The great Japanese woodblock prints by the artists Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige are so influential, and so beautiful, you never need any excuse to see them. "Japanese Impressions" at ...

Making Japanese woodblock prints usually involves a team of people: The artist, who creates the design in black ink, on a very thin sheet of washi, traditional Japanese paper; ...

During the Edo period in Japan (1615-1857), woodblock printing was a common and popular art form. The Japanese took the Buddhist idea of ukiyo, or "the floating world," and interpreted the notion of ...

Japan awakens : woodblock prints of the Meiji Period (1868-1912) / Barry Till Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. Object ... Glorifying war ; Prints used to illustrate newspapers, magazines & novels - ...

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, ...

Exploring Nature in Japanese Prints ... In the 1830s, when it was made, a woodblock print in Edo—now Tokyo—cost roughly the same as a bowl of noodles.

Woodblock Prints Exhibition of Paul Jacoulet. Art; Monday 29 May 2023. Share. ... Shin-hanga, translated as 'new prints', emerged in Japan between the Taisho (1912-1926) and Showa ...

Yōkai: Scenes of the Supernatural in Japanese Woodblock Prints is organized by Scripps College in Claremont, California, with additional works organized by Asia Society Texas for the Houston ...

Japanese publisher Hanzō is keeping the ukiyo-e tradition alive with unique reinterpretations of traditional woodblock prints that feature popular characters like Doraemon, Crayon Shinchan, and ...

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 ...

An earthquake in 1923 destroyed a lot of Japanese art. “Although prints from the series presumably would not have been in Watanabe’s inventory at the time of the Great Kanto Earthquake on ...