Exhibitions
- The World of the Japanese Illustrated Book: The Gerhard Pulverer Collection
The Gerhard Pulverer Collection, purchased in its entirety by the Freer Gallery of Art in 2007, includes many of the rarest and most pristine examples of the Edo period’s most famous illustrated books. Its 936 titles encompass almost 2,200 volumes, ranging in date from the early 17th century to the 1970s. Gathered over a period of more than 30 years by Pulverer, a renowned German medical researcher, the collection was regarded as the premier private collection of Japanese illustrated books outside Japan.
Museums
- Art Institute of Chicago
Encyclopedic collections cover art worldwide. Particularly strong collection of Japanese woodblock prints (Edo period), - Brooklyn Museum: Hiroshige's One Hundred famous Views of Edo
Hiroshige's “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo,” actually composed of 118 splendid woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art. The series, reproduced online in its entirety, contains many of Hiroshige's best loved and most extraordinary prints. The site contains essays on Hiroshige and his life and "How to Read a Japanese Woodblock Print". Prints can be browsed by season or by keywords that describe the scene. - Fine Prints: Japanese, pre-1915
The 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." - NYPL Digital Gallery | Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan
New York Public Library presents this enjoyable way to leaf through a selection of Japanese books from the Spencer Collection, that encompasses "300 manuscripts and 1,500 printed books from Japan; the manuscripts range from the 12th to the 20th century, and the printed works from the year 770 to the present". The collection guide points out highlights for those uncertain where to begin in this surfeit of riches. Suggestions include Kitagawa Utamaro's Shiohi no tsuto (Gifts of the Ebb Tide, 1789; referred to in English as "The Shell Book"), considered a masterpiece in the Ehon style. The collect ion guide also directs users to view Kamisaka Sekka's Momoyogusa ("Flowers of a Hundred Worlds", 1910) from the 20th century, in a much more modern style. (fr. the website)
Mary A. Ainsworth Collection of Japanese Prints, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
Japanese woodblock prints: a catalogue of the Mary A. Ainsworth Collection by Call Number: Art Library, NE1321.8 .J37 1984ISBN: 0942946014Publication Date: 1993-04-01A catalog of the Allen Museum's Ainsworth Collection of Japanese woodblock prints. Oberlin's encyclopedic collection of over 1,500 ukiyoe wood block prints was donated by Mary Ainsworth (1867-1950) covers the whole history of ukiyoe including the most rare and earliest examples. The works by the so-called six greatest ukiyoe masters — Utagawa Hiroshige, Katsushika Hokusai, Hishikawa Moronobu, Suzuki Harunobu, Torii Kiyonaga, Kitagawa Utamaro and Tōshūsai Sharaku — are all included in the collection; her beloved Hiroshige comprises the majority of the whole collection.
- Mary Ainsworth Collection of Illustrated Japanese Books
The illustrated Japanese books from the Ainsworth Collection are housed in the Terrell Library Special Collections. Almost the entire collection has been digitized and is available here. Many, though not all, were published in the Edo Period. - Mary A. Ainsworth Collection of Japanese Prints
Over 1,000 of the Ukiyo-e prints in the Mary Ainsworth have been digitized and are available for viewing here.
Ukiyo-e prints from the Mary Ainsworth collection. by Call Number: Art Library, NE1315.J3 C5 2019Publication Date: 2019Catalogue of a the first traveling exhibition of the Ainsworth collection of Japanese prints. Includes an introduction by Andria Derstine, and essays by Kevin Greenwood, Masako Tanabe, and Helen Mitsu Nagata.