Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the most prolific and popular Ukiyo-e artists in Japan. The word Ukiyo-e means ...

Visitors can step back in time to Japan's samurai era in an new Tokyo exhibition that uses cutting-edge technology to bring ...

but that is not stopping it from showing off its incredible ukiyo-e woodblock prints. The prefectural museum boasts 3,000 or so ukiyo-e works, and they can be viewed on a special website (https ...

Through 140 masterworks of paintings, woodblock prints, and books ... its activities and the native landscape. Though ukiyo-e prints first captured the attention of the Western world––and there is no ...

Is there an upcoming ukiyo-e artist adding a 21st-century ... Simply type in whatever comes to mind and the program will churn out a woodblock print. “I would like the general public to come ...

after the old-fashioned method of the colored lithograph -- those prints namely which are best known in America and Europe -- belong to the popular and democratic section of the art of Nippon.

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Prints, in the ukiyo (floating world) style, depict everyday life and pastimes of early 19th-century Japan’s prosperous urban dwellers. Prints are not framed, and borrowers must agree to standards of ...

John Sculley, former CEO of Apple The shin-hanga print in Job's bedroom ... Shin-hanga is a 20th-century take on ukiyo-e, an older form of Japanese woodblock printing, that evolved as artists ...

High-Tech Spin for Samurai-Era Ukiyo-E ... of Edo Period woodblock art. Technical wizardry from digital imagery firm Ars Techne reproduces the washi paper texture of his prints.