Floating world: Hiroshige’s Seba from The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Highway (1830s) - The Trustees of the British Museum The Tōkaidō was the most important route in 19th-century ...

Time was when Japan’s cheap prints of almond-eyed prostitutes, grimacing kabuki actors and brawling porters were as popular as penny dreadfuls, and treated with no more regard. Few Japanese mourned ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — The curator of a new exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints is asking you to take deep look with him at two significant strains of artistic evolution taking place within the genre ...

Calves bulging and back rippling with sinewy muscles, Du Xing – a bandit in the Chinese martial arts novel “Water Margin” – moves towards a precipice. His arms are raised overhead, clutching a massive ...

Some of the most beautiful treasures at the Toledo Museum of Art are so ephemeral that they are seldom on display. In fact, if you miss the “Fresh Impressions” exhibit of 342 early modern Japanese ...

Kawanabe Kyosai’s 1887 print “May: Shoki the Demon Queller Riding on a Tiger, Subjugating Goblins,” from the series ‘Of the Twelve Months: The Fifth’ (Junikagetsu no uchi: gogatsu) (all images ...

Images of Americans in these prints tell us a great deal about the local culture as it met the West. They tell us, specifically, about what many Japanese feared, and desired, from the encounter of ...