Books on Japanese woodblock print artists


All the book images can be clicked (and then clicked again) to obtain a larger (and even larger) view of the book cover:

Hiroshige_1 Braziller, George (1986). Hiroshige. One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. New York: Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Kendall_Brown_book Brown, Kendall H. (2003, 2008). Kawase Hasui. The complete woodblock prints (2 volumes). Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing.
David_Bull_FirstChoice(1) Bull, David (2009). David’s Choice, Volume One. An invitation to a viewing of prints from the personal collection of Tokyo woodblock printmaker David Bull. Tokyo: Mokuhankan Publishing.

Note: This eBook can be obtained here.

Chiba_Harunobu_book Chiba City Museum of Art (2002). Suzuki Harunobu. Chiba: Chiba City Museum of Art and Hagi Uragami Museum.
Chiba_Harunobu_book Clark, Timothy, Nishimura Morse, Anne, and Virgin, Louise E., with Hockley, Allen (2002). The Dawn of the Floating World. Boston: Royal Academy of Arts.
Chiba_Harunobu_book Delay, Nelly (1993). L’estampe Japonaise. Editions Hazan.
Matthi_Forrer_Hokusai_book Forrer, Matthi (1991). Hokusai, Prints and Drawings. Munich: Prestel Verlag and Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Matthi_Forrer_Hiroshige_book Forrer, Matthi (1997). Hiroshige, Prints and Drawings. London: Royal Academy of Arts and Prestel Verlag.
Matthi_Forrer_Hokusai_2011 Forrer, Matthi (2010). Hokusai. Munich: Prestel Verlag.
Marije_Jansen_book Jansen, Marije (2004). Hiroshige’s journey in the 60-odd provinces. Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing.
Tadashi_Kobayashi_book Kobayashi, Tadashi (1993). Utamaro. Portraits from the Floating World. Tokyo: Kodansha International.
Tadashi_Kobayashi_book Kobayashi, Tadashi (1997). Ukiyo-e. An introduction to Japanese woodblock prints. Tokyo: Kodansha International.
Shinsui_book Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts et al, eds. (1996). Ito Shinsui. All the woodblock prints. Japan: S. Watanabe Color Print Company.
Merritt_Yamada_Guide_to_MJP Merritt, Helen, and Yamada, Nanako (1992). Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900 - 1975. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
Merritt_Yamada_Kuchi-e Merritt, Helen, and Yamada, Nanako (2000). Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints. Reflections of Meiji culture. University of Hawai’i Press.
Richard_Miles_Paul_Jacoulet Miles, Richard (1982). The prints of Paul Jacoulet. Pasadena: Pacific Asia Museum.
Seiji_Nagata_book Nagata, Seiji (1999). Hokusai. Genius of the Japanese Ukiyo-e. Tokyo: Kodansha International.
Muneshige_Narazaki_book_12 Narazaki, Muneshige, ed. (1988). Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections, Volume 12. The Berlin Oriental Art Museum. Tokyo: Kodansha International.
Muneshige_Narazaki_book_6 Narazaki, Muneshige, ed. (1989). Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections, Volume 6. The Guimet Museum in Paris. Tokyo: Kodansha International.
Muneshige_Narazaki_O_Muller Narazaki, Muneshige, ed. (1990). Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western collections. The Robert O. Muller Collection [Hizo ukiyoe taikan. Muraa-korekushon]. Tokyo: Kodansha International.
Muneshige_Narazaki_Sharaku Narazaki, Muneshige (1994). Sharaku. The Enigmatic Ukiyo-e Master. Tokyo: Kodansha International.
Newland_Uhlenbeck_book Newland, Amy, and Uhlenbeck, Chris, Eds. (1990). Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga. The Art of Japanese Woodblock Prints. New York: Mallard Press.
Newland_Shinji_book Newland, Amy Reigle, and Shinji, Hamanaka (2000). The female image. 20th century prints of Japanese beauties. Leiden: Hotei Publishing.
Newland_Uhlenbeck_Mirviss_book Newland, Amy Reigle, ed. (2004). Printed to Perfection. Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection. Leiden: Hotei Publishing, in association with Sackler Gallery/Smithsonian Institution.
The_Hotei_Encyclopedia_book Newland, Amy Reigle, ed. (2005). The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints (2 volumes). Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing.
Lawrence_Smith Smith, Lawrence (1994). Modern Japanese Prints 1912 - 1989. London: British Museum Press.
Amy_Stephens_book Stephens, Amy (1993). The New Wave: Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection. London: Bamboo Publishing.
Edward_Strange Strange, Edward F. (1904). Japanese Illustration. A history of the arts of wood-cutting and colour printing in Japan. London: George Bell and Sons.
Hiroshi_Yohida_Complete_Woodblock_Prints The Complete Woodblock Prints of Yoshida Hiroshi (1987). Tokyo: ABE Corporation.
Paul_Jacoulet_Rainbow_Colours The rainbow artist Paul Jacoulet (2003). Yokohama: The Yokohama Museum of Art.
Hiroshige_Trede Trede, Melanie, and Bichler, Lorenz (2010). Hiroshige: Meisho Edo hyakkei. Honderd beroemde aanzichten van Edo. (One hundred famous views of Edo.) Köln: Taschen.
La_Nouvelle_Vague Uhlenbeck, Chris, et Daulte, François (1994). La nouvelle vague. Estampes Japonaises de 1868 à 1939 dans la collection Robert O. Muller. Lausanne-Paris: Bibliothèques des Arts.

Note: This is the French abridged version of the famous 1993 New Wave book of Amy Stephens (see above).

Hiroshige_Shaping_The_Image Uhlenbeck, Chris, and Jansen, Marije (2008). Hiroshige. Shaping the Image of Japan. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV.
Visions_of_Japan_book Visions of Japan. Kawase Hasui’s Masterpieces (2004). Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing.
Yamada_Kuchi-e_book Yamada, Nanako (2005). Survey of Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints. Tokyo: Bunsei Shoin Booksellers Co., Ltd.