Not seen together since 1879, the significant triptych painting by the legendary Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro will be reunited in “Inventing Utamaro: A Japanese Masterpiece Rediscovered” at the ...

As the moon rises, a hawk moth flaps by a moonflower. In pre-dawn hours, a loggerhead lays eggs in the sand. A hydrangea bursts with blooms while a green kingfisher dives for fish nearby. Moments like ...

Next summer the College of DuPage’s Cleve Carney Museum of Art in Glen Ellyn will host “Hokusai and Ukiyo-e: The Floating World, Artworks from the Chiossone Collection,” a collection of renowned ...

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 ...

During the Edo period (1603-1868), the government of Japan ruled its people through a strictly enforced social hierarchy. Within this structure, most forms of self-expression were banned entirely or ...

Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860 is a landmark exhibition of 140 masterworks of Japanese ukiyo-e, from commercially released prints of iconic images by ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new trio of easy-to-construct Mobile Suit Gundam model kits combines classic giant mecha designs with Edo-period Ukiyo-e artwork.

As a kid, Gifu City artist Dakota Alexander developed a lifelong love for ukiyo-e, a style of traditional Japanese woodblock painting that became popular during the Edo period. Like many young people, ...