Japanese Prints

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The Hood's collection of more than three hundred Japanese woodblock prints is a valuable teaching resource. The collection includes prints in a wide variety of formats representing major print genres, including kabuki actor prints (yakusha-e), pictures of fashionable women (bijinga), perspective prints (uki-e), landscape prints (fūkeiga), warrior prints (musha-e), pictures of foreigners residing in Yokohama (Yokohama-e), prints depicting Japan's late nineteenth-century modernization (kaika-e), and early twentieth-century prints (shin hanga).

Related Exhibitions

• A Feast for the Eyes and a Sacred Trek for the Feet: Journeys along the Tokaido Highway, A Space for Dialogue 90, September 5, 2015, through October 18, 2015
• Dartmouth Looks at the Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari), June 16, 2014, through September 28, 2014
• The Women of Shin Hanga: The Judith and Joseph Barker Collection of Japanese Prints, April 6, 2013, through July 28, 2014
• Japanese Prints in the Hood Museum of Art: Recent Acquisitions, April 6, 2013, through July 28, 2013

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• The Women of Shin Hanga: The Judith and Joseph Barker Collection of Japanese Prints
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