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 ...

5 Stars of Ukiyo-e Artists: Utamaro, Sharaku, Hokusai, Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi Art Ueno Royal Museum, Ueno Until 6 Jul 2025 Tuesday 3 June 2025 Written by Sébastien Raineri ...

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 ...

An exhibit of ukiyo-e depicting Japan’s tumultuous period of modernization, spanning the late Edo period and the early Meiji, is running through May at the National Museum of Japanese History in ...

UTAMARO AND THE SPECTACLE OF BEAUTY by Julie Nelson Davis. London: Reaktion Books, 2008, 269 pp., 114 illustrations, 66 color plates. £35 (cloth) Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806) is widely known as ...

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 ...

“Ukiyo-e: Art and Tradition” is part of the Japan Foundation, Manila’s participation in the Philippine-Japan Friendship Month and in the 40th year of the ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation.

140 classical sets of ukiyo-e pieces are on show at the China Millennium Monument in Beijing until June 5. [Photo provided to China Daily] To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the normalization of ...