A few years back I was taking a leisurely stroll through the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens during Sakura Matsuri (the Japanese cherry blossom festival). I happened across a table selling wood-block ...

The world’s most powerful passport just got a makeover. Japan is issuing passports featuring art by ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai to Japanese citizens who applied after February 4. “Ukiyo-e” is a ...

The Legend of Zelda and Donkey Kong reimagined in ukiyo-e style. Images via Jed Henry. Hokusai’s “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa” (c.1829–32) (via Wikipedia) Ukiyo-e Heroes, a new series by American ...

There will be four characters featured in this art collection: the Saber-class Artoria Pendragon, the Archer-class EMIYA, the Rider-class Ushiwakamaru, and the Moon Cancer-class Archetype: Earth.

During the 18th and 19th centuries, Japanese art, Impressionism, and other European art styles were heavily linked. Ukiyo-e woodblock prints, created to depict “The Floating World of Edo” (modern-day ...

For those who can’t make it to Japan this summer, there is always Glen Ellyn. “Hokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World,” a multimedia extravaganza inspired by the art of 18th- and 19th-century Japan, is ...

"Each block is made from 100 year old mountain cherry." This isn't a new video to enjoy, but it's certainly worth watching anyway and might inspire artistic minds. Thanks to recent "unintentional ASMR ...

The style of Japanese woodblock printing known as ukiyo-e (‘images of the floating world’) flourished during the Edo period (1603–1867). Artists captured the vibrant spirit of the ‘floating world’, a ...

View ukiyo-e woodblock prints by some of Japan's most famous artists of the Edo period (1600-1868) at a scale you’ve never seen before in this larger-than-life digital art exhibition. Titled A Massive ...