Japanese printmaking, with its rich history and refined aesthetics, has long been a cornerstone of the nation’s visual culture. Originating as a tool for religious devotion and later blossoming ...

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

One of the most-told stories about 19th-century art recounts how prints from Japan, suddenly available in the West after the ...

Highfield Hall & Gardens will welcome back the College Women’s Association of Japan Contemporary Japanese Print Show this ...

French painter Henri Matisse first came into contact with ukiyo-e woodcut prints in the early 20th century, when various world fairs brought Japanese art to Europe. Struggling to get his own ...

See more than 35 Japanese prints — many on public view for the first time — at a new exhibition opening at the Worcester Art Museum called “Reflections of a Changing Japan: The Evolution of ...

The British Museum’s exhibition on the Japanese master printmaker Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) will include Van Gogh’s own copy of a print which he used in a painting in homage. Hiroshige ...