Japanese printmaking, as with many other features of Japanese art, tended to organize itself into schools and movements. The most notable schools (see also schools of ukiyo-e artists) and, later, movements of moku-hanga were:

·       Torii school, from 1700

·       Kaigetsudō school, from 1700–14

·       Katsukawa school, from about 1720s, including the artists Shunsho and Shuntei

·       Kawamata school, from about 1725, including the artists Suzuki Harunobu and Koryusai

·       Hokusai school, from about 1786, including the artists Hokusai, Hokuei and Gakutei 

·       Kitagawa school, from about 1794, including the artists Utamaro I, Kikumaro I and II

·       Utagawa school, from 1842, including the artists Kunisada and Hiroshige

·       Sōsaku-hanga, "Creative Prints" movement, from 1904

·       Shin-hanga "New Prints" movement, from 1915, including Hasui Kawase and Hiroshi Yoshida