Teraoka drew on the Japanese heritage of kabuki theatre prints with their beautiful women and the shunga erotic prints with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To mark the British Council's 90th anniversary, Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Day and Online sale (Thursday, 10th October ...

Unlike the very famous Japanese prints from the Edo period (those that ... the turning of people's interests to western technologies. From the 1870s, print production via non-woodblock media such as ...

Some Japanese woodblock prints are also currently on display ... no mention of Pensacola is complete without highlighting its most famous residents: the Blue Angels. Visitors can catch the ...

Shunga – Japanese erotic art – depicts a world awash with sex. In a famous image, a woman lies on the sea floor ... These gorgeous pictures were created by woodblock print artists and are crafted with ...

These were woodblock prints designed as full-page illustrations to accompany ... Yoshitoshi's series Mirror of Famous Generals of Great Japan consists of fifty-one woodblocks, published in his middle ...