Ukioye Masterpieces I

'A Girl Dancer' from the Tosa School

3 sections of 'The Hikone Screen' from the Kano School

'Groups of Men and Women Dancing' (school and artist unknown)

Three pictures on wall panels in the detached
Palace at Nagoya from the Kano School:
'Ship Being Unloaded'; 'The Shoot'; 'House Building'

'View in the Vicinity of Kyoto' by the
Tosa School (artist uknown) - painting on paper

'Women Looking at the Maple Trees at Takao, near Kyoto'
by Hideyori Kano (from a 6-fold screen on paper)

'The Festival of Toyokuni Daimyojin'
(part of 6-fold screen) [plus detail, slightly cleaned]

'The Sumida-Gawa, A Theatrical Picture' by Moronobu Hishikawa

'A Youth Carrying a Lady' by Morohiro Hishikawa painting on silk

'Horse Training' by the Kano School: section from a 6-part screen

'Poetess Komachi Washing the Book' (from painting on silk)

'Ryogoku Bridge' by Moroshige Hishikawa (from painting on silk)

'A Beautiful Girl with her Maid' by Morofusa Hishigawa (from painting on silk)

'A Beauty and a Little Girl' (artist/school uknown)

'A Beauty and a Young Man' by Moronobu Hishigawa (painting on silk)

'A Theatrical Picture' by Wawo Hishikawa (painting on silk)

[click for enlarged versions]

'Masterpieces Selected from The Ukiyoye School' was published in Tokyo in english between 1906-1909 with text from 1869 by Shiichi Tajima and is online at Carnegie Mellon University's Posner Library. There are perhaps 10 more colour and 15 black and white images not seen above.

It wasn't until after I had jagged and tweaked all these images that I realised that there are actually 4 volumes in this series, so I'll probably try to make up a post from each book in the coming weeks.

Wikipedia's entry on Ukioy-e has a host of links for anyone curious.