Colorful 19th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints Depict the Fight Against Contagion ... The University of California at San Francisco has a large collection of woodblock prints produced in this period.

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 ...

Many of the ‘Shank’s Mare Tokaido’ prints contain references to earlier pictorial representations of the road, especially the woodblock prints of Utagawa Hiroshige who produced close to a thousand ...

“Human / Nature: 150 Years of Japanese Landscape Prints,” a new exhibition opening on Dec. 3 at the Portland Art Museum in Oregon, presents some 70 of these works, from 19th-century classics ...

Defining the 19th century of Japan, the Edo and Meiji periods gave birth to the woodblock print movement, ukiyo-e. This style was defined by its “floating world” subject matter, which focused on ...

One of the most-told stories about 19th-century art recounts how prints from Japan, suddenly available in the West after the country was wrenched open in the 1850s, profoundly altered European ...

View Two woodblock prints from Pictures of Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces Rokujuyoshi meisho zue, ... Two woodblock prints from: Pictures of Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces ...

This 19th-century Japanese screen of the Floating World, at Harvard Art Museums, depicts Tokyo’s notorious pleasure district, ... He mostly designed books and woodblock prints.

Making Japanese woodblock prints usually involves a team of people: ... Mr. Ikeda noted that in Europe, particularly in Paris, it is possible to find very good 18th- and 19th-century prints, ...

Selected from the Portland Art Museum’s permanent collection, the exhibition “Human|Nature: 150 Years of Japanese Prints” explores Japan’s journey with and through nature during the 19th ...

The master of Japanese prints is admired for exquisite views of his homeland, ... Thanks to the medium of mass-produced woodblock prints, ... towards the end of the 19th century, ...

The Ghost of a Fisherman, Tsukioka Kogyo, woodblock print, 1899 National Museum of Asian Art. Oiwa’s husband wanted to remarry his rich neighbor, but his wife was still very much alive. He first ...