The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art debuted “Bird and Blossom,” an exhibition of woodblock prints depicting simple ...

A walking tour of the Kiso Valley offers glimpses of the golden age of Japan’s great printmakers ... Sipping my cold brew, I studied the woodblock version of the town. Nothing I could see ...

What would it feel like to be inside of this artwork? Image credit: Utagawa Kuniaki II, 1835 - 1888 (Japanese), Ōzumō Keiko no zu [Professional Sumo Wrestlers Practicing], 1866, woodcut on paper, 13 3 ...

Hokusai used a type of printing called woodblock printing. Woodblock printing began in Japan and is one of the oldest types of printmaking. In woodblock prints, the design is cut or carved into a ...

The man was Shiko Munakata (1903-1975), an iconic “hanga” (woodblock print) artist who was born ... on and insights into contemporary Japan and its culture.

In Japan, that form has three legs ... of me and show it to people," and disappeared back into the sea. A woodblock print from 1846. It is the only known news sheet to report a sighting of ...

Simply type in whatever comes to mind and the program will churn out a woodblock print. “I would like the ... technology engineer and classical Japanese literature scholar.

There are two figures. One is feminine, the other is masculine. The masculine figure seems to be farther away because he is much smaller and higher in the image. The feminine figure takes up about a ...