From delicate textiles to intricate metalwork, its artisan workshops are bastions of skill and dedication. These five ...
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 ...
This early print impression from the 1830s is part of ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai’s 36 Views of Mount Fuji series ...
Jimbocho boasts many stores selling woodblock prints, as well as other forms of ... a store that specialises in ukiyo-e, a style of woodblock printing popular in Japan from the 17th to 19th ...
From the early 1970s Japanese-American artist Masami Teraoka adopted the traditional visual vocabulary of 17th–19th century Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints to comment on the world around him. These ...
Additionally, all three dials take stylistic inspiration from ukiyo-e, the centuries-old Japanese art form of woodblock prints and paintings, and feature delicate three-dimensional textures. Outside ...