Working mainly amidst the modernisation push and ensuing tumult of the Meiji era, Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900) was a visionary ukiyo-e printmaker who revitali ...

An underappreciated ukiyo-e master is the focus of the largest-ever retrospective of his work in Japan, marking the 190th ...

Opening at Watts Gallery on 19 March, Edo Pop is an exhibition of 19th-century Japanese woodblock prints from the private collection of art historian and writer, Frank Milner.

IN 1911 the Mitsukoshi Department Store in Tokyo—among the oldest in the world, established in 1673 as a kimono fabric shop—sponsored a much anticipated and lucrative competition for an artwork that ...