Hiroshige's vibrant woodcuts capture everyday life, landscapes, and culture during a transformational era in Japan.

The style of Japanese woodblock printing known as ukiyo-e (‘images of the floating world’) flourished during the Edo period (1603 ... Today’, where new prints by the likes of renowned ...

An exhibit of ukiyo-e depicting Japan’s tumultuous period of modernization, spanning the late Edo ... print”) is a technique used in ukiyo-e that allowed colors to be added during the ...

A walking tour of the Kiso Valley offers glimpses of the golden age of Japan’s great printmakers. In the 1830s, at the tail end of Japan’s flourishing Edo Period ... s prints with the real ...

They also continued meeting local and tourist demands for woodblock or ukiyo-e prints evolving from the preceding Edo period from 1603 to 1868. As Japanese crafts excelled in foreign press ...

The existence of such establishments is documented in a “ukiyo-e” woodblock print by Utagawa ... toward the end of Edo Period. A large sign that reads “yamakujira,” Japanese slang for ...

Defining the 19th century of Japan, the Edo and Meiji periods gave birth to the woodblock print movement, ukiyo-e ... during the Meiji Restoration,” Pschirrer-West said. “It was a period of really ...

The samurai rulers of the Edo period in Japan ... Hiroshige made designs for colour woodblock prints, which became highly popular adornments for the homes of Japanese people.

The special exhibition Tsutaya Jūzaburō: Creative Visionary of Edo is currently running until June 15 at the Heiseikan building of Tokyo National Museum. This exhibition showcases around 250 ...

which consists of woodblock prints and illustrated books by nearly a dozen Edo-period artists. The Japanese folk tales that became Kabuki plays are often about the vengeful spirits of wronged ...

Interest has spread among Japanese since Tsutaya Juzaburo (1750-1797), a publisher in the Edo Period known as Tsutaju ... for old books and ukiyo-e woodblock prints every week, hoping to find ...