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The Role of Samurai as Ukiyo-E Artists in the Edo Period of Japan

Educational Guide on Ukiyo-E by Brian Barr

Databases

Art History Research

This resource dives into the international history of art, which includes Japanese art history as well!

Japanese Art Open Database

This database focsues specifically on Japanese art and Japanese art history with a strong focus on Ukiyo-E in general.

Japanese Woodblock Print Search

This is a great website to look up Ukiyo-E art from the 1700's all the way to the Meiji Era period with lots of documented woodblock prints.

Japanese Art Open Database

This open database is filled with extensive research-based information on Japanese art, including Ukiyo-E!

Meiji Japan

Meiji Japan serves as a digital collection of research papers by the late 1800's/early 1900's American polymath Edward Slyvester Morse.

Cultural Japan

A fantastic database dedicated to Japanese culture with documented art and art history.