Japanese woodblock prints
Ukiyo-e
Floating-world prints from Edo Japan — Hokusai's waves, Hiroshige's rain, travellers on mountain roads. Flat blocks of colour, confident outlines, and weather you can feel.
As a puzzle
A joy to build. Bold flat colour areas and crisp black outlines give every piece a clear identity, and the graphic shapes make edges easy to read. Forgiving at high counts.
A good size here: 60–300 pieces.
10 pictures — pick one to build
Six Jewel Rivers from Various Provinces Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857 Wild Geese Flying under the Full Moon Utagawa Hiroshige, ca. 1833 The Suijin Temple Grove, Uchikawa, and the Village of Sekiya Utagawa Hiroshige, 8th month 1857 Night Rain at Karasaki, from the series Eight Views of Ōmi (Ōmi hakkei no uchi) Utagawa Hiroshige, ca. 1835 Water Scene Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1840 Sumo Wrestlers Kagamiiwa Hamanosuke and Koyanagi Tsunekichi, with Judge Sakaigawa Namiemon and Referee Shikimori Kiichirō Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1847–52 (Kōka 4–Kaei 5) Two Women Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1790 Mother and her Children in Front of a Freestanding Screen of a Chinese Lion Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿, 1786 Ichikawa Danjuro IV in the Role of Kagekiyo in the Play Enlightenment from a Series of Portraits of Danjūrō Utagawa Toyokuni II, ca. 1834 Ichikawa Danjūrō VII as Arajishi Otokonosuke Utagawa Kunisada, 1829