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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...