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.

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.

Chinese New Year woodblock prints, or nianhua, flourished hundreds of years ago. /CGTN Gusu woodblock prints like this flourished hundreds of years ago in China. /CGTN Details of Japanese ukiyo-e ...

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 ...

Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860 is a landmark exhibition of 140 masterworks of Japanese ukiyo-e, from commercially released prints of iconic images by ...

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 ...

Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), the first internationally recognized Japanese artist, is the subject of a superb MFA show of paintings, woodblock prints, and illustrated printed books.

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 ...

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 ...