A walking tour of the Kiso Valley offers glimpses of the golden age of Japan’s great printmakers. In the 1830s, at the tail ...

Step into the masterful world of Japan’s most celebrated woodblock print artist this spring at ‘Hokusai: Another Story’, held at Shibuya’s. Utilisin ...

What would it feel like to be inside of this artwork? Image credit: Utagawa Kuniaki II, 1835 - 1888 (Japanese), Ōzumō Keiko no zu [Professional Sumo Wrestlers Practicing], 1866, woodcut on paper, 13 3 ...

Hokusai used a type of printing called woodblock printing. Woodblock printing began in Japan and is one of the oldest types of printmaking. In woodblock prints, the design is cut or carved into a ...

Demons Emerge from a Large, Wooden Chest is a gorgeous woodblock print by Kawanable Kyōsai. The print was made in 1890. It's ...

One was a photo of Einstein, another was a picture of Gandhi, and the third was a Japanese woodblock print. "I was very surprised," Sculley says. "I asked him, 'Is this what you like to do ...

An underappreciated ukiyo-e master is the focus of the largest-ever retrospective of his work in Japan, marking the 190th ...

Hannah Walhout is a senior editor at Travel + Leisure, where she edits the Discoveries section of the print magazine and ... Sipping my cold brew, I studied the woodblock version of the town.

There are two figures. One is feminine, the other is masculine. The masculine figure seems to be farther away because he is much smaller and higher in the image. The feminine figure takes up about a ...

Buildings in the Edo Period style in the town of Magome, Japan.