Japanese man destined to become a Samurai put down the sword and picked up a paint brush, and in doing so was to become the ...

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 ...

“Bird and Blossom” highlights the evolution of prints in Japan from the Edo and Meiji eras into the twentieth century. Defining the 19th century of Japan, the Edo and Meiji periods gave birth to the ...

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 ... was in the fall of 2003.

In 1831, the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai immortalized a snow-covered Mount Fuji in the background of his famous woodblock print ... have lingered into the fall as well.

And according to those who knew and worked with him, this aesthetic sense developed early and was influenced heavily by Japanese art — especially the modern woodblock prints, or shin-hanga ...