Iris flowers are seen at Horikiri Shobuen Iris Garden in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward, June 13, 2025. Some 6,000 Japanese iris ...

Highfield Hall & Gardens will welcome back the College Women’s Association of Japan Contemporary Japanese Print Show this ...

Centered on the extraordinary appeal of "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai, this exhibition offers a smartly ...

Centered on the extraordinary appeal of "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai, this exhibition offers a smartly ...

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

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 ...

The ancient Japanese tradition of “ukiyo-e,” expressed largely through woodblock prints, captured the burgeoning city of ... involved “watching things my Mom and family used to make…flower ...

The American businessman Alan Medaugh, 81, has spent 50 years building up an unparalleled collection of woodblock prints by the famed Japanese artist ... a folding fan of a flower-viewing party ...

Born into a low-ranking samurai family in Edo (present-day Tokyo), then the largest city in the world, Hiroshige became renowned for his lyrical and atmospheric colour-woodblock prints.

Woodblock art of this time took influence from ... the progression of the bird and flower prints becomes incredibly prevalent, with a changing Japanese society reflected in the simple subject matter.

Squeezed by the pressures of modernisation, the Japanese found emotional solace and calm across the 5,000 designs for colour woodblock ... through the bird-and-flower prints produced throughout ...