Japanese Woodblock Print Masters

He is considered the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan.

Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎; c. 31 October 1760-10 May 1849) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker.

Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川 広重) or Andō Hiroshige (安藤 広重), born Andō Tokutarō (安藤 徳太郎; 1797-12 October 1858), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition.

He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of beautiful women" of the 1790s.

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725-8 July 1770) was a Japanese designer of woodblock print art in the ukiyo-e style.

Tōshūsai Sharaku (東洲斎 写楽; Japanese pronunciation: [toː.ɕɯꜜː.sai | ɕaꜜ.ɾa.kɯ], fl. 1794-1795) was a Japanese ukiyo-e print designer, known for his portraits of kabuki actors.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese: 歌川 国芳, [ɯ̟ta̠ɡa̠β̞a̠ kɯ̟ɲ̟iꜜjo̞ɕi]; 1 January 1798-14 April 1861) was one of the last great masters of the Japanese ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting.

Yoshitoshi has widely been recognized as the last great master of the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock printing and painting.

He was a prominent designer of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement, whose artists depicted traditional subjects with a style influenced by yōga (Western-style painting).

Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese: 鳥居 清長; 1752, June 28, 1815) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Torii school.

Shikō Munakata (棟方 志功, Munakata Shikō; September 5, 1903, September 13, 1975) was a woodblock printmaker active in Shōwa period Japan.

He was unusual for an ukiyo-e artist, as he was based in the imperial capital of Kyoto.