In the 1830s, when it was made, a woodblock print in Edo—now ... classics like “The Great Wave” to late-20th-century prints by artists in Japan and the Pacific Northwest.

Making Japanese woodblock prints usually involves a team of people ... This year, the focus will be on prints and paintings by eminent 20th-century artists. “My aim is to show significant ...

Born into a wealthy family in 1896 in Japan’s Shizuoka ... hanga (creative print) movement. The sosaku hanga was a new generation of artists who, starting in the 20th century, broke away from ...

Yoshida’s print is one of several by women, whose emergence as artists was another development new to 20th-century Japan. Although women had long worked in the printmaking process, they were ...

A new exhibition dedicated to Hiroshige at the British Museum introduces visitors to the full depth and complexity of his ...

Later woodblock prints reveal that landscape continued to play a pivotal role in the lives and identity of Japanese people into the 20th century. Nature wreaked havoc on human life in the Great ...

“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 ...

woodblock print, signed Hasui, sealed Kawase, titled to the left margin as above, publisher's circular red seal to the bottom right corner Watanabe (Watanabe Shozaburo), dated Showa nijuninen saku ...

John Sculley, former CEO of Apple The shin-hanga print in Job's bedroom ... Shin-hanga is a 20th-century take on ukiyo-e, an older form of Japanese woodblock printing, that evolved as artists ...

The use of woodblock prints to depict a modern war was entirely new. Since the late 17th century, Japanese woodblock artists had focused primarily upon geisha life in the teahouses and pleasure ...

A new exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art displays haunting, colorful woodblock prints Roger ... currency when Japan was reinventing itself in the mid-19th century as a more modern ...