OTHER WEBSITES DEDICATED TO INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS
Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
Kuniyoshi Project
The Art of Ogata Gekko
The Kunisada Project
Tsuchiya Koitsu - His Complete Works
Essential Vermeer
Vincent Van Gogh Gallery
William Blake Archive
Rembrandt
HIROSHIGE AND JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS
A Guide to the Ukiyo-e Sites of the Internet is an almost exhaustive collection of links to Ukiyo-e sites on the internet. If you want to find out more about Japanese prints then this is the place to start.
The homepage of J. Noel
Chiappa contains some excellent material on Hiroshige and
Japanese woodblock prints in general.
The Production of Japanese Woodblock Prints
The
Development of the Woodblock Printing Process
Painting
Schools and Art-Names (Go)
Glossary
of Woodblock Print Terms
Woodblock
Print Artists' Biographies
Beginning
Woodblock Collector's Bibliography
Print
Series of Ando Hiroshige in Edward Strange
Utagawa
Kunisada Print Series Cross-Reference
Date
Seals and the Japanese Calendar
Zodiacal
Calendar Date Seals
Nanushi
Censor Seals
Utagawa
Kunisada Print Series Cross-Reference
Print
Series of Ando Hiroshige in Edward Strange
Print
Series of Ando Hiroshige in Van Vleck
The Kunisada Project Hiroshige collaborated with Kunisada (Toyokuni III) on a number of series of prints. The site also has the names of many Ukiyoe artists in Japanese characters which are essential when searching Japanese websites.
If you don't know the language use Google Language Tools or Yahoo Babelfish to view Japanese websites. Type in a URL, choose Japanese to English (or whatever) and press 'translate' to get the website translated into a form of English. Not quite English as we know it but it's enough to give you a reasonable idea of what's going on.
Tokaido hitoritabi (Japanese language) A modern day walk along the route of the Tokaido highway. The site features Hiroshige's Tokaido print (Hoeido edition) of each station and photographs of the places as they are now. Click here to go via Yahoo BabelFish and have it translated into something like English.
Handbook of Japanese Printmaking Techniques
SITES THAT LINK INTO THIS SITE ARE...
A Guide to the Ukiyo-e Sites of the Internet which has the most comprehensive English language set of Ukiyoe links on the net.
Artelino who auction prints and have lots of useful information about Japanese print artists.
Milano Aoyama who has **lots** of links (in Japanese).
J Noel Chippa who has lots of useful information on Japanese Woodblock printing and Hiroshige.