Ahead of TEFAF Maastricht, Tamio Ikeda, of the Paris gallery Tanakaya, shares the complex history behind the woodblock print, and how mutual admiration may have saved it. By Vivian Morelli ...

It's a crucial work for understanding Japanese art—and Japan ... Gogh all had some or all of this set of 55 prints. These multicolored works on paper are beautifully rendered and imbued with ...

hand-coats strips of traditional Japanese paper, known as washi. “Made for centuries in Japan, this paper combines just the right physical properties with a unique aesthetic,” says Film Washi ...

Kimura Kōsuke (b. 1936), Present Situation (Framing B) (detail), Japan, Shōwa era, 1971, screenprint and lithograph; ink on paper, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Purchase and ...

There he spotted some Japanese prints being used as wrapping paper. He was so taken by the engravings that he bought one on the spot. The purchase changed his life — and the history of Western art.

The woodblock prints on paper — created by four-person teams ... but daily life could be quite pleasurable for certain classes of Japanese. Many of these prints depict picnics, festivals ...

Gyotaku is traditionally created by pressing a sheet of thin Japanese Washi paper onto a fish coated in black Sumi ink. The print usually includes additional stamps indicating the date of the ...

The story of the simple paper lantern is told through objects, prints, photographs ... illustrations hail from the 16th century. The Japanese word chōchin refers to the traditional lanterns ...

“His life lines up with the really large changes that were taking place in Japanese society during ... pattern in the background of the prints due to the carved wooden blocks that are inked and ...