“I knew they were something,” Christina Kean says about the three Japanese woodblock prints she came across ... Kean says she and her husband watched the sale online and enjoyed seeing the ...

Scholten Japanese Art opened their Asia Week Autumn 2024 exhibition, TREASURED VIEWS: The Neil Stipanich Collection of Kawase Hasui Woodblock Prints. Christie’s celebrates Asian Art Week at ...

Opening at Watts Gallery on 19 March, Edo Pop is an exhibition of 19th-century Japanese woodblock prints from the private collection of art historian and writer, Frank Milner.

Joichi Hoshi was a Japanese ... woodblock process. Born in 1913 in Niigata, Japan, Hoshi began his artistic career after working as an elementary school teacher in Taiwan for several years. He later ...

Tech icon Steve Jobs was fascinated by Japanese culture, and was particularly passionate about shin-hanga woodblock prints. Interviews with former colleagues and friends reveal that his lifelong ...

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 ...

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Rain. You forgot your umbrella. That’s what’s happening in this Japanese woodblock print — only it’s Tokyo (then called Edo), the year is 1857, and we’re crossing the Sumida River.

The popular store is filled with various collections of Japanese books ... Koketsu attends auctions for old books and ukiyo-e woodblock prints every week, hoping to find rarities and bargains.

Simply type in whatever comes to mind and the program will churn out a woodblock print. “I would like the ... technology engineer and classical Japanese literature scholar.

This print has two names: 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa' and 'The Great Wave'. Hokusai used a type of printing called woodblock printing. Woodblock printing began in Japan and is one of the oldest ...

Japan is promoting the sale of seafood in Brazil, where the largest overseas community of people of Japanese origin live, mainly in Sao Paulo. The event was held by Japan’s agriculture ministry ...