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KYOTO--Featuring erotic works created by some of the most celebrated ukiyo-e artists, the Hosomi Museum here is hosting its first “shunga” exhibition in eight years. Sponsored by The Asahi ...
There’s an element of voyeurism in the Japanese art of ukiyo-e. You get that feeling you’re glimpsing into another world, says Sydney-based artist Cressida Campbell. Her work is influenced by ...
Katsushika Oi, known as O-Ei, is the third daughter of Katsushika Hokusai and she is an Ukiyo-e artist in her own right. O-Ei married to a painter, but soon divorced and worked as Hokusai's ...
Is there an upcoming ukiyo-e artist adding a 21st-century flair to the genre? Nope. It’s all generative artificial intelligence. And it was fed 24,038 scans of actual pieces. The Evo-Ukiyoe ...
Japan left as indelible a mark on the world of publishing and art as Tsutaya Juzaburo (1750–1797). A masterful entrepreneu ...
a visual artist with Red Geek Pictures, which helped develop the exhibition. Born in 1760, Katsushika Hokusai took the medium known as ukiyo-e to new artistic heights and popularity through his ...
Shin Hanga (or “new prints”) developed as a revival of the traditional ukiyo-e style of printmaking from Japan’s Edo period, yet it reflected more modern-day subject matter and techniques ...
It is 1830. Utagawa Hiroshige is a fire warden from a low-ranking samurai family who is struggling to establish himself as an ukiyo-e artist. One day, he learns about a new paint called Berlin ...