“Bird and Blossom” highlights the evolution of prints in Japan from the Edo and Meiji eras into the twentieth century. Defining the 19th century of Japan, the Edo and Meiji periods gave birth to the ...

The style of Japanese woodblock printing known as ukiyo-e (‘images of the floating world’) flourished during the Edo period ...

What would it feel like to be inside of this artwork? Image credit: Utagawa Kuniaki II, 1835 - 1888 (Japanese), Ōzumō Keiko no zu [Professional Sumo Wrestlers Practicing], 1866, woodcut on paper, 13 3 ...

A walking tour of the Kiso Valley offers glimpses of the golden age of Japan’s great printmakers ... line up one of Eisen’s or Hiroshige’s prints with the real thing. In Hiroshige’s ...

Tech icon Steve Jobs was fascinated by Japanese culture, and was particularly passionate about shin-hanga woodblock prints. Interviews with former colleagues and friends reveal that his lifelong ...

He was also a member of a Roundtable Discussion at The Asian Art Museum titled Japanese Woodblock Prints: From Classical To Modern. He recently discussed Shin Hanga and Sosaku Hanga prints at a ...

The British Museum’s exhibition on the Japanese master printmaker Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) will include Van Gogh’s own ...

Floating world: Hiroshige’s Seba from The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Highway (1830s) - The Trustees of the British Museum ...

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This print has two names: 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa' and 'The Great Wave'. Hokusai used a type of printing called woodblock printing. Woodblock printing began in Japan and is one of the oldest ...