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 ...

The exhibition will be held from July 25 to Oct. 18 at the museum in the Ueno district of the capital's Taito Ward.

Traditionally Nippon-e-awase involved a court dialogue between, say, an emperor and a famous artist who would then undergo a scathing critique. In this contemporary version, Tsuji presented works by ...

At least four works by a famous convicted forger have been discovered in Japan. Transparency about the mistakes, however, has sparked as much curiosity as scandal.

French painter Henri Matisse first came into contact with ukiyo-e woodcut prints in the early 20th century, when various world fairs brought Japanese art to Europe. Struggling to get his own career ...

Painting the Classics comprises three exhibitions that explore how early modern Japanese artists reimagined narratives and poetry from Japan’s classical age. Literary accomplishments of the Heian ...

Part of the appeal of the 19th-century woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e (“floating world pictures”) is that their subject matter is so distinctively Japanese. But that couldn’t last. The same ...