Shibusawa Ei'ichi Memoial Foundation/Resource Center for the History of Entrepreneurship

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Company History(Shashi) Project
Woodblock Print(Nishiki-e) Project
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* Collections Guide
Outline of the Woodblock Print (Nishiki-e) Project

Nishiki-e

Nishiki-e, woodblock prints in full color, were a widely available visual medium before the advent of the photograph. In the mid-18th century, when many foreign goods were imported and modern institutions widely established, nishiki-e were published prolifically to report these novel things. This project aims to organize information on nishiki-e depicting industrial scenes so that the information can be utilized for research on the modernization of society.

Woodblock prints collected for the Museum of Japanese Business History by Keizo Shibusawa are now housed at the National Institute of Japanese Literature. A catalog in Japanese is available online.

An essay about the core prints is also available online.


Image Index(ebiki) Collections Guide
Observe modernization and industrialization through nishiki-e Major collections of nishiki-e of industrial scenes
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