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“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 ...
College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn is celebrating Japan’s iconic Shogun era with a never-seen-in-the-U.S. art exhibit. “Hokusai ...
One of them, on rue Saint-Sulpice, is Tanakaya. It specializes in original woodblock prints, paintings, and antique items from Japan. “It all began some 40 years ago with the creation of my ...
GUEST: My guess is it wasn't over ten dollars. APPRAISER: These are both original Japanese woodblock prints. It was likely around six or seven cherry woodblocks that were carved out by hand to ...
A walking tour of the Kiso Valley offers glimpses of the golden age of Japan’s great printmakers ... line up one of Eisen’s ...
Join Asia Society Texas to celebrate our newest exhibition Yōkai: Scenes of the Supernatural in Japanese Woodblock Prints. Over the next few months, the gallery will be home to famous yōkai: ...
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 the stories that the art represents, which continue to ...
Rain. You forgot your umbrella. That’s what’s happening in this Japanese woodblock print — only it’s Tokyo (then called Edo), the year is 1857, and we’re crossing the Sumida River.
Tech icon Steve Jobs was fascinated by Japanese culture, and was particularly passionate about shin-hanga woodblock prints. Interviews with former colleagues and friends reveal that his lifelong ...