During the Edo period in Japan (1615-1857), woodblock printing was a common and popular art form. The Japanese took the Buddhist idea of ukiyo, or "the floating world," and interpreted the notion of ...

Events Gaze at “Tattoos in Japanese Prints” at the MFA “Tattoos in Japanese Prints” features nearly 80 works by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, a great ukiyo-e master, and his contemporaries.

The great Japanese woodblock prints by the artists Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige are so influential, and so beautiful, you never need any excuse to see them. "Japanese Impressions" at ...

Japanese woodblock prints of the Edo period (1615-1868) were the products of a highly commercialised and competitive publishing industry. Their content was inspired by the vibrant popular culture that ...

Exploring Nature in Japanese Prints A new exhibition at Oregon’s Portland Art Museum shows how a cheap, popular art form produced enduring masterpieces Maki Haku, ‘Fuji san-12’ (1989).

Appraisal: Kawase Hasui Japanese Woodblock Prints, ca. 1922 In Junk in the Trunk 14, Lark Mason III appraises Kawase Hasui Japanese woodblock prints, ca. 1922. Aired 10/03/2024 | Rating TV-G ...

Yōkai: Scenes of the Supernatural in Japanese Woodblock Prints is organized by Scripps College in Claremont, California, with additional works organized by Asia Society Texas for the Houston ...

Wave tattoos are inspired by traditional Japanese woodblock prints, symbolizing the power of nature and the flow of life. 6. ...

The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art debuted “Bird and Blossom,” an exhibition of woodblock prints depicting simple relationships in the natural world, on Jan. 24. Curated by Eleanor Pschirrer-West, ...

Making Japanese woodblock prints usually involves a team of people: The artist, who creates the design in black ink, on a very thin sheet of washi, traditional Japanese paper; the engraver, who ...