If you want the complete files to display, you can click on the small versions. You can then save the images fom within xv or whatever external viewer you use. If you are in or near the US, the files that are here came from ftp.uwtc.washington.edu where they are in the /pub2/Japanese/Pictures/Ukiyo-e directory, so you may like to save some trans-Pacific bandwidth and get them from there.
The files are also available on the excellent Walnut Creek CD-ROM: "East Asian Text Processing".
Another excellent WWW collection is Rafael Santos' Ukiyo-E Gallery. Please try that one (although the link to Kyuushuu can be slow.)
Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858) is one of the most famous Ukiyo-E artists. He specialized in landscapes, and in particular his sets of related scenes, such as the "Hundred Famous Places of Edo" and "Famous Views of the Eastern City". Best known is his "Fifty-Three Stages of the Tokaido", which depict scenes along the old imperial highway from Edo (Tokyo) to Kyoto.
This is Number 11. The scene is looking down on Lake Ashi at Hakone.
This is Number 16, the famous "Evening snow at Kanbara". It is regarded
by many as one of the finest in the genre.
This is the famous "off Kanagawa", often known in the West as "The Wave".
This gallery has several other Mt Fuji Views prints.
Shuraku was a mysterious Noh actor, about whom little is known. In a burst of energy in 1794-5 he produced over 300 prints, mostly of other Kabuki and Noh actors.
This print is of the Noh actor Ichikawa Ebizo IV in the role of Takemura
Sadanoshin.
Some as-yet unclassified pictures. Any help from experts would be appreciated.
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