Utagawa Kunisada I (also known as “Toyokuni III”), Rooster: Actor Kawarazaki Gonjūrō I as Danshichi, from the series A Collection of Popular Birds in Accordance with Your Wishes, 1860, woodblock print ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Fender Japan Fender has continued to celebrate the first anniversary of its flagship Tokyo store by releasing a new range ...

Calves bulging and back rippling with sinewy muscles, Du Xing – a bandit in the Chinese martial arts novel “Water Margin” – moves towards a precipice. His arms are raised overhead, clutching a massive ...

Vincent van Gogh, “Portrait of Père Tanguy” (Autumn 1887), painting (all images courtesy Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam and the Vincent van Gogh Foundation) The influence of Japanese woodblock prints on ...

Time was when Japan’s cheap prints of almond-eyed prostitutes, grimacing kabuki actors and brawling porters were as popular as penny dreadfuls, and treated with no more regard. Few Japanese mourned ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — The curator of a new exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints is asking you to take deep look with him at two significant strains of artistic evolution taking place within the genre ...

Hiratsuka Un'ichi, Evening at Sado, 1938. Woodblock print. Photo, the Clark Kawase Hasui, "Late Autumn in Ichikawa," 1930. Color woodblock print. Photo, Clark Art ...

Turns out she was like most visionaries – way ahead of her time. Thus began The Verne Collection. The couple accrued woodblock prints, paintings, sculptures – including those by Hiroshige, Hokusai, ...

In an ordinary season, "Japanesque: The Japanese Print in the Era of Impressionism" at the Legion of Honor might have outshone everything else the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco offered. But this ...

The sosaku hanga movement, now explored in an exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art, was a showcase for new techniques in creative prints Birds (Cranes), Tamami Shima, woodblock print, 1959 ...

John Resig came out to Etsy Labs on Thursday to talk about his long running side project Ukiyo-e: collecting scans of Japanese prints from the web and using programming to learn as much as he can ...