Hokusai Mangwa
Nature, Life in Edo, Monsters & Ghosts – sketches by the great master of
everyday life. Warning: They have “improved” their site by replacing it with VERY
slow-loading Flash 8.
Educational Colored Woodblock Prints
In 1873 the Ministry of Education published a number of prints to help families
educate their children. These prints show house-building, silk-making, tea-raising, and other crafts.
There are also prints that illustrate moral lessons such as kindness, obedience, and studying rather
than goofing off.
The World of Sumo Nishikie
The site’s in Japanese, but click on anything that looks like a link. Features a
magnificent collection of prints of sumo matches, referees, and wrestlers in and out of the
ring.
Japanese Art on the Subject of Medicine
Obstetrical diagrams, patent-medicine ads, casting out disease demons, and a lot
more.
Todai
Nishikie
This site is in Japanese, but there are a lot of woodblock prints; most of them look
like they show Japanese contacts with Westerners.
Don’t Sell Salt Illegally: Posters in Occupied Japan
Smithsonian Institution exhibit showing how graphic design reflected the era’s
cultural confusion. Still preserved on the Internet Archive.
Japanese Prints and the World of
Go
Go through the ages, as depicted in woodblock prints
Museum of Fiber Science
and Technology
“VR Museum” of woodblock prints showing silk making. Apparently you
can also buy this collection on CD-ROM.
Books of Japanese Prints:
Morse, Peter. Hokusai: One Hundred Poets. George Brazillier, Inc. 1989. ISBN 0-8076-1213-8
Forrer, Matthi. Hokusai. Barnes & Noble, 2002. ISBN 0-7607-3535-2
Calza, Gian Carlo. Hokusai. Phaidon Press, 2003. ISBN 0-7148-4457-8
Neuer, Roni and Herbert Libertson. Ukiyo-e: 250 Years of Japanese Art. Gallery Books, 1979. ISBN 0-8317-9041-5
Japanese Colour Prints from Harunobu to Utamaro. Faber and Faber, 1952.
Faulkner, Rupert Masterpieces of Japanese Prints: Ukiyo-e from the Victoria and Albert Museum. Kodansha America, 1999. ISBN 4-7700-2387-1
Fahr-Becker, Gabriele, ed. Japanese Prints. Taschen, 2001. ISBN 3-8228-6520-6
Hillier, J. Japanese Colour Prints Phaidon Press, 2001. ISBN 0-7148-2721-5
Hiroshige. Prestel, 2001. ISBN 3-7913-2594-9
Hokusai. Prestel, 1991. ISBN 3-7913-2490-X
Bicknell, Julian. Hiroshige in Tokyo: The Floating World of Edo. Pomegranate Artbooks, 1994. ISBN 1-56640-803-2