Although traditional-style woodblock printing can still be found in Japan -- often in the form of souvenir-copies of famous ukiyo-e-- the art of woodblock printing for almost 100 years now has ...

Even as woodblock-print artists ... most of the research that has been done on Japanese tattoo art, either by Japanese or foreign scholars, has tended to focus on its historical development.

“Art is nourished by exchanges, knowledge, and influences,” Mr. Ikeda explained. However, in the early days of woodblock printmaking, there was not much exchange going on between Japan and Franc ...

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), c. 1850. (credit: Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art) In Hiroshige’s woodblock print, a scene from the masterpiece, Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido, the artist ...

Cressida Campbell’s Shelf still life 2012 woodblock, painted in ... and the composition that is so important in Japanese art,” says Campbell. Katsushika Hokusai’s iconic print, Under ...

College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn is celebrating Japan’s iconic Shogun era with a never-seen-in-the-U.S. art exhibit. “Hokusai ...

Woodblock art of this time took influence from internal styles as well ... Hiroshige’s “Canary and Clematis” features a glimpse into the changing history of Japan as canaries were introduced by Dutch ...

Centered on the extraordinary appeal of "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai, this exhibition offers a smartly ...