Each pair shows a distinct era of Japanese woodblock prints: ukiyo-e from the 1800s; ukiyo-e from the early 20th century; and woodcut prints after World War II. In the next small room, a selection ...

each a woodblock print, signed Koitsu, sealed Shin, titled in the right margin, publisher's mark to lower left margin Hanken shoyu Doi hanga-ten [copyright reserved, Doi print dealers], with carver’s ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HERE: JAPANESE ART ALIGHTS IN CAPE ESTATE. If you’re not traveling to Japan this summer, you can still immerse yourself in ...

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 ...