‘Rising Sun, Falling Rain’ features over 80 ukiyo-e masterworks from the Edo Period, including landscapes by Hiroshige and Hokusai. On view through November 30. The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles has ...
The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art debuted “Bird and Blossom,” an exhibition of woodblock prints depicting simple relationships in the natural world, on Jan. 24. Curated by Eleanor Pschirrer-West, ...
Often brightly colored and meticulously detailed, woodblock prints gained initial prominence in Japan as an accessible artform during the Edo Period (1603-1868). Prints made during this period are ...
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Utagawa Hiroshige, "Ryōgoku Ekōin and Moto-Yanagibashi Bridge" (1857) (all images courtesy the Brooklyn Museum) The Brooklyn Museum’s Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (feat. Takashi Murakami) is ...
How much do we really know about Hiroshige? Thanks to the medium of mass-produced woodblock prints, his masterful, uniquely exquisite designs spread rapidly, becoming widely beloved throughout his ...
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The sosaku hanga movement, now explored in an exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art, was a showcase for new techniques in creative prints Birds (Cranes), Tamami Shima, woodblock print, 1959 ...
Ukiyo-e images are familiar to many Americans. The iconic woodblock prints and paintings are instantly recognizable symbols of Japan, although foreigners might not know much about their history. The ...
A new exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art displays haunting, colorful woodblock prints Roger Catlin | Museums Correspondent Oiwa’s husband wanted to remarry his rich neighbor, but his wife ...
Akihabara Premium Collection announced the release of an ukiyo-e woodblock print based on the Puella Magi Madoka Magica anime series. The woodprint costs 71,500 yen (approximately $466) and will be ...