This exhibition showcases nearly 100 sumo-e, ukiyo-e prints of sumo wrestlers, which date back to the early 19th century and are selected from the Kazuyoshi Ishiguro collection. Many of the prints ...

“Ukiyo-e” is a genre of mass-produced Japanese woodblock prints that display everything from theater announcements and landscapes to sumo wrestlers and even salacious erotica. The prints were ...

Theatre, sumo, the beauty of nature and brothels ... and their enthusiasm inspired a new art form, Ukiyo-e, chronicling and celebrating the attractions of the sensual world.

Before winning the Edogawa Rampo Prize for "The Case of the Sharaku Murders" in 1983, Katsuhiko Takahashi was an ukiyo-e researcher and university lecturer, which perhaps explains why he chose to ...

Some of the greatest artists of the time, including Kitagawa Utamaro and Katsushika Hokusai, employed ukiyo-e to depict Edo’s hedonistic ‘floating world’ of geisha, kabuki, sumo – and sex.

Dating back to the early 1600s, Ukiyo-e – or “pictures of the floating world” – evolved as a popular art in Japan focusing on subjects like historical scenes, landscapes, sumo wrestlers ...

“Ukiyo-e” is a genre of mass-produced Japanese woodblock prints that display everything from theater announcements and landscapes to sumo wrestlers and even salacious erotica. The prints were ...

“Ukiyo-e” is a genre of mass-produced Japanese woodblock prints that display everything from theater announcements and landscapes to sumo wrestlers and even salacious erotica. The prints were ...