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, ...

While many are familiar with traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock prints, modern woodblock art is far less known. Hajime Namiki is part of the post-war Sosaku-hanga ("creative prints") art movement.

Think of this modern ink, and you’re actually giving props to a long-ago artform that began on wood, not skin. Translation: 19th-century Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) are credited for ...

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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 exhibition also has a Japanese streetscape scene set during the Samuri time with recreations of Hokusai’s home, a woodblock print shop, tea shop and market, Martinez said.

The exhibit is titled, Japanese Prints in Transition, From the Floating World to the Modern World. And curator Lauren Palmor says the discipline required to make the woodblock prints is the magic ...

Many of the posters took the form of “ nishiki-e ”, or multicolored prints made from Japanese woodblock printing techniques, featuring angular lines and sharp hues.

Put together by the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, it is derived from the estate of businessman John Chandler Bancroft, which donated 3,700 Japanese woodblock prints to the museum in 1901.

One of the world’s most important contemporary Japanese print galleries lives in Cleveland. It stretches back seven decades.