One of Japan’s highly regarded ukiyo-e, or floating world, artists, Kitagawa Utamaro (c. 1753-1806), is the subject of three successive shows centered on three unusual works: wall-size paintings ...

They knew their authence, they followed the market, and they effected a remarkable transformation of the Japanese print. After Utamaro, ukiyo-e continued to adapt, diough in figure prints it rarely ...

A veritable who’s who of ukiyo-e, the Ueno Royal Museum’s early-summer showcase shines the spotlight on the form’s most celebrated artists. Running until July 6 ...

In 2014, the Okada Museum of Art in Hakone, Japan, made an announcement that startled the art world: It had discovered a long-lost painting by Utamaro, “Snow at Fukagawa.” The trio, painted in ukiyo-e ...

An art museum in this west Japan city that houses about 6,000 ukiyo-e prints and two national treasures has appointed 10 ...

Kitagawa Utamaro depicted women so well, it was said, because he knew them so well. He was a scholar, a connoisseur and, of course, a lover of women. That’s how the Japanese artist (1753-1806 ...

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 prost… ...

The International Ukiyo-e Society (who knew?) celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2014, and now collaborates with the Edo-Tokyo Museum to bring us this special e. Go to the content Go to the footer.

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 ...