General
Exhibitions: Ukiyo-e
Exhibitions: Modern Prints
Museums with Modern Japanese Print Collections
Commercial Print Galleries
Additional Resources
¡§What is a Print?¡¨
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2001/whatisaprint/flash.html
An excellent flash-demonstration of the printmaking process . The website was created to accompany an exhibition of modern prints at MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art, New York) held in 2001. It concentrates on four printmaking processes: woodcutting, etching, lithography and screen printing. Requires: Macromedia Flash Player
"Viewing Japanese Prints" by John Fiorillo
http://spectacle.berkeley.edu/~fiorillo/
Very comprehensive guide to Japanese prints, including Ukiyo-e and modern prints. Mr. Fiorillo's links page is worth visiting. "Other Sites" http://spectacle.berkeley.edu/~fiorillo/texts/topictexts/other_sites.html
"Handbook of Japanese Printmaking Technique" by David Bull
http://woodblock.com/encyclopedia/index.html
"Grove Dictionary of Art"
http://www.groveart.com
Has excellent essays on shin-hanga, sosaku hanga, mingei, and biographies of some of the major artists.
Artlino.com signatures and seals
http://www.artelino.com/forum/signatures.asp
Searchable seal and signature database; includes many Japanese print artists.
A Guide to the Ukiyo-e Sites of the Internet by Hans Olaf Johansson
http://user.bahnhof.se/~secutor/ukiyo-e/guide.html
¡§Ukiyo-e Gallery¡¨
http://www.ukiyoe-gallery.com/library.htm
Information and pictures about printmaking and publisher seals. Some useful sub-pages at this site:
Watanabe Publisher Seals http://www.ukiyoe-gallery.com/watasealpage1.htm
Sketchbooks of Kawase Hasui http://www.ukiyoe-gallery.com/sketchbookshasui.htm
Cherrywood Woodblocks of Kyoto http://www.ukiyoe-gallery.com/kyotoblocks.htm
Modern Day Woodblock Printers Still Working in Japan http://www.ukiyoe-gallery.com/uchida.htm
"Pictures of the Floating World"
http://www.artsmia.org/art-of-asia/explore/explore-collection-ukiyo-e.cfm
From the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; excellent introduction to ukiyo-e. 367 ukiyo-e images (31 pages) of landscapes, women, kabuki actors, flowers and birds. Includes a video, for which Quicktime is required.
"Universes in Collision: Men and Women in Nineteenth Century Japanese Prints"
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dic/bayly/
Online companion to 1997 exhibit from the Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia. Images and annotations of nineteenth century Japanese prints by Utagawa Kunisada, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, and Katsukawa Shunsen,
exploring "the relationship between men and women."
"Visualizing Japan" from MIT "Visualizing Cultures" series
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027j/menu/index.html
A cultural history of 19th and early 20th century Japan using images. In six topical units
"Hokusai: Mad About Painting"
http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/hokusai/launch.htm#
Online exhibition from the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institute.
"The Floating World of Ukiyo-e: Shadows, Dreams, and Substance"
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/ukiyo-e/
Online exhibition from the Library of Congress; includes a short segment on modern prints, "Beyond Ukiyo-e."
"Dream Worlds: Modern Japanese Prints and Paintings from the Robert O. Muller Collection"
http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/dreamWorlds/default.htm
Online exhibition from the Freer-Sackler; 321 shin-hanga images.
ArtCyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
A guide to electronic images of paintings and sculpture available on museum internet sites. Search by artist's name.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=browpage;dept=japan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
http://www.thinker.org/fam/about/imagebase/index.asp
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp
Harvard University Art Museums
http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/collections/servlet/webpublisher.WebCommunication?ia=tr&ic=pt&t=bassearch&f=bassearchform
Cleveland Museum of Art
http://cma.org/explore/advancedSearch.asp?
Five College Museums/Historic Deerfield Collections Database
http://museums.fivecolleges.edu/
Smith College Museum of Art [SC]
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College [AC]
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum [MH]
University Gallery at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst [UM]
Hampshire College Art Gallery [HC]
Historic Deerfield [HD]
The British Museum COMPASS
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/index.html
Art Gallery of New South Wales
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/simple_search
Munakata Shiko Memorial Museum of Art. Aomori
http://www.lantecweb.net/shikokan/
Saito Kiyoshi Museum of Art, Yanaizu
http://www4.ocn.ne.jp/~s.k.muse/
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan
http://search.artmuseums.go.jp/
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Nihon Mingeikan ( Japanese Folk Crafts Museum)
http://www.mingeikan.or.jp/english/html/yanagi_soetsu.html
Biography of Soetsu Yanagi and history of the Mingei Movement.
Other Japanese Museums can be found at the Japanese Museum Directory
http://www.dnp.co.jp/museum/icc-e.html
Or at "Collections of Japanese Art Online and in Print"
http://www.columbia.edu/~hds2/BIB95/00art_images_buckland.htm
Or "Museums in Japan"
http://icom.museum/vlmp/japan.html
Yoseido Gallery
http://www.yoseido.com/
Yoseido Gallery was opened in 1954 by Abe Yuji, third generation representative of a family of art-mounters which had formerly been appointed to mount scrolls, screens, and the like for the Imperial Household. Abe Yuji served as the principal salesman for artists.
Ronin Gallery
http://www.japancollection.com/index.php
Claims to have " the largest collection of 17th through 21st century Japanese prints for sale in the United States." Opened in 1975 in New York City.
Scriptum Modern Japanese Prints
http://www.scriptum.com/
Carolyn Stanley Fine Japanese Prints
http://www.carolynstaleyprints.com/index.html
Saru Gallery
http://www.sarugallery.com/default.php
See their SosakuHanga.net for a very comprehensive historical outline and database of images.
The Ren Brown Collection
http://www.renbrown.com/
Floating World Gallery
http://www.floatingworld.com/
Hanga
http://www.hanga.com/aboutus.cfm
"Japanese Art History"
http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/eac/arthist.htm
Lists of bibliographies, dictionaries and encyclopedia, Journals, WWW sites, art museum and associations etc.
Asianart.com
http://www.asianart.com/
A very useful on-line journal for the study and exhibition of the arts of Asia; includes information on associations, exhibitions, articles and galleries.
Japanese Art History Resources
http://www.art-and-archaeology.com/timelines/japan/japan.html
A Chronology of Japanese History
http://www.shikokuhenrotrail.com/japanhistory.html
World Wide Arts Resources
http://wwar.world-arts-resources.com/index.html
General site for contemporary art. Searches by artist name can sometimes yield astounding results.
Asia Art Archive
http://www.aaa.org.hk/index.html
From Hong Kong, so it includes more Chinese art than Japanese art. Does not have image databases, but the text archive might turn up some useful information.