It specializes in original woodblock prints, paintings, and antique items from Japan ... a Western love for — and interpretation of — Japanese art. Japonisme invaded art studios and ...

No matter the type of object — cookie jars, military memorabilia, fine art prints ... under glass, prints require different protection. Prints and other works on paper like antique maps ...

Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry ... APPRAISER: These are both original Japanese woodblock prints. It was likely around six or seven cherry woodblocks that were carved out ...

paintings, sculptures – including those by Hiroshige, Hokusai, Kunisada, Utamaro, Yoshitoshi and other important Japanese printmakers. It led to the matriarch’s role as a full-fledged art ...

These five masterpieces capture the very essence of the transformations that have shaped Japan's visual identity, from the 12th century to the Roaring Twenties, from the illustrated scroll to the ...

French painter Henri Matisse first came into contact with ukiyo-e woodcut prints in the early 20th century, when various world fairs brought Japanese art to Europe. Struggling to get his own ...

Squeezed by the pressures of modernisation, the Japanese ... art. The multi-skilled artist also possessed strengths in calligraphy, which will be displayed and shown through the bird-and-flower ...