Search engine:
- Japanese Woodblock Print Search – a common interface for searching many of the largest online ukiyo-e collections of the world, designed by John Resig
- Ukiyo-e Signature Sample Database – developed by Alec Wood
General information:
- Viewing Japanese Prints – John Fiorillo’s encyclopedic articles on various aspects of ukiyo-e, shin-hanga and sosaku-hanga
General images:
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – probably the largest online collection of Japanese prints
- Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University – an image database with more than 46000 prints, Japanese text only
- National Diet Library: Rare Books Image Database – good images of thousands of ukiyo-e prints, Japanese text only
- Tokyo Metropolitan Library – an image database with more than 8000 prints, Japanese text only
- Ritsumeikan University Ukiyo-e Database – with more than 3000 excellent images of ukiyo-e prints – Japanese text (with partial search menu in English available)
- Database of Ukiyo-e held at the Library of Congress – images of more than 2,000 prints
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts – a database of almost 2,000 prints
Artist websites:
Chikanobu (1838-1912)
- Chikanobu and Yoshitoshi Woodblock Prints – an online exhibit from the Scripps College Collection of Japanese Prints, currently only with Chikanobu prints
- Yôshû Chikanobu – by Gary Gross
Gekko (1859-1920)
- Ogata Gekkô – Meiji Master – by David Humphries
Hiroshige (1797-1858)
- The Woodblock Prints of Ando Hiroshige – with an online display of several series by Hiroshige
- Hiroshige’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo – an online exhibition from the Brooklyn Museum
- Tôkaidô fûkei zue – Tôkaidô albums by Hiroshige from Keio University
Hokusai (1760-1849)
- Hokusai Museum, Obuse, Japan
- Hagi Uragami Museum – displaying several Hokusai albums
- 24 Views of Mount Fuji – Tim Eagen has collected images of the 24 Hokusai prints that are featured in a novella by Roger Zelazny
- Hokusai and Japanese Art – by Andreas Ramos
- Verhaal van een meesterwerk – De Grote Golf – a Dutch TV documentary about Hokusai’s Great Wave
Kunichika (1835-1900)
- Monika Hinkel: Toyohara Kunichika – a doctoral thesis, in German
- Toyohara Kunichika’s Ukiyo-e Prints – an image database of more than 1,700 actor prints
- Digital Museum for Toyohara Kunichika
Kunisada (1786-1864)
- Kunisada and Kabuki – a virtual gallery from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England
- Kunisada Project – Horst Graebner documenting lots of prints and series by the prolific artist
Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)
- The Kuniyoshi Project – by William Pearl
Kyôsai (1831-1889)
- Kawanabe Kyosai Memorial Museum – with only a few prints and drawings displayed online
Ota, Masamitsu (1892-1975)
- Masamitsu Ota website – focused on portraits of kabuki theater actors, by Serge Astieres
Osaka School
- Artist biographies and signature examples – compiled by John Fiorillo
- Articles – by Peter Ujlaki
- Nishiki-e ni miru Ôsaka no fûkei – landscape prints in Osaka Prefectural Library
- Kansai University: Hasegawa Sadanobu – a large display of prints by Sadanobu I, II and III
Rakusan, Tsuchiya
- Rakusan.net – by Dr Michael J P Nichols
Sharaku (?-?)
- Sharaku’s works – a comprehensive catalogue by Gordon Friese (based on Henderson & Ledoux) with references to available reproductions, text in German
Shotei
- All About Takahashi Shotei – a comprehensive guide by Marc Kahn
Sōzan, Itō
- Itō Sōzan catalog – a comprehensive guide by Mauro Novelli
Toyokuni (1769-1825)
Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
- Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi – by Noel Chiappa and Jason M Levine
- Sinister Designs: Yoshitoshi Tsukioka – with a number of good images
- Yoshitoshi’s Demons – an exhibit from Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Societies:
- The International Ukiyo-e Society – mostly Japanese text
- Japanese Art Society of America
- Society for Japanese Arts