Fine Prints: Japanese, pre-1915The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division houses more than 2,500 Japanese woodblock prints and drawings, dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, by such artists as Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi, Sadahide, and Yoshiiku. Many schools and traditions are represented, but primary strengths include the Japanese art forms known as Ukiyo-e, and Yokohama-e, literally "pictures of Yokohama."
Subjects include actors, women, landscapes, scenes from Japanese literature and daily life, and visitors from Europe and North America.