All You Must Know About Japanese Erotic Art, Shunga (18+)
Ukiyo-e art, pictures of the “floating world” are famous among those interested in art history. Everyone knows Hokusai’s The Great Wave off...
Zuzanna Stańska 4 November 2022
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Masterpiece Story: The Courtesan Hinaaya of the Chōji House by Kikukawa Eizan
The Courtesan Hinaaya of the Chōji House by Kikukawa Eizan, is one of the woodblock prints from Vincent and Theo van Gogh’s collection in the Van...
Urvi Chheda 4 November 2022
Art from Horror Movies: Japanese Woodblocks of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
For centuries, gore has been part of the culture in Japan, rooted in its history. Its representation is very common in woodblock engraving pictures.
Sofia Rodriguez Cuevas 4 November 2022
The Scenes You Might Know from Anime: Outstanding Prints of Hasui Kawase
Hasui Kawase (1883–1957) was one of Japan’s most important and prolific printmakers and artists of the late 19th and early-20th centuries. As a...
Isabella Hill 4 November 2022
How Japanese Woodcuts Are Made
Hokusai’s Great Wave from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji and Hiroshige’s The Plum Garden in Kameido from One Hundred Famous Views of...
Irina Diana Calu 4 November 2022
Masterpiece Story: Maple Trees at Mama by Utagawa Hiroshige
Utagawa Hiroshige’s prints were exported to Europe and became very popular with Western artists. Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh owned...
James W Singer 27 October 2022
The Hidden Gems of the Van Gogh Museum
Every museum has its share of highlights. There are those that struggle with so many that it is difficult to make a list of reasonable length. The...
Joanna Kaszubowska 12 October 2022
Autumn Moon in Japanese Woodblock Prints
Does anyone here live by the water? If you do, you will probably confirm that evenings have something transcendental when the moon reflects on the...
Magda Michalska 23 September 2022
Hokusai’s Great Wave Explained
You might not know the title of Hokusai’s print, but Under the Wave off Kanagawa is almost instantly recognizable. His Great Wave reveals...
Marina Kochetkova 12 July 2022
Japan’s Greatest Masterpiece: (Thirty) Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai
Everyone knows The Great Wave off Kanagawa, the print created by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai. But not everyone knows that The...
Zuzanna Stańska 12 July 2022
Japonisme: Western Fever for Japanese Art and Culture
During the mid 19th and 20th centuries, Western art saw the birth of Japonisme. The term was coined by Philippe Burty in 1872 and refers to the craze...
Jimena Escoto 10 May 2022
Here Are the Japanese Winter Prints: The Art of Ukiyo-e
The Ukiyo-e genre of art flourished in Japan between the 17th and 19th centuries. The term translates as “picture[s] of the floating...
Zuzanna Stańska, Kate Wojtczak 21 December 2021
