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Toshusai Sharaku was a mysterious Japanese print artist of the late eighteenth century. He produced over one hundred and fifty designs in a startling display of innovation and imagination in the ten...

Scholars, collectors, and other lovers of ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world) are constantly faced with questions of connoisseurship in assessing prints. Aside from the basic (and most important...

This exhibition presents around 35 egoyomi, a type of print in which calendar markings are incorporated cleverly into the design. In the lunar calendar system that was used in Japan until 1873,...

Hiroshige stands as an incomparable artist among the many designers of ukiyo-e [pictures of the floating world]. His prints and paintings are a marvelous evocation of rain, snow, mist and moonlight....

The printing of black ink on paper is the most basic formula for printed images the world over. In Japan this method was first employed before color printing became widespread in the 1760s. Such...