木版画 · UKIYO-E WOODBLOCK PRINTS
Landscape prints by Hokusai and Hiroshige — sold as individual sheets, each physical copy photographed, graded, and priced on its own merits.
What is a woodblock print?
A Japanese woodblock print (moku hanga) is not a drawing or a poster — it is an impression taken by hand from carved cherry-wood blocks, one block per color, pressed onto handmade washi paper. Four specialists shared every sheet: the artist who designed it, the carver who cut the blocks, the printer who inked and burnished them, and the publisher who financed it all and owned the blocks. Because blocks outlived their makers and famous designs were re-carved for over a century, the same artwork exists today in many editions — different publishers, different decades, different paper. That is exactly what you'll compare when you shop here.
From the Tōkaidō road
Fifty-five designs, Nihonbashi to Kyoto — each with its own page, whatever the publisher.
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