The art of Japan’s Edo period is undeniably beautiful, influencing creators across the centuries. Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai is most famous for his woodblock print, “Under the Wave off ...

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John Westbrooke views a British Museum exhibition of “pictures of the floating world” Looking at Utagawa Hiroshige’s work, ...

LONDON (Bernama-Kyodo): Japanese landscape designer Kazuyuki Ishihara won the Garden of the Year award for the first time at the Chelsea Flower Show, a globally renowned landscaping competition in ...

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The exhibition also has a Japanese streetscape scene set during the Samuri time with recreations of Hokusai’s home, a woodblock print shop, tea shop and market, Martinez said. The Great Wave ...

According to a report in the Japanese daily newspaper Japan Times, the soil will be used to fill gardens in front of government buildings. Among other things, the soil is to be used in flower beds ...

Hokusai brought to life a monumental wave that would become a worldwide icon. Behind this print lies a history of artistic ...

You can see the thrill and tension behind that transition from old to new in two Japanese woodblock prints—one depicting the romantic curved bridge of the earlier era and the other an angular ...