The Floating World” transports visitors to a time when Japan was emerging from the feudal era and modern cities were booming.

Yuka Sakuma is a painter and illustrator based in Nagoya, Japan. Inspired by the nihonga school, her work has been exhibited at home and abroad. We caught up with her to discuss the origins of her art ...

Yuka Sakuma is a painter and illustrator based in Nagoya, Japan. Inspired by the nihonga school, her work has been exhibited at home and abroad. We caught up with her to discuss the origins of her art ...

College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn is celebrating Japan’s iconic Shogun era with a never-seen-in-the-U.S. art exhibit. “Hokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World, Artworks from the Chiossone Collectio… ...

Color woodblock print (nishiki-e), ōban Utagawa Hiroshige, “Kinryūzan Temple in Asakusa” from “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo” (1856-59), color woodblock print.

“Hiroshige: Artist of the Open Road,” on view through September 7, celebrates a landmark gift of 35 particularly prized Hiroshige prints by the U.S. collector Alan Medaugh.

TOKYO -- A signature piece by famous Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro titled "Young Woman Blowing a Glass Pipe (poppin)" was discovered for the first time in 44 years, the Tokyo National Museum in ...

Hiroshige made designs for colour woodblock prints, which became highly popular adornments for the homes of Japanese people. Hiroshige made thousands of designs - as well as paintings and ...

The American businessman Alan Medaugh, 81, has spent 50 years building up an unparalleled collection of woodblock prints by the famed Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858). With 850 works ...

This episode’s Work of the Week is A woman abalone diver wrestling with an octopus (around 1870), a woodblock print by the Japanese artist Taiso Yoshitoshi.

One of the most famous and iconic paintings in the Japanese art scene, is ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’. It is a woodblock print and is part of a series called ‘Thirty-Six Views of Mount ...