The Ukiyo-e woodblock prints of Japan’s Edo period manage to speak ... Are they working or playing? Ukiyo-e woodblock prints pay homage to the culture and lifestyle of a teeming society of ...

Another print, by Utagawa Kunisada II (1823-1880), a former student of the artist from whom he took his name, shows an actor playing the ... interested in Japanese woodblock prints, the exhibition ...

The over 50 works on display, created from the 1700s to the 1900s by Japanese artists, show the lingering power of woodblock print art and ... images from this ghost play and others of the era ...

The style of Japanese woodblock printing known as ukiyo-e ... That lasting impact is on display at ‘Ukiyo-e In Play’, hosted by the Hyokeikan at the Tokyo National Museum until June ...

What kind of relationship did Japanese people and animals have during ... historical relationship through ukiyo-e (traditional woodblock prints and paintings) and crafts, titled “Animals ...

Donated to TEA by Utagawa Monjinkai and the Japan Society of New York, this collection of 30 prints and accompanying lesson suggestions offer teachers the opportunity to engage their students in first ...

“Ukiyo-e” is a genre of mass-produced Japanese woodblock prints that display everything from theater announcements and landscapes to sumo wrestlers and even salacious erotica. The prints were ...

A walking tour of the Kiso Valley offers glimpses of the golden age of Japan’s great printmakers ... Sipping my cold brew, I studied the woodblock version of the town. Nothing I could see ...

Japanese 19th-century woodblock prints show life in a dreamy bygone era. Still, the thrill of seeing the hand-colored, hand-carved illustrations in Pulling Faces, an exhibition now on display at ...

Kiyochika’s woodblock prints have been described as “studies in shadow and light”—a dichotomy that suits the artist, who is often described as both Japan’s last great woodblock print ...

“Bird and Blossom” highlights the evolution of prints in Japan from the Edo and Meiji eras into the twentieth century. Defining the 19th century of Japan, the Edo and Meiji periods gave birth to the ...