While not the only movements happening within the genre of printmaking at the time, shin-hanga (new prints) and sōsaku-hanga (creative prints) were two radically different schools of thought about how ...

Exhibition from February 29, 2016 through May 6, 2016. The Drexel Collection houses nearly 200 19th-century Japanese woodblock prints, also known as Ukiyo-e, a popular technique and genre of woodblock ...

Part of the appeal of the 19th-century woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e (“floating world pictures”) is that their subject ...

Yamanoha studied woodblock printing in Kyoto, Japan, on a Monbusho (Japan Government) scholarship between 1988-90. He lives in Volcano Village and runs Volcano Gravel.

Kitagawa Utamaro I, Onitsutaya u2028Azamino and Gontarō, a Man of the World, from the series True Feelings Compared: The Founts of Love, circa 1798-99, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, 15 ...

Tokyo in Transition: Woodblock Prints Cast an Ambiguous Light on Japan’s Modernization A collection of works by the great Eastern modernist Kobayashi Kiyochika are on view at the Arthur M ...

And her long involvement with Japanese art has produced two books which are the standard works in English: Japanese Woodblock Printing (2001) and Japanese Popular Prints (2006), both published by A&C ...

About This Lot In Yoshitomo Nara's 1999 series In a Floating World, the artist utilizes the traditional genre of Ukiyo-e, which literally means "pictures of the floating world." Ukiyo-e describes the ...

Woodblock printing requires carving out an image on a wood block, in the opposite direction of what you’d like it to look like when it’s printed. Want to see her art? The show opens 5-7 p.m ...