The style of Japanese woodblock printing known as ukiyo-e (‘images of the floating world’) flourished during the Edo period (1603–1867). Artists captured the vi ...

Japanese printmaking, with its rich history and refined aesthetics, has long been a cornerstone of the nation’s visual culture. Originating as a tool for religi ...

The Kamigata region of Osaka and Kyoto was never much of a center for ukiyo-e printmaking ... was such that just under half of all theater prints published in Osaka during his years of activity ...

Ukiyo-e prints at the NGA and a monumental video installation at the AGNSW provide rewards beyond gallery blockbusters ...

A frog holding a taro-leaf umbrella. A parade of frolicking animals. An Ukiyo-e style Mount Fuji. Giant waves. A Japanese artist who goes by the name Lito carves these delicate designs on fallen ...

Pitched by Sakana AI, a Japanese startup firm founded by former Google engineers, Evo-Ukiyoe was created by scanning those 24,038 ukiyo-e. Real works were used in the hope of reproducing not only ...

He was particularly fond of the three Kawase prints ... revive the ukiyo-e tradition of woodblock prints and painting. But it was overseas that these pieces, which mostly depict Japanese ...