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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — World-famous Japanese woodblock print artist Hokusai's art is on exhibit in Tokyo — on the license plates of scooters. The design, by a local student, blends old and new — the ...

Hokusai gained fame for his landscapes of Mt. Fuji, including “The Great Wave of Kanagawa,” but this collection reveals his genius for placing human figures in powerful natural settings. That skill is ...

The world’s most powerful passport just got a little bit more beautiful. Japan will start issuing passports featuring art by ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai for people applying from February 4.

See the set at this exhibition of the mutedly vibrant color woodblock prints, as well as pages from woodlock-printed books and the artist's preparatory drawings. Wednesday July 22 2015 ...

A few of the prints in Seattle Asian Art Museum's exhibition Fleeting Beauty are very well-known (for example, In the Well of the Wave off Kanagawa —Hokusai's towering, fingered wave tossing ...

College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn is celebrating Japan’s iconic Shogun era with a never-seen-in-the-U.S. art exhibit. “Hokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World, Artworks from the Chiossone Collectio… ...

Japanese Woodblock Prints in the Modern Age “A Way of Seeing,” at Japan Society, exhibits the work of Shikō Munakata, who applied a spontaneous, Expressionist approach to the art form.

Icons 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).