The style of Japanese woodblock printing known as ukiyo-e (‘images of the floating world’) flourished during the Edo period ...

In the 1830s, at the tail end of Japan’s flourishing Edo Period, two artists set out to ... to line up one of Eisen’s or Hiroshige’s prints with the real thing. In Hiroshige’s rendering ...

Demons Emerge from a Large, Wooden Chest is a gorgeous woodblock print by Kawanable Kyōsai ... the end of a life that had begun during the Edo period, when Japan was still a feudal country ...

In this lesson, students examine woodblock prints as texts ... people profited from frequent travel in the Tokugawa Period. Explain that Hiroshige also created a series of prints showing scenes in Edo ...

An exhibit of ukiyo-e depicting Japan’s tumultuous period of modernization, spanning the late Edo ... print”) is a technique used in ukiyo-e that allowed colors to be added during the ...

In the Edo Period, a number of establishments called “momonji-ya” served wild game in what is now Tokyo. The existence of such establishments is documented in a “ukiyo-e” woodblock print ...