An Introduction to Japanese Prints and the Printing Process I created this PowerPoint presentation to give you a very brief history of Japanese print making and a demonstration of the building of a nishki-e, multi-color print.

Ukioye: Japanese Woodblock Prints This is a wonderful web gallery created by the U. S. Library of Congress. There is a wide range of prints and excellent images to study.

A Video Guide to Woodblock Printing was created by Dartmouth College and Professor Allen Hockley. You can study the carving process as well as the printing process for building a multi-block print.

Ujiyo-e Techniques was created by Wesleyan University professor Keiji Shinohara. In the videos Professor Shinohara demonstrates traditional and contemporary carving and printing techniques. There's a wonderful gallery of prints with a great zoom feature. The gallery includes prints from the 18th and 19th centuries as well as Professor Shinohara's works. If you don't have Flash Player, you can download it from this site.

Woodblock Printing Terms and Definitions is a wonderful site from OsakaPrints.com. It's a great reference for anyone interested in Kabuki prints and those from the Kansai region - Osaka, Kyoto and Ise.

One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by the great landscape artist Ando Hiroshige are online courtesy of a special exhibit by the Brooklyn Museum of Art. You can view the entire 116 prints or explore them by the season. The images are clear and colorful as the prints were an original deluxe edition.

The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido click here to view all prints in the great woodblock print series by Ando Hiroshige. Helen Rindsberg created this introduction to the life, legends, entertainment and passions of the common people in 1830s Japan.

Kunisada and Kabuki This is a great site where you can learn more about the traditions of the Kabuki theater and see the colorful woodblock prints of one of it's most famous artists. There's an introduction to Kunisada's art, a section where you can see what a Kabuki theater looked like and a virtual gallery of all the prints.

The Chushingura Theme in Ukiyo-e tells the story of the 47 Ronin and how artists interpreted the drama in woodblock prints.

Japonisme Japanese woodblock prints greatly affected Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists. The poster artist Toulouse-Lautrec adapted the exaggerated colors, contours and facial expressions of Kabuki prints in his eye-catching posters.