Centered on the extraordinary appeal of "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai, this exhibition offers a smartly ...

College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn is celebrating Japan’s iconic Shogun era with a never-seen-in-the-U.S. art exhibit. “Hokusai ...

What kind of relationship did Japanese people and animals have during the early modern Edo period (1603–1868)? An exhibition exploring this historical relationship through ukiyo-e (traditional ...

Utagawa Hiroshige, one of the most prominent figures of ukiyo-e (Japanese woodblock printing), is particularly well known for his skillful color composition and artistic presentation of landscapes.

Ukiyo-e woodblock prints, created to depict “The Floating World ... The colossal size of the paintings and the inclusion of the Taiko-bashi Bridge, closely tied to Hiroshige’s In the Kameido Tenjin ...

During this time, ukiyo-e woodblock prints also became popular, as they captured cultural triumphs and depicted the people and townscape of Japan's capital city. "Excellent Techniques of Carving ...

Ukiyo-e continue to be extremely popular around the ... giving birth to the wonderful landscape prints of artists such as Hokusai and Hiroshige. These prints familiarized people in Edo and the ...

The beautiful shade of blue used by ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Hiroshige is not any ordinary colour - it's Prussian blue used on Dutch ships, to be exact. Enter the world of this special shade seen in ...

It is 1830. Utagawa Hiroshige is a fire warden from a low-ranking samurai family who is struggling to establish himself as an ukiyo-e artist. One day, he learns about a new paint called Berlin ...

Long overshadowed by the likes of Hokusai and Hiroshige, ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi has been enjoying some belated recognition of late. The second major exhibition of his work to hit Tokyo ...