The process of woodblock printing is tedious and difficult, and the Japanese prints are masterful specimens of the elusive ... In "Young Couple Lighting Pipes beside the Sleeping Dragon Plum Tree" ...

A colorful dragon thrashing ... Translation: 19th-century Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) are credited for today’s pictorial tats. “Tattoos in Japanese Prints” features nearly 80 ...

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 ...

In the 1830s, when it was made, a woodblock print in Edo—now Tokyo ... “Human / Nature: 150 Years of Japanese Landscape Prints,” a new exhibition opening on Dec. 3 at the Portland Art ...

The exhibit is titled, Japanese Prints in Transition, From the Floating World to the Modern World. And curator Lauren Palmor says the discipline required to make the woodblock prints is the magic ...

GUEST: My guess is it wasn't over ten dollars. APPRAISER: These are both original Japanese woodblock prints. It was likely around six or seven cherry woodblocks that were carved out by hand to ...

Join Asia Society Texas to celebrate our newest exhibition Yōkai: Scenes of the Supernatural in Japanese Woodblock Prints. Over the next few months, the gallery will be home to famous yōkai: ...

Ukiyo-e (images of the floating world) was a genre of Japanese woodblock prints that first interested me in Japanese art. Two of these well-known print artists were Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849 ...

It specializes in original woodblock prints, paintings, and antique items from Japan. “It all began some 40 years ago with the creation of my personal collection of Japanese prints,” Tamio Ike ...