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 Resource
Japanese Prints at the Hood Museum of Art
An interactive online guide to significant Japanese prints from the Hood Museum of Art. Created for high school and college students by Professor Allen Hockley, 2003. The site features:
- Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858): two complete Tokaido series
- Katsukawa Shunsen (1762–1830?): eleven acts of the popular kabuki play Chushingura.
- Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865): Opening Night in the Morita Kabuki Theater
- A guide to the print production process
Related Exhibitions
- Japanese Prints in the Hood Museum of Art: Recent Acquisitions
- The Women of Shin Hanga: The Judith and Joseph Barker Collection of Japanese Prints
- Dartmouth Looks at the Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari)
- A Feast for the Eyes and a Sacred Trek for the Feet: Journeys along the Tokaido Highway
- Decoration and Function: The Evolving Relationship of Colors and Lines in the Japanese Print Tradition
- Inside the Floating World: Japanese Prints from The Lenoir C. Wright Collection