Mon, August 19th 2024 at 10:36 AM Updated Mon, August 19th 2024 at 11:40 AM TOPICS: Japanese woodblock prints Gary Germer Antique collections Collect Interesting Fun Website Www.garygermer.com ...

An earthquake in 1923 destroyed a lot of Japanese art. “Although prints from the series presumably would not have been in Watanabe’s inventory at the time of the Great Kanto Earthquake on ...

Ukiyo-e, or Japanese woodblock prints, are all about the joys of everyday life of the Japanese commoners, their adoration for the feminine form, their enthusiasm for the theater, and their love ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — The curator of a new exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints is asking you to take deep look with him at two significant strains of artistic evolution taking place within the genre ...

Utagawa Yoshikazu. Americans Drawn from Life (Sho utsushi Amerikajin), 1861. Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourn. Western technology proved a consistent fascination to Japanese woodblock artists.

Ito Shinsui's woodblock print "Snowstorm" (1932) is a 20th-century update on a classic Japanese theme of beauty and nature. REVIEW Verne Collection What: The exhibition "Prints and Paintings from ...

Samurai, Ghosts and Lovers: Yoshitoshi's Complete 100 Aspects of the Moon, is on view Feb. 22 - Sept. 13, 2020, at the Dayton Art Institute.

Throughout Japanese cultural history, the boundary between the real world and the world of supernatural beings has been remarkably porous. Certain sites, states of mind, or periods in the lunar cycle ...

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.