Mt. Fuji is Japan's tallest and most famous peak. As an active volcano, it has also inspired awe and terror. Mt. Fuji has also inspired artists, including Katsushika Hokusai, as seen in his famous ...

It was while walking the (deceptively long) stretch between Odeonsplatz and St. Ludwig that I first encountered the ...

Traditional Japanese erotic art – shunga – flourished during the Edo period (1603–1867), along with the rise of ukiyo-e ...

The Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints keeps age-old methods alive by creating ukiyo-e prints in collaboration with artisans ...

"The First Homosexuals" traces how the coinage of the term "homosexual" has shaped queer art and expression through the ages.

The Japanese embassy, in partnership with the Japan Foundation and the Greater Amman Municipality (GAM), on Wednesday launched the Hokusai Manga exhibition at Ras Al Ain Gallery, ushering in a fresh ...

National Palace Museum Southern Branch associate researcher Chu Lung-hsing introduces the woodblock print "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai at the museum in Chiayi County on Monday.

Hiroshige is slightly less well known than the older Hokusai, the great polymath, the Leonardo of Japanese art if you like, ...

Fan art inspired by Studio Ghibli anime is nothing new ... The latest space for such discussion is within the Japanese government itself. In a House of Representatives Cabinet Committee meeting on ...

Hiroshige is widely regarded today as the finest landscape painter of the ukiyo-e era, the 200-year period, lasting until the end of the 19th century, with which Western audiences associate ...

Floating world: Hiroshige’s Seba from The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Highway (1830s) - The Trustees of the British Museum ...