Links and Further Readings

Links

Ukiyo-e;  This is a searchable database of thousands of wooblock prints from musuems all over the world

YokohamaBoomtown; a project by MIT that is part of the visual narratives project. This site is a learning tool for basic information on the yokohama-e genre.

Met Museum; provides a short introductory essay, timelines and other visual tools about ukiyo-e in general. 

Victoria and Albert Musuem; an essay from their woodblock print exhibtion titled Ukiyo-e: Pictures of the Floating World. A short essay on differnt themes within Japanese woodbock prints

Woodblock Printing; A short video featuing Keizaburo Matsuzaki printing a Edo Period style woodblock print. This video explains the process and procession involded in hand printing. 

Glossary - a glossy of many woodblock terms; includes many literary terms as well

Further Reading

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Nagasaki and Yokohama Prints from the Richard Gump Collection. Dai Nippon Printing, 1981.

Burglind. Jungmann. Painters as Envoys : Korean Inspiration in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Nanga. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.

Kanagawa Kenritsu Hakubutsukan, and Walters Art Gallery. International Exchange Exhibition : Japan and the West in Japanese Prints, 24 Jan.-21 Feb. 1982, the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. Yokohama Japan: Kanagawa Prefectural International Exchange Executive Committee, 1982.

Marks, Andreas, and Sonya Rhie Quintanilla. Dreams & Diversions : Essays on Japanese Woodblock Prints from the San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, Calif: San Diego Museum of Art ; Seattle, WA, 2010.

Meech, Julia. The World of the Meiji Print : Impressions of a New Civilization. 1st ed. New York: Weatherhill, 1986. Nishiyama, Matsunosuke. Edo Culture Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600-1868.

University of Hawaiì Press, 1997. Yokohama-shi. Collection of Historical Materials Relating to Yokohama. Published in Commemoration of the 70th Anniversally [sic] of the Opening of Yokohama Port. Tokyo, Toppan PrintCo, 1928.

Yonemura, Ann. Yokohama : Prints from Nineteenth-Century Japan. Washington, DC: Arthur MSackler Gallery, 1990.