A walking tour of the Kiso Valley offers glimpses of the golden age of Japan’s great printmakers ... Sipping my cold brew, I studied the woodblock version of the town. Nothing I could see ...

Landscape in Blue, color woodblock print with embossing on paper ... etchings and lithographs pushed the boundaries of Japan’s long—and male-dominated—printmaking tradition.

What would it feel like to be inside of this artwork? Image credit: Utagawa Kuniaki II, 1835 - 1888 (Japanese), Ōzumō Keiko no zu [Professional Sumo Wrestlers Practicing], 1866, woodcut on paper, 13 3 ...

One was a photo of Einstein, another was a picture of Gandhi, and the third was a Japanese woodblock print. "I was very surprised," Sculley says. "I asked him, 'Is this what you like to do ...

The man was Shiko Munakata (1903-1975), an iconic “hanga” (woodblock print) artist who was born ... on and insights into contemporary Japan and its culture.

Nearly four centuries before Johannes Gutenberg produced the first Bible on a printing press ... then transferred the page to a wood block while the ink was still wet. Only then could the carver ...

There are two figures. One is feminine, the other is masculine. The masculine figure seems to be farther away because he is much smaller and higher in the image. The feminine figure takes up about a ...