According to Japanese mythology, the thrashing of a giant subterranean catfish causes the earthquakes that wreak havoc on the ...

Visitors can step back in time to Japan's samurai era in an new Tokyo exhibition that uses cutting-edge technology to bring ...

The Hokusai exhibition, which runs from Saturday to June 1 at Tokyu Plaza Shibuya, follows other tech-driven, immersive art ...

High-Tech Spin for Samurai-Era Ukiyo-E Artist Hokusai at Tokyo Exhibit By Irene Wang and Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - Visitors can step back in time to ... master of Edo Period woodblock art.

Edo period in Japan lasted from 1603 to 1867/1868. During this time the country was ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate. Almost two centuries after its creation, Hokusai’s print is more popular than ever, ...

Xu Jiahui, a national inheritor of Liangping woodblock New Year painting, colors a woodblock print at his workshop in Chongqing's Liangping district on Jan 14. HUANG WEI/XINHUA As Wen Li attached ...

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Japanese Art History à la Takashi Murakami” at Gagosian’s Mayfair branch in London showcases the Japanese polymathic artist in remix mode as he updates important pieces from his country’s artistic ...

Iehiro noted that Edo culture is especially admired in Europe and the United States, so much so that cultural assets from the period are stored and exhibited all over the world. “Japan’s ...

Originating in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), the Liangping New Year woodblock print was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2006. Pasting New Year paintings is one of the important ...