KYOTO--Featuring erotic works created by some of the most celebrated ukiyo-e artists, the Hosomi Museum here is hosting its ...

Not seen together since 1879, the significant triptych painting by the legendary Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro will be reunited in “Inventing Utamaro: A Japanese Masterpiece Rediscovered” at the ...

“Inventing Utamaro: A Japanese Masterpiece Rediscovered” reunites for the first time in nearly 140 years three works by the legendary Japanese ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”) master, ...

JULIE NELSON DAVIS Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007. 296 pp.; 66 color ills., 1 14 b/w. $65.00 Woodcut prints and illustrated books by the Japanese artist ...

The great print works of ukiyo-e, by the likes of Hokusai, Hiroshige, and Utamaro, became fine art almost by accident. Originally mass produced for the popular market, their status was roughly ...

Utamaro comes to Manila and—what do you know?—it has to be in a children’s museum. We did a double-take on learning such adult art as his found its way to such venue. Sample this art form in the ...

Japanese woodblock prints had a major influence on the development of European modern painting. Ukiyo-e continue to be extremely popular around the world, but few people know much about the original ...

An exhibition of ukiyo-e (traditional Japanese woodcut prints) from the collection of the Japan Foundation, Manila opens on July 17, Wednesday at the Museo Pambata featuring 26 reproductions of works ...

Glimpses into the Floating World: The History of Ukiyo-E is based on the Museum's varied holdings of Japanese works on paper and focuses on the popular woodblock prints produced between the 17th and ...

In the time of Japan’s last feudal military government, ruled by the Tokugawa clan from 1603 to 1867, the government licensed “pleasure quarters,” where courtesans practiced prostitution and geishas ...