Donated to TEA by Utagawa Monjinkai and the Japan Society of New York, this collection of 30 prints and accompanying lesson suggestions offer teachers the opportunity to engage their students in first ...
A walking tour of the Kiso Valley offers glimpses of the golden age of Japan’s great printmakers. In the 1830s, at the tail end of Japan’s flourishing Edo Period, two artists set out to ...
Tech icon Steve Jobs was fascinated by Japanese culture, and was particularly passionate about shin-hanga woodblock prints. Interviews with former colleagues and friends reveal that his lifelong ...
Japan left as indelible a mark on the world of publishing and art as Tsutaya Juzaburo (1750–1797). A masterful entrepreneu ...
The Met in New York has teamed up with Band-Aid to offer bandages printed with the museum's most iconic works.
The Yōkai drawings inspired the Impressionist artists as well as the cartoons and video games that we interact with today. Read more here.
What is going on in the setting? How would it be different if the figures had different facial expressions? How would you describe the colors? The shapes? The lines? How would you describe the people ...
A chat with the architect behind the New York institution’s transformation and an art historian’s view on it, plus a chat ...
But there was another, lesser-known side to Jobs’ interest in Japanese culture. He was an ardent fan and collector of shin-hanga, or modern woodblock prints. “A Woman on a Macintosh Screen ...
Limited hues and an uneven, irregular backdrop of dark blue checked off more requirements typical of woodblock prints.