Utamaro was renowned for his bijinga woodblock prints, depicting beautiful women of his day, and other artworks that won the hearts of the people of Edo (now Tokyo).

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Shigeo Nagashima, one of the greatest and most beloved players in Japanese baseball history, has died at the age of 89. Nagashima's death was confirmed by the Yomiuri Giants, the Nippon ...

Japanese publisher Hanzō is keeping the ukiyo-e tradition alive with unique reinterpretations of traditional woodblock prints that feature popular characters like Doraemon, Crayon Shinchan, and ...

Buddhist woodblock prints from the 19th century are revived for Vesak 2025, drawing large crowds in Ho Chi Minh City.

Part of that culture stretches back more than 200-years. The original Japanese woodblock prints, that Kitamura uses for many of his tattoos, created by one of Japan's master artists, Utagawa ...

The American businessman Alan Medaugh, 81, has spent 50 years building up an unparalleled collection of woodblock prints by the famed Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858).

Japanese woodblock prints have been so popular, so pervasively influential and so widely reproduced over the past century and a half that it’s tempting to think that we know them quite as well ...

Japanese railway shelter replaced in less than 6 hours by 3D-printed model Custom-printed shelters could help fix up rural train stops faster.

See more than 35 Japanese prints — many on public view for the first time — at a new exhibition opening at the Worcester Art Museum called “Reflections of a Changing Japan: The Evolution of ...

Monet never traveled to Japan, but he loved the Japanese masters. He was inspired by woodblock prints called ukiyo-e —you might have heard them described as “floating world” images.