Each pair shows a distinct era of Japanese woodblock prints: ukiyo-e from the 1800s; ukiyo-e from the early 20th century; and woodcut prints after World War II.

Icons Exploring Nature in Japanese Prints A new exhibition at Oregon’s Portland Art Museum shows how a cheap, popular art form produced enduring masterpieces Maki Haku, ‘Fuji san-12’ (1989).

View Two woodblock prints Showa period, 20th century by Koitsu Tsuchiya on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by Koitsu Tsuchiya.

See the Groundbreaking Work of 20th-Century Printmakers Who Formed an Innovative Arts Society in Japan The sosaku hanga movement, now explored in an exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art ...

Ahead of TEFAF Maastricht, Tamio Ikeda, of the Paris gallery Tanakaya, shares the complex history behind the woodblock print, and how mutual admiration may have saved it.

The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido is the best-known work of the great 19th century Japanese woodblock artist Utagawa Hiroshige. The series of 53 masterful woodblock prints depicts stops along ...

Yoshida’s print is one of several by women, whose emergence as artists was another development new to 20th-century Japan.

View Spring Evening at the Kintai Bridge Kintaikyo no shunsho Showa period, 20th century by Hasui Kawase on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by Hasui Kawase.

Why Images of Ghosts Have Endured in Japan for Centuries A new exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art displays haunting, colorful woodblock prints ...

Later woodblock prints reveal that landscape continued to play a pivotal role in the lives and identity of Japanese people into the 20th century.

The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art debuted “Bird and Blossom,” an exhibition of woodblock prints depicting simple relationships in the natural world, on Jan. 24. Curated by Eleanor Pschirrer-West, ...

After their chance meeting, Onchi mentored Yamaguchi. Both were core members of the Ichimokukai, or First Thursday Society—an organization of woodblock printmakers, led by Onchi, who convened on ...