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At first, Sugai adopted traditional ukiyo-e woodblock techniques, using bright colors to create prints infused with avant-garde art influences.

At the age of 14, Yoshisaburô joined the Utagawa School of ukiyo-e artists, then headed by Utagawa Toyokuni I (1769 - 1825).

Kunisada designed a wide spectrum of traditional ukiyo-e subjects like kabuki themes, beautiful women, historical events and quite a few shunga prints.

One of the most acclaimed artists to emerge from post-war Asia, Takashi Murakami is known for his signature “Superflat” aesthetic: a colorful, two-dimensional style that straddles th...

- Collection of the Boston Art Museum - Publisher: Maruya Seijirō 1850s Dimension: Image 8 1/4" x 13 1/2" : with frame 15 in x 19 in Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige is recognized as a ma...

When Japan opened to the West in 1854, the prints known as ukiyo-e (“images of the floating world”) fascinated and delighted European audiences, especially in France where the term J...

When Japan opened to the West in 1854, the prints known as ukiyo-e (“images of the floating world”) they fascinated and delighted European audiences, especially in France where the t...

There is an undercurrent of playfulness in Ouchi's take-offs on ukiyo-e themes, quite apt for a modern sensibility.

There is an undercurrent of playfulness in Ouchi's take-offs on ukiyo-e themes, quite apt for a modern sensibility.

The work captures the apex of late-Edo period theatrical printmaking, showcasing elaborate geometric check textile patterns on the kimonos and stylized, intensely expressive characte...

Blending Japanese ukiyo-e influences with contemporary figurative abstraction, Shunga I by Greek artist Konstantinos Papamichalopoulos is a visually arresting work that explores inti...

This collection is a must-have for Ukiyo-e fans, filled with beautiful compositions and fantastic views of the world that only Yoshitoshi could have created.

BIOGRAPHY: Common name: Genpachi (Genpachiro); go Shinmyo (from 1707), Baio (from 1707), Hogetsudo (from Genbun era, 1736-41), Tanchosai and Bunkaku (both from Enkyo era [?], 1744-8...

Shin-hanga was an art movement in early 20th-century Japan, during the Taisho and Showa periods, that revitalized traditional ukiyo-e art rooted in the Edo and Meiji periods.

His subjects are not only 'meisho' (famous places) prints which were typical of the earlier ukiyo-e masters such as Hiroshige and Hokusai, but also feature tranquil and picturesque s...

Later, his frequent travels to Japan led to a strong appreciation of the Ukiyo-e prints of Japanese woodcut masters like Hiroshige and Hokusai.

Later, his frequent travels to Japan led to a strong appreciation of the Ukiyo-e prints of Japanese woodcut masters like Hiroshige and Hokusai.

Later, his frequent travels to Japan led to a strong appreciation of the Ukiyo-e prints of Japanese woodcut masters like Hiroshige and Hokusai.

Later, his frequent travels to Japan led to a strong appreciation of the Ukiyo-e prints of Japanese woodcut masters like Hiroshige and Hokusai.

Later, his frequent travels to Japan led to a strong appreciation of the Ukiyo-e prints of Japanese woodcut masters like Hiroshige and Hokusai.

Later, his frequent travels to Japan led to a strong appreciation of the Ukiyo-e prints of Japanese woodcut masters like Hiroshige and Hokusai.

Later, his frequent travels to Japan led to a strong appreciation of the Ukiyo-e prints of Japanese woodcut masters like Hiroshige and Hokusai.

Later, his frequent travels to Japan led to a strong appreciation of the Ukiyo-e prints of Japanese woodcut masters like Hiroshige and Hokusai.

Later, his frequent travels to Japan led to a strong appreciation of the Ukiyo-e prints of Japanese woodcut masters like Hiroshige and Hokusai.

Later, his frequent travels to Japan led to a strong appreciation of the Ukiyo-e prints of Japanese woodcut masters like Hiroshige and Hokusai.

Kunisada designed a wide spectrum of traditional ukiyo-e subjects like kabuki themes, beautiful women, historical events and quite a few shunga prints.

Though trained in Kano school painting from an early age, Chikanobu shifted his attention to ukiyo-e around 1852. He began his printmaking career under the tutelage of Utagawa School...

By age 14, he served as an apprentice to a woodcarver, by age 18 he began studying ukiyo-e printmaking with Shunsho. Hokusai dedicated himself to the Katsukawa school until 1785, whe...

With the Tokugawa Shogunate relaxing centuries of age-old restrictions on travel, urban populations embraced travel art and Hiroshige Utagawa became one of the most prominent and suc...

This print is inspired by the Ukiyo-e prints of Utagawa Kunimasa. 32" x 19" art 41 3/4" x 28 7/8" framed Michael Knigin was born in 1942 in Brooklyn, New York.

By age 14, he served as an apprentice to a woodcarver, by age 18 he began studying ukiyo-e printmaking with Shunsho. Hokusai dedicated himself to the Katsukawa school until 1785, whe...

By age 14, he served as an apprentice to a woodcarver, by age 18 he began studying ukiyo-e printmaking with Shunsho. Hokusai dedicated himself to the Katsukawa school until 1785, whe...

With the Tokugawa Shogunate relaxing centuries of age-old restrictions on travel, urban populations embraced travel art and Hiroshige became one of the most prominent and successful ...

Surprisingly, given that he is an abstract artist, he draws inspiration from Swiss 19th-Century landscapes, prehistoric cave paintings, and Japanese studies for Ukiyo-e works on paper.

Rendered in a flat, graphic style that recalls Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, his paintings are both meditative and lyrical in their exploration of the still-life.

Surprisingly, given that he is an abstract artist, he draws inspiration from Swiss 19th-Century landscapes, prehistoric cave paintings, and Japanese studies for Ukiyo-e works on paper.

Paifang are designed with traditional Chinese architectural motifs including multi-tiered roofs, prominent supporting posts, and gracefully arched openings. This is an unusual ukiyo...

Imao Keinen was born in Kyoto in 1845, the fifth son of Imao Inosuke. He first studied Ukiyo-e style with Umegawa Tōkyo, later he became a pupil of Suzuki Hyakunen, studying paintin...

Yuzaburo Kawanishi (1923–2014) began learning woodblock printmaking at age eight under his father, Hide Kawanishi, one of the founding figures of the sōsaku hanga (“creative print”) ...

Kotondo became a painter and woodblock printer of the Torii school of ukiyo-e artists. He is most famous and celebrated for his twenty-one bijin-ga (images of beautiful Japanese wome...

The design reveals the strong influence of Japanese ukiyo-e prints, whose flattened perspectives, asymmetrical compositions, and bold contours transformed European graphic arts durin...

Elegant, intimate, and highly sophisticated, the composition exemplifies the artistic refinement of Edo-period surimono printing. Unlike commercial ukiyo-e prints produced for mass c...

Technique: Woodblock print (ukiyo-e, polychrome ink on paper) Maker: Hanawa Mansōchishin, Japan, circa 1850

This collection is a must-have for Ukiyo-e fans, filled with beautiful compositions and fantastic views of the world that only Yoshitoshi could have created.

This collection is a must-have for Ukiyo-e fans, filled with beautiful compositions and fantastic views of the world that only Yoshitoshi could have created.

This collection is a must-have for Ukiyo-e fans, filled with beautiful compositions and fantastic views of the world that only Yoshitoshi could have created.

This collection is a must-have for Ukiyo-e fans, filled with beautiful compositions and fantastic views of the world that only Yoshitoshi could have created.

With the Tokugawa Shogunate relaxing centuries of age-old restrictions on travel, urban populations embraced travel art and Hiroshige Utagawa became one of the most prominent and suc...

Later, his frequent travels to Japan led to a strong appreciation of the Ukiyo-e prints of Japanese woodcut masters like Hiroshige and Hokusai.

It seems that without question, he became the most prolific and most commercially successful artist in the history of the ukiyo-e school.

Fenollosa introduced him to the wonders of the "floating world" (ukiyo-e), the great woodblock prints of Hiroshige and Hokusai, and opened up to him the recondite center of Japanese ...

Just like the exuberant life of the amusement quarters of the Japanese Edo period, it was the nightlife of Montmartre in Paris, which inspired the works of this incredible artist. An...

Surprisingly, given that he is an abstract artist, he draws inspiration from Swiss 19th-Century landscapes, prehistoric cave paintings, and Japanese studies for Ukiyo-e works on paper.

Surprisingly, given that he is an abstract artist, he draws inspiration from Swiss 19th-Century landscapes, prehistoric cave paintings, and Japanese studies for Ukiyo-e works on paper.

Surprisingly, given that he is an abstract artist, he draws inspiration from Swiss 19th-Century landscapes, prehistoric cave paintings, and Japanese studies for Ukiyo-e works on paper.

The flower branches are surrounded by noticeable negative space, at times appearing to be almost floating in space in Ukiyo-e style. The plates are marked with green underglaze "H&a...

Twentieth-century lacquer artists continued this long tradition by creating elegant decorative boxes featuring classical landscape themes, often inspired by the celebrated ukiyo-e an...

Their striking, dramatic depictions in ukiyo-e woodblock prints were widely collected by the public.

Fischer, 2016.34.16.8 (Edition to be confirmed)DescriptionA feral, wave-textured figure grips a short blade as the scrawled slogan “Slash with a knife” cuts across the sheet. Nar...

Born in Nigata prefecture, Tadashi Nakayama evolved a unique graphic style that combined traditional Japanese ukiyo-e print techniques with Western influences.