Pictures of the Floating World - National Gallery of Victoria (Australia)
Education resource that accompanies the exhibition Pictures of the Floating World (2005) which presented more than 100 Japanese woodblock prints from the NGV’s collection. This resource features an interactive animation that allows students to create their own stories using the characters and backgrounds of the Pictures of the Floating World. It also provides background information on the Ukiyo-e art form and the heroic and supernatural characters it depicted. This could work well on an interactive whiteboard. You need an email account to save the story.
Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire - PBS
This was a 3-part program that aired in 2006, covering the 16th to the 19th century. The website contains previews of the episodes, various interactive elements, and other features. Some of the more interesting parts are below.
Fling the Teacher - Japanese History Quiz
You must answer 15 questions correctly to "fling" the teacher. Sort of amusing.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The MFA has the largest collection of Japanese prints outside of Japan and many other important examples of Japanese and Asian art
National Museum of Japanese History Web Gallery
Views of Decorative Folding Screens of Kyoto, Edo (Tokyo) and Edo Castle
History.com Short videos
Note: all have a 30 second commercial at the beginning
Ukiyo-e Techniques - from Wesleyan University
This site is intended to help students, collectors and researchers better understand the Ukiyo-e technique. Taking the Davison Art Center Collection of 18th and 19th century Japanese prints as its starting point, the site focuses on techniques utilized in prints from the collection, and is not meant to be a survey of Japanese prints or a history of Ukiyo-e. Photographs and video clips show demonstrations of the techniques by master printmaker Keiji Shinohara. These demonstrations are accompanied by traditional prints from the DAC collection, and contemporary prints by Keiji Shinohara.
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem - Japanese Art
Contributions from many of America's most important 19th- and 20th-century collectors of Japanese art illuminate the varied the art and culture of Japan. Originating with the museum's inception in 1799, the collection contains many works considered rare even in Japan, with the late Edo- and Meiji-period collection ranking among the finest in the world.