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

Village by the Tama River (1858) – Utagawa Hiroshige Village by the Tama ... for his series 100 Views of the Moon. This last ukiyo-e on this list was made by Katsushika Hokusai, one of the ...

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.

To that end, the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena is launching an exhibition of ukiyo-e, titled “Hiroshige: Visions of Japan.” Utagawa Hiroshige was one of ukiyo-e’s most popular and ...

Japan enjoyed something of a travel boom in the late Edo Period (1603-1868). This was no doubt a key impetus behind the famous ukiyo-e landscape series “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji" created ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...