Resources on Japanese Woodblock Prints
Web Resources
Adachi Institute of Woodblock Prints
Tokyo, Japan
Artist Marco Flavio Marinucci
AsiaAlive artist-in-residence December, 2004
Achenbach Graphic Arts Council
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco—Legion of Honor
415.750.3679
Library of Congress Exhibition of Ukiyo-e
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/ukiyo-e/
Educator Slide Packets
Available at the Museum's Resource Center open Tuesday–Sunday 12:30–4:30 pm.
"Hokusai and Hiroshige" (1998) (for loan only) This packet features the woodblock prints of these two famous Japanese woodblock artists. Provides an overview of the Edo period, during which woodblock prints became popular among the common people and a new genre of landscape prints developed in Japan. Focuses on famous places in Japan and on aspects of Edo-period society depicted in the prints.
"Arts of Edo Japan" (2000) Offers an examination of the Edo period (1615–1868), focusing on the flourishing arts of the period, inlcuding the tea ceremony.
Books
Many books on Japanese prints may be researched in the museum's Library, which is open to the public by appointment. For details about using the Library click here.
