

Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties, kabuki actors, sumo wrestlers, scenes from history and folk tales, travel scenes and landscapes and so on. Learn more

Hokusai is undoubtedly Japan’s most iconic artist. is best-known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (c. 1831) which includes the iconic and internationally recognized print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created during the 1820s. Find his works at Sumida Hokusai Museum at Ryogoku.

Kuniyoshi was one of the last great masters of the Japanese ukiyo-e style. He had a ravenous imagination and the full scope of his work reveals an aesthetic sensibility capable of capturing almost any experience from landscapes to Kabuki actors, cats, and mythical animals. See his works from September 3 at Ota Memorial Museum in Harajuku.