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

Hokusai brought to life a monumental wave that would become a worldwide icon. Behind this print lies a history of artistic ...

The couple accrued woodblock prints, paintings, sculptures – including those by Hiroshige, Hokusai, Kunisada, Utamaro, Yoshitoshi and other important Japanese printmakers. It led to the ...

The art of Japan’s Edo period is undeniably beautiful, influencing creators across the centuries. Japanese artist Katsushika ...

On exhibit last week, the Met’s 339 Uki-yoye (“pictures of the floating world”) were new proof ... His work ended the golden age of Japanese prints and started a new era in Western art.

Ukiyo-e means “images of the floating world,” COD’s McAninch Arts ... era artists popular at the time as well as prints, instruments fand Japanese scrolls from the period.

The exhibition Japan: A Floating World in Print at Maidstone Museum showcases a captivating collection of Ukiyo-e prints from the Edo and Meiji periods. Trying to find the right nursery ...

(Ukiyo-e means, roughly, “pictures of a floating world.”) Within decades of the publication of the Sixty-Nine Stations of the Nakasendō, the Edo Period would come to an end, Japan would begin ...

Screened entirely on rare prints imported from collections in Japan, the sprawling retrospective includes Naruse's best-known works — 'Floating ... thought that the world we live in betrays ...