Hiroshige's vibrant woodcuts capture everyday life, landscapes, and culture during a transformational era in Japan.

Within this tradition, Hiroshige – a grand new exhibition of whose work will open at the British Museum next month – developed a distinctive artistic voice, and this was nowhere more visible than in ...

(Mainichi/Sakiko Takahashi) TOKYO -- A signature piece by famous Japanese artist Kitagawa ... is one of Utamaro's earliest ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints and is believed to have been created ...

Hiroshige made designs for colour woodblock prints, which became highly popular ... Ferry on the Fuji River, Suruga Province from Famous Places in Japan, c. 1832 The Trustees of the British ...

It’s not his most famous work, but this is my favorite woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai ... and in Asia too — at the pinnacle of “Japanese art.” But if you told the grandees ...

The British Museum’s exhibition on the Japanese master printmaker Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) will include Van Gogh’s own copy of a print which he used in a painting in homage. Hiroshige ...