By then, “shin hanga” was dying out, Marks said, in favor of a new art movement, “sosaku hanga,” in which an individual artist did all the drawing, carving and ink work.

Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) was probably the greatest single artist of Japan's shin-hanga ('modern print') movement of the early to mid 20th century. The British Museum website states : 'he has now ...

After “Sosaku Hanga": Creativity and Modernity in Japanese Prints of the 1960s and 1970s. June 5 - July 17, 2014 Opening Reception, June 6 | 5 - 7:30 pm. Sōsaku Hanga is a companion exhibition to the ...

The shin-hanga movement started in the early 20th century as a domestic effort to revive the ukiyo-e tradition of woodblock prints and painting. But it was overseas that these pieces, ...

This exhibition draws from Syracuse University's collection of over 300 examples from this influential art movement. Masters of this medium are represented; this includes the work of Utamaro, Hokusai, ...

The story of Japanese print art in the 20th century centers on its attempt to regain something of that former high-art status. "Beautiful Shin-hanga — Revitalization of Ukiyo-e," an exhibition ...

Shin-hanga is a 20th-century take on ukiyo-e, an older form of Japanese woodblock printing, that evolved as artists sought to modernize and widen the appeal of their craft.

The show, running March 29 through June 29, focuses on Shin Hanga, a Japanese printmaking movement from the early 1900s, and the cultural shifts happening as this style emerged.