This is a collection of more than 250 fine Japanese prints from before 1915 on CD. Most are of woodblock prints. Subjects include actors, women, landscapes, scenes from Japanese literature and daily life, and Western foreigners. Many schools and traditions are represented , but primary strengths include the Japanese art forms known as Ukiyo-e, translated as "pictures of the floating (or sorrowful) world"; and Yokohama-e, literally "pictures of Yokohama".
This is a collection of more than 250 fine Japanese prints from before 1915 on CD. Most are of woodblock prints. Subjects include actors, women, landscapes, scenes from Japanese literature and daily life, and Western foreigners. Many schools and traditions are represented , but primary strengths include the Japanese art forms known as Ukiyo-e, translated as "pictures of the floating (or sorrowful) world"; and Yokohama-e, literally "pictures of Yokohama".
Below you will see a sample of the size picture on the CD as well as small thumbnails of many of the images on the CD.
[Village scene in Japan showing people engaged in various activ... |
Kita-Amerika kyowa seiji-shu jokan shinzo no utsushi |
Amerikajin yugyo |
Gaikoku jinbutsu zuga - Nankin, Furansu |
Gaikoku jinbutsu zuga - Amerika |
Gaikoku jinbutsu zuga - Oranda, Oroshia, Amerika nyonin, Amerika |
Ikoku kotoba |
Ikoku kotoba - Amerika |
Ikoku kotoba - rango |
Moko no shashin |
Shindo hakurai ozo no zu |
Amerika |
Amerikajin no zu - pansei nokamato |
Amerikakoku jokisenchu no zu |
Amerikakoku jokisha orai |
Gaikoku kanjin orai no zu |
Gaikoku kodomo yugi no zu |
Kuruma zukushi |
Gaikokujin ifuku shitate no zu |
Gaikokujin kodomo choai no zu |
[Woman after bath (the model Tomi after bath)] |
Gokakoku ijin shuen no zu |
Ijin chiyu |
Ijin yashiki ryori no zu |
Oranda |
Nagasaki no chizu |
Seisha - Orandajin, Nankin |
Shosha - Amerikajin |
Yokohama gaikokujin gyoretsu no zu |
Yokohama ijin yashiki no zu |
Yokohama kenbutsu zue |
Yokohama meisho benten: Amerikajin |
Toto meisho takanawa - Oroshiya |
Naniwa Higashibori tekkyo no zu |
Ijin shishimai kenbutsu no zu |
[Yokohama ijin yashiki] |
Amerikajin no zu |
Amerikajin yuko sakamori |
Amerikajin - bango wakai |
Daikyokuba |
Amerikakoku |
Bankoku jinbutsu no uchi - Oroshia, Fransu |
Bankoku zukushi - Igirisujin |
Bushu Yokohama hakkei no uchi - hatoba no kihan |
Bushu Yokohama meisho zu - Amerika bijo, hatoba |
Gaikoku jinbutsu zukushi - minami Amerika |
Gaikoku jinbutsu zuga - Oroshiya |
Orandasen |
Gaikoku jinbutsu zukushi - Amerika, Nankin |
Gaikoku jinbutsu zukushi - Amerika |
Gaikoku jinbutsu zukushi - Amerika nyonin |
Gaikoku jinbutsu - Amerika, Furansu |
Gaikokujin yuko no zu - Igirisu nyonin |
Gaikokujin yuko no zu - Amerika nyonin |
Gokakoku no uchi - Amerikajin |
Oroshiyajin |
Gokakoku no uchi - Igirisujin |
Igirisu |
Igirisujin yuko Yokohama odori |
Igirisukoku Rondon no zu |
Tokyo Nihonbashi han ei no zu |
Tokyo orai kuruma zukushi |
Tokyo Takanawa kaigan jokisha tetsudo hashiriyuki no sen zu |
Ryuko kuruma zukushi |
Toto meisho Shinobazu |
Furansu Igirisu sanpei daichosen no zu |
Atora ranpei michi yuki namaji no anayome |
Chutenjiku hakurai ozo no zu |
Hakurai Ozo no ben |
Bankoku jinbutsu zue - Itaria kokuo |
Ryuko eigo zukushi |
[Kita-Amerika gasshukoku: Peruri to yu mono Soshu Uraga ni tora... |
Tokaido Kanagawa urashima-dera sanjo ni okeru ikokusen hasso ch... |
Tokyo shimbashi rengaishi tetsudo jokisha shinkei zu |
Tokyo Ueno yama shita yori Nakasendo ofuku jokitetsudo no zu |
[Two Japanese men and one foreigner riding on a horse while a J... |
[James Watt, inventor of the steam engine] |
[John Heathcoat, inventor of the knitting machine] |
[Thomas Carlyle, author] |
[Commodore Perry in Japan] |
[Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor of the spinning machine] |
Amerika, Furansu, Nankin |
Bankoku nyusen sugoroku |
Nankin, Oroshiy |
Amerika nigiwai no zu |
Gaikokujin sen no uchi: jokisen |
Igirisu rondon taiko |
[Yokohama hatoba] |
Yokohama kaigan tetsudo jokisha no zu |
[Actor Tada Kuroda Yukitsuna] |
Shokonsha keidai Furansu okyokuba [no] zu |
Takanawa Igirisu kan |
Tokyo meisho Takanawa no shinkei |
Tokyo Shinagawa oki no kurofune |
Amerikatsujin |
Odoke sanjuroku kasen |
Ueno koen naikoku kangyo daini hakurankai bijitsukan narabini [... |
[Actor Ichikawa Kyuzo III (1836-1911) in the role of the servan... |
Yokohama kaigan kakkoku shokan zu |
[F-ry- gengi yuki no nagame] |
Bankoku jinbutsu no uchi: Oranda fujin |
Bankoku jinbutsu no uchi: Amerikajin |
Genji monogatari 54 |
Bankoku sankai tsuran bunzu |
Shiodama yori jokisha tsuko no zu |
[Various types of birds] |
Gojo nai tsuribashi no zu |
Uma nori zukushi |
Yokohama tetsudo joki shussha no zu |
[Tsukiji hotel] |
[Steam train] |
Bankoku jinbutsu no zu |
Tokyo meisho no zu - Asakusa dera, denshinkyoku |
Bankoku keihin denbun mosha shu harimaze |
Tokyo meisho sanjuroku gisen - sukiya [ongishi] |
Shojiki o mamoru mono wa tenjin kore o sutezu |
Shojo no jinshinshi kunshi mo oyobasaru tokoro ari |
Komojin no zu |
[Camel] |
Amerika jokan hansui o gansuru no zu |
Amerika no shonin shoju no sakura o motomete oi ni kanki no zu |
Amerikakoku |
Atago yama chobo |
Gokakoku jinbutsu zue - Orandakoku |
Igirisujin Yokohama ni orimono irowake no zu |
Kanda Myojin shanai |
Shincho Nankinjin kansho Koshu ogi no zu |
Toto meisho kenbutsu ijin - Ryogokubashi |
Kita Amerika jinbutsu: Peruri zo |
Yokohama ijin shoka shuen no zu |
Yokohama ijin shokan no zu |
Yokohama ijin shokan zashiki no zu |
Yokohama kyujitsu Furansujin uma yuko |
Yokohama kyujitsu - Orandajin yuko |
Yokohama kyujitsu - Oroshiyajin yuko |
Yokohama kyujitsu Amerikajin yuko |
[Fukigusa sono yuran] |
[Fukigusa sono yuran] |
[Yume no ukihashi] |
[Hairdressing] |
[Untitled] |
[Actor Ytani Tomomatsu, a.k.a. Ytani Tomoemon V (1833-1873), in... |
[Icefish cooking in a pan] |
[Untitled] |
[Shakuyaku Kanari] |
[Scene in a villa. |
[Ichikawa Danj-ro VIII in a scene from the play Raigo ajari kai... |
[Untitled] |
[Actor with sword in a thunder god pose] |
[F-ry- nana komachi] |
[Actor Kurgoda Ukinaga] |
[The ruthless crusher, July 25, 1904] |
[Actor Sawamura Tanasuke] |
[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.] |
[Man holding up a magnifying glass to look at the famous samura... |
[Shoki striding] |
[Ichikawa Ebizo aitsutome moshi soro] |
[Meiyo migi ni teki nashi Hidari jingoro] |
[The stream of Asazawa in spring 1828] |
[Portrait of Miyamoto Musashi] |
[Hizen Goto geigyo no zu] |
[Furansu Eigirisu sampei daichoren no zu] |
[Furansu Eigirisu sampei daichoren no zu] |
[Han Gaku-jo] |
[Meiyo migi ni teki nashi Hidari jingoro] |
[Actor Sanjo Kantaro as a peddler of love letters] |
[Kinokuni ya Sawamura Sanj-ro III as Oboshi Yuranosuke] |
[Kinhyoshi Yorin, hero of the Suikoden] |
[Portrait of Nakayama Tomisaburo] |
[Ensh- Akiba takkei fukuroi-dako] |
[Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyo] |
[Karasaki no yoru no ame] |
[Actor Sawamura Tanosuke III (1845-1878) in the role of Princes... |
[Detail from an actor scroll] |
[Hikyoku no biwa no hana: Matsunami Kengyo, jitsu wa Aku Hichibei] |
[Unnamed actor as the character Toneri Matsum"maru in the play ... |
[Unnamed actor as the character Toneri Ume"maru in the play Sug... |
[Yakusha sangoku shi] |
[Yokohama koeki seiyojin nimotsu unso no zu] |
[Night scene lit by a lantern. |
[Actor Nakamura Shikan IV (1831-1899) in the role of the fugiti... |
[New Yoshiwara: Shigeoka from Okamotoya house on Kyo Street (se... |
[The nobleman Sugawara Michizane who became the god Kitano] |
[Yamaotoko I] |
[New Yoshiwara: Hanamurasak from Tamaya house on Edo Street (fi... |
[American sailor drinking] |
[Sawamura Sojuro I (1689-1756) and Ichimura Takenojo dancing wi... |
Objects of the sea |
[Kambara zu] |
Circus |
[Imagined landscape] |
[Sawamura Sojuro and Yamatogawa Tomigoro in the role of a samur... |
[Wounded warrior drinking] |
[Actor Nakamura Shikan IV (1831-1899) in the role of Teraoka He... |
[Kume Sennin spies on a girl] |
[Actor Ichimura Uzaemon XIII (1844-1903) in the role of Ushiwak... |
[Gokakoku gankiryo ni okeru sakamori no zu] |
[Gokakoku gankiryo ni okeru sakamori no zu] |
[Actor Sawamura Tanosuke in the role of Osen's younger sister O... |
[Hair ornaments and toilet articles] |
[Actor Nakamura Shikan IV (1831-1899)] |
[Amerika nigiwai no zu] |
[Actor Akugenta Yoshihira] |
[Amerika nigiwai no zu] |
[Actor Saitogo Kunitake] |
[Kada hone o kezurite Kan-u ya-kizu o ryoji suru zu] |
[Kada hone o kezurite Kan-u ya-kizu o ryoji suru zu] |
[Meiyo migi ni teki nashi Hidari jingoro] |
[Kanadehon ch-shingura: youchi ninzu no uchi] |
[Actor Sawamura Tanosuke III (1845-1878) in the role of the fem... |
[F-ry- gengi yuki no nagame] |
[Actor Nakamura Fukusuke in the role of the servant Hanshichi] |
[Actor Nakamura Shikan IV (1831-1899) in the role of Fuwa Kazue... |
[Edo meisho ai no uchi: Oshichi] |
[F-ry- gengi yuki no nagame] |
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