Making Japanese woodblock prints usually involves a team of people: The artist, who creates the design in black ink, on a very thin sheet of washi, traditional Japanese paper; the engraver, who ...

Time was when Japan's cheap prints of almond-eyed prostitutes, grimacing kabuki actors and brawling porters were as popular as penny dreadfuls, and treated with no more regard. Few Japanese ...

HAMILTON — A Beverly artist who specializes in Japanese-style fish prints is showcasing more than 20 original works of art at the Hamilton-Wenham Public Library.

Exploring Nature in Japanese Prints A new exhibition at Oregon’s Portland Art Museum shows how a cheap, popular art form produced enduring masterpieces. Maki Haku, ‘Fuji san-12’ (1989).

The Japanese Paper Film Project presents “An Evening of Japanese Paper Films,” a screening of recently preserved 1930s Japanese paper films on ... Print courtesy of the Machiko Kusahara ...

The award triggered Japanese newspapers to print special editions, given out on Friday morning in central Tokyo. Japan is 14 hours ahead of New York and the east coast of the United States.

Nicole Fabricand-Person, The Tōkaidō Road: Journeys through Japanese Books and Prints in the Collections of Princeton University, The Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Autumn ...

One Fine Show: “The Print Generation” at the National Museum of Asian Art The exhibition focuses on the generation of Japanese printmakers who reinvented the medium by undertaking all aspects ...

Events Gaze at “Tattoos in Japanese Prints” at the MFA “Tattoos in Japanese Prints” features nearly 80 works by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, a great ukiyo-e master, and his contemporaries.

The woodblock prints on paper — created by four-person teams of designers, carvers, printers and publishers — bloom into harmonious arrays of colors, many of them taken from nature.