Return to the Edo period during filmed presentations at the University of Washington on Nov. 1-2, and explore the traditional Ukiyo-e woodblock prints that have become one of the island nation’s ...

Put together by the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, it is derived from the estate of businessman John Chandler Bancroft, which donated 3,700 Japanese woodblock prints to the museum in 1901.

Well, although some 2,700 prints sounds like a lot, I think the Boston Museum of Fine Arts has something like 80,000 — and I think the Art Institute in Chicago has over 20,000.

Both men had a mania for Japanese art. Richard Gale was an extremely demanding collector and connoisseur who constantly sought to refine his collection by selling or trading up. Consequently, his ...

Hanging right alongside is a lavish print series by Hokusai made 20 years later. It depicts a house of pleasures in Edo — but now, the ladies up front are drawn bigger than the ladies in the rear.

For the first time outside Japan, A Third Gender examines the fascination with wakashu in Edo-period culture and their visual representation in art, demonstrating how they destabilize the ...

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 ...

ART REVIEW Harvard art exhibition ventures deep into Japan’s thriving Edo period By Cate McQuaid Globe Correspondent, Updated March 12, 2020, 12:09 p.m.

Shikioriori: Living Through the Seasons in Edo Japan On view February 12 - June 28, 2016 During the Edo period (1603–1868), the rhythm of the year included activities and events tied to the changing ...

College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn is celebrating Japan’s iconic Shogun era with a never-seen-in-the-U.S. art exhibit. “Hokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World, Artworks from the Chiossone Collectio… ...

Thompson, a specialist in Japanese art, has worked as a curator in that field at the MFA since 2004. The museum is widely known for its superb collection of classical Japanese artworks (sculptures ...