A walking tour of the Kiso Valley offers glimpses of the golden age of Japan’s great printmakers. In the 1830s, at the tail ...

An underappreciated ukiyo-e master is the focus of the largest-ever retrospective of his work in Japan, marking the 190th ...

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 ...

Lucasfilm has fully unveiled the set of 17 prints that will bedeck the various badges for this year's big Star Wars ...

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

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.

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 ...

At the height of a measles pandemic in 1862, a genre of ukiyo-e woodblock prints known as “hashika-e” (literally, measles pictures) disseminated a mountain of gossip and hearsay. One bit of ...

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.

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 ...

The exhibition, tucked into a downtown shopping mall, invites patrons to step into scenes of nature and village life depicted by the master of Edo Period woodblock ... known as ukiyo-e to new ...