Find out more about what this space is all about here. These woodblock prints, produced in Japan in the late 19 th century, represent battles with the diseases of cholera and smallpox.

His 1874 woodblock print “School for Spooks, No.3,” from the series “Drawings for Pleasure,” shows a swarm of slimy, green demons squeezed into tiny desks and awkward-fitting Western ...

In the 1820s, the ink of the woodblock prints and that of tattoos on skin began to influence one another. They shared the popular imagery of dragons, demons and monsters, as well as allusions to ...

Japanese woodblock prints of the postwar era in Japan are the subject of the first exhibition curated by Dr. Rhiannon Paget, curator for Asian art, in the newly renamed Chao Center for Asian Art ...

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.

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 ...

Japanese Woodblock Prints (1680-1938), by Andreas Marks.622 pagesTASCHEN, Art. Without much apparent effort, he churned sketches by the hundreds, for books or single-sheet woodblock prints.

Apple’s wave emoji is a popular choice among iPhone users, but perhaps even more popular is the woodblock print that serves as the origin of the emoji, Hokusai’s “Great Wave.” The Museum of Fine Arts ...

Return to the Edo period during filmed presentations at the University of Washington on Nov. 1-2, and explore the traditional Ukiyo-e woodblock prints that have become one of the island nation’s ...

If you go "Japanese Impressions: Color Woodblock Prints from the Rodbell Family Collection" Where: The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass. When: Through April 2 Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m ...