Ukiyo-e of the Week

Kaigetsudō Ando: Bijin and Attendant, 1710 Painter Kaigetsudō Ando (1671-1743) founded the Kaigetsudō school, and some of “his” wo...

Nobukazu: Snow Landscape, about 1890 Snow Landscape , from the series Snow, Moon and Flower for the Minamoto and Taira by Watanabe N...

Toyokuni I: Actor Iwai Hanshirō V as Sukeroku , 1816 Utagawa Toyokuni (1769-1825), or Toyokuni I, was a very influential ukiyo-e...

Hokkei: En'ryû zu - The salt dragon This is a surimono by Totoya Hokkei (1780–1850), one of Hokusai's students. The exac...

Nakayama Sûgakudô: Tit and Maple Leaves I don't know much about  Nakayama Sûgakudô  (active 1850–1860), but he made kachô-e , p...

Chōki: Cat's Cradle, about 1804 Eishōsai Chōki (active about 1786-1808) was a student of Toriyama Sekien , who was also the tea...

  Kuniyoshi: Yôkyô (Yang Xiang) , 1848 The Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety is a book by Chinese scholar Guo Jujing , who w...