The Hood’s collection of Japanese prints represents major print genres and themes, including actors, fashionable women, perspective, landscape, warriors, Japan’s 19th-century modernization, and early 20th-century prints.
Browse objects from this featured collection.
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).
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
- 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
- The Women of Shin Hanga: The Judith and Joseph Barker Collection of Japanese Prints
- Studying the Hood’s Japanese Prints: A Student’s Perspective
- “Hood Museum Exhibition Showcases Works from Major Promised Gift of Japanese Prints”