Defining the 19th century of Japan, the Edo and Meiji periods gave birth to the woodblock print movement, ukiyo-e. This style was defined by its “floating world” subject matter, which focused on ...

The British Museum’s exhibition on the Japanese master printmaker Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) will include Van Gogh’s own ...

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 ...

Landscape in Blue, color woodblock print with embossing on paper, by Yoshida Chizuko, 1972. The print is one of at least 30 works in the new exhibition. © Chizuko ...

Interviews with former colleagues and friends reveal that his lifelong love of the art form had its origins ... and the third was a Japanese woodblock print. "I was very surprised," Sculley ...

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 ...

in art. A design, usually a picture or words ... (after Hiroshige)' in 1887 to show what he admired in Japanese woodblock prints. In prehistoric times, humans made a type of print by using ...