An exhibit of ukiyo-e depicting Japan’s tumultuous period of modernization, spanning the late Edo ... print”) is a technique used in ukiyo-e that allowed colors to be added during the ...

A walking tour of the Kiso Valley offers glimpses of the golden age of Japan’s great printmakers. In the 1830s, at the tail end of Japan’s flourishing Edo Period ... s prints with the real ...

To start, head to the Blanton Museum of Art on the University of Texas campus for "The Floating World: Masterpieces of Edo Japan ... which donated 3,700 Japanese woodblock prints to the museum ...

Defining the 19th century of Japan, the Edo and Meiji periods gave birth to the woodblock print movement, ukiyo-e ... during the Meiji Restoration,” Pschirrer-West said. “It was a period of really ...

Red Fuji is one of Katsushika Hokusai's most famous prints. Image courtesy of the Sackler Gallery The scenes depicted in Katsushika Hokusai’s famous woodblock ... Edo Bay to demand that Japan ...

The existence of such establishments is documented in a “ukiyo-e” woodblock print by Utagawa ... toward the end of Edo Period. A large sign that reads “yamakujira,” Japanese slang for ...

Interest has spread among Japanese since Tsutaya Juzaburo (1750-1797), a publisher in the Edo Period known as Tsutaju ... for old books and ukiyo-e woodblock prints every week, hoping to find ...