Traditional Japanese woodblock prints (mokuhanga) were, until the beginning of the last century, generally disdained as merely mass-produced commodities that were as likely to be used as wrapping ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — The curator of a new exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints is asking you to take deep look with him at two significant strains of artistic evolution taking place within the genre ...

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), c. 1850. (credit: Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art) In Hiroshige’s woodblock print, a scene from the masterpiece, Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido, ...

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 ...

Samurai, Ghosts and Lovers: Yoshitoshi's Complete 100 Aspects of the Moon, is on view Feb. 22 - Sept. 13, 2020, at the Dayton Art Institute.

Shin-hanga, translated as 'new prints', emerged in Japan between the Taisho (1912-1926) and Showa (1926-1989) eras as an innovative art movement that brought together artists, carvers and printers ...

The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art debuted “Bird and Blossom,” an exhibition of woodblock prints depicting simple relationships in the natural world, on Jan. 24. Curated by Eleanor Pschirrer-West, ...

Ahead of TEFAF Maastricht, Tamio Ikeda, of the Paris gallery Tanakaya, shares the complex history behind the woodblock print, and how mutual admiration may have saved it.

He has been a woodblock printmaker for nearly 40 years in Japan. His workshop is in Asakusa, Tokyo. He also uses social media to convey the charm of the Japanese traditional art.

ISLAMABAD: Japanese Ambassador Mitsuhiro Wada on Tuesday inaugurated the exhibition ‘Moku-Hanga, prints from Pakistan’ at the National Art Gallery, showcasing a unique fusion of traditional ...