Japanese woodblock prints - ukiyo-e

Artist: Utahan’s Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)
Dated 1850
Originally published in book form by Tsujiokata Bunsuke, in operation 1818-96 in the Nihonbashi and Ryogoku districts of Edo and Tokyo.

Utagawa Kunisada II (1823–1880)
Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki Shikibu, from a set of 54, 1850s

Signed Baichôrô Kunisada ga, in toshidama cartouches 梅蝶楼国貞画(年玉枠), No. 3, Utsusemi, from the series Lady Murasaki's Genji Cards (Murasaki Shikibu Genji karuta) 「紫式部げんじかるた　空蝉　三」, 1857; censor seal 改、巳正 Aratame, Snake 1, i.e., (Ansei 4), 1st month, 1857

Utagawa Kunisada II (1823–1880)
Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki Shikibu, another from a set of 54, 1850s

(signed, Baichôrô Kunisada ga, in toshidama cartouches 梅蝶楼国貞画(年玉枠)], No. 21, Otome, from the series Lady Murasaki's Genji Cards (Murasaki Shikibu Genji karuta) 「紫式部げんじかるた　乙女　廿一」, 1857; censor seal, 改、巳正 Aratame, Snake 1, January 1857)

Two 20thC woodblock prints from originals by Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806).

First = Woman Reading a Letter, from the series Ten Classes of Women's Physiognomy (Fujo ninso juppin 婦女人相十品) (Fumi yomu onna), 1792-93

Second = Okita, Bijin at the Mirror

Totoya Hokkei (1780–1850).
Titled 'Beauty with Boy and Kite'. Also called 'Then New Year's Kite'
Meiji-era (1890s) copy of an Edo-period (1820s) design

Signed as 北舟, which is false signature of Hokusai 北斎. The print is after Totoya Hokkei (1780–1850), falsely attributed to Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849).

Glued onto card

Shunshō Katsukawa (1726-1792)

Titled: Osen of the Kagiya
Late 19thC copy?

Late 19thC chirimen-e (crepe picture), artist unknown

Titled: Tōkyō Meisho Mukōjima, "Famous places in Tokyo: Mukōjima (riverbank across the Sumida River)"

Publication date of the original woodblock prints = early 1870s. The publisher is 伊勢辰 堀江貳 Ise Tatsu, which is the seal name of Iseya Tatsugorō 伊勢辰五郎, who opened his publishing store in 堀江 貳, Horie, ni, ie., Edo, Nihonbashi Horiechō Nichōme, ca. 1861. His store changed addresses two times and closed in 1927 in Taitō-ku Yanaka Nichōme, not far from the Ueo Park.

Small woodblock print, Slightly under 16cm high x 11cm wide.
Translated on a Japanese site:

By Takehisa Yumemji (竹久 夢二, 1884-1934).
The inscription in part reads: 平成廿？年七月吉日 Heisei 2? year, July auspicious day
摺手 surite (printer)　直太郎 Na'otarō
池田 文雄 Ikeda Fumio
松の？ Pine ? (a new year's theme)
リユコ? Ryuko? (the seal on the lower right).

Kuwagata Keisai (1764-1824)
Craftsmen at work, Edo period C19th

Koson Ohara (1877-1945), c.1910 Racoon dog and last quarter moon

Hasegawa Sadanobu I (1809-1879)
Triptych, showing actors Nakamura Tomijuro II as the servant Ohatsu (middle). Mimasu Gennosuke I as Churo Onoe (left). Bandô Jutarô I as Tsubone Iwafuji (right).  

Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806) c.1799 although all the examples I've seen have verse in the clouds in the top right hand corner.
Tending the Newly Hatched Silk Worms (1st in a set of 12)

Sadamasu (aka Kunimasu)
Samurai, mid to late 1800s  

Unknown

Utagawa Yoshitora (1836 - 1880), Edo, 1846-1848
Title: Three Women with Sails and Cherry Blossoms. Left sheet from the triptych

Possibly by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi) from the series Genji gumo ukiyoe awase
Late Edo Period (1847-1871)

Artist: Kunichika (1835-1900)
Title: The Kabuki actor Kawarasaki Gonnosuke in the role of Hanakawato Sukeroku

Katsushika Hokusai, from his views of Fuji series




Set of 4 c.1970s