Visitors can step back in time to Japan's samurai era in an new Tokyo exhibition that uses cutting-edge technology to bring ...

Given that ukiyo-e are largely defined by using woodblocks ... of dark blue checked off more requirements typical of woodblock prints. Evo-Ukiyoe is also able to tap into the genre’s ambience ...

A vibrant center of cultural and political life, the city’s most famous, lion-bookended research library houses millions of collections that span the blockbuster (Thoma ...

The popular store is filled with various collections of Japanese books, including literature from the Edo Period (1603-1868), ukiyo-e prints, old maps, and materials related to “yokai” monsters.

That meant their prints usually had two or three times as many layers as ukiyo-e works. Because of the considerable energy and labor that went into the production of shin-hanga works, each piece ...

He is a member of the Ukiyo-e Dealers Association of Japan ... Discussion at The Asian Art Museum titled Japanese Woodblock Prints: From Classical To Modern. He recently discussed Shin Hanga ...

Hokusai and Ukiyo-e: The Floating World will feature paintings and woodblock prints from the Edo Period in Japan, one of the most recognizable of which is Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Kanagawa." ...

The shin-hanga movement started in the early 20th century as a domestic effort to revive the ukiyo-e tradition of woodblock prints and painting. But it was overseas that these pieces, which mostly ...