“I knew they were something,” Christina Kean says about the three Japanese woodblock prints she came across about a year ago in a thrift store. “I found them in a loose bin of art,” she ...

The reverse side is Japanese ukiyoe master Katsushika Hokusai's "In the Well of the Great Wave off Kanagawa." It's one of the world's most famous woodblock prints. The new notes will be the same ...

Mrs. Paul Fletcher's gift of Japanese woodblock prints includes famous images of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai. On display as well are 14th-century Thai Sawankhalok ware figures given by Morton D.

also studied these woodblock compositions. Alfred Barr, the first director of the Museum of Modern Art, put “Japanese Prints” at the very top of his famous genealogy of “Cubism and Abstract ...

Not only does it recreate a genuinely beautiful woodblock print from the 1830s ... and it's definitely the most famous Japanese artwork. LEGO isn't kidding when it calls the print a "masterpiece ...

Ukio-e are Japanese woodblock prints that were popular between the 17th and 20th ... These sweets are among the best foods in Kyoto to try; they're famously known as "meibutsu" (famous regional ...

The Ota Memorial Museum of Art showcases beautiful ukiyo-e, or woodblock prints, from famous Japanese artists like Hiroshige. The museum is home to a vast collection, 12,000 strong, that was gathered ...

Objects include a woodblock print by nineteenth-century artist Utagawa Kunisada depicting the legend of the Shintō sun goddess Amaterasu. The tale of the selfless Rabbit in the Moon, famous for ...

Simply type in whatever comes to mind and the program will churn out a woodblock print. “I would like the ... technology engineer and classical Japanese literature scholar.

As the world’s first, and most famous, virtual idol, there’s a futuristic ... as we’ve seen in her hina ningyo doll and ukiyo-e woodblock prints. So for her next project, Miku is taking to the stage ...

Washin Kai (Friends of Classical Japanese) and the University of Washington (UW) Japan Studies program will be featuring Professor Joshua Mostow, Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in ...