The Floating World,” a multimedia extravaganza inspired by the art of 18th- and 19th-century Japan, is on view through ...

Organised by the Adachi Foundation for the Preservation of Woodcut Printing, the exhibition features works by 85 contemporary ... ukiyo-e has remained a vibrant, playful and resolutely modern art ...

Since the early 1970s, the Adachi Institute has been working on creating brand new ukiyo-e prints in collaboration with contemporary artists. Now, they are exhibiting the resulting 162 prints by ...

“Hokusai and Ukiyo-e: The Floating ... inspiring contemporary artists and illustrators.” The exhibition comes from a partnership with The Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art.

These prints show aspects of contemporary life and serve as Japanese culture ambassadors ... The Japanese were starting to produce and consume Western-style art in preference to traditional ukiyo-e ...

The College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn is celebrating Japan’s iconic Shogun era with a never-seen-in-the-U.S. art exhibit. “Hokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World, Artworks from the Chiossone ...

The ukiyo-e art style thus came to combine the visual lexicon of devout Buddhism with sensual subject matter including drinking, smoking, and sex, serving as a potent symbol of the movements’ joint ...

Splashed across the lid is a hand-laquered reproduction of The Great Wave off Kanagawa by the Japanese artist and printmaker Hokusai, a master of the ukiyo-e art style that dominated Japan from ...