“I knew they were something,” Christina Kean says about the three Japanese woodblock prints she came across ... Kean says she and her husband watched the sale online and enjoyed seeing the ...

Lai Shaoqi was a Chinese calligrapher and painter known for his expressive woodblock prints. Born on May 16 ... The artist went on to fight the Japanese, was arrested, and broke out of prison. Lai ...

Joichi Hoshi was a Japanese ... woodblock process. Born in 1913 in Niigata, Japan, Hoshi began his artistic career after working as an elementary school teacher in Taiwan for several years. He later ...

Rain. You forgot your umbrella. That’s what’s happening in this Japanese woodblock print — only it’s Tokyo (then called Edo), the year is 1857, and we’re crossing the Sumida River.

and political contexts of Toshi Yoshida’s woodblock print, Kami no Mori (“Sacred Grove”), 1941, and argue that it is best understood and appreciated from the perspective of romantic nationalism.

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Last week, two prints of Hokusai’s The Great Wave fetched over $800,000 each at auction in New York. Both Christie’s and Bonhams sold a print of the iconic ukiyo-e seascape in sales that coincided ...

Scholten Japanese Art is presenting, On The Vanguard: Meiji Period Woodblock Prints, a two-part exhibition, with thirty prints in each section, exploring the creative expression seen in Meiji-era ...

Sotheby’s Chinese Art sale was a remarkable ... of Christie's Christie’s Japanese and Korean auction was once again led by a print of Katsushika Hokusai’s woodblock Under the Well of the ...

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

The exhibition introduces the diverse and imaginative depictions of Yokai throughout Japanese history, from traditional woodblock prints to contemporary interpretations through picture scrolls, ...