Often brightly colored and meticulously detailed, woodblock prints gained initial prominence in Japan as an accessible artform during the Edo Period (1603-1868). Prints made during this period are ...

Visitors can step back in time to Japan's samurai era in an new Tokyo exhibition that uses cutting-edge technology to bring ...

Through 140 masterworks of paintings, woodblock prints, and books, Designed for Pleasure examines—in the context of ... In practice, this implied disporting oneself in the pleasure quarters and ...

The exhibition, tucked into a downtown shopping mall, invites patrons to step into scenes of nature and village life depicted by the master of Edo Period woodblock art. Technical wizardry from ...