Ukiyo E News Today

A professor’s 30-year dream of assembling a complete set of “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji,” the pinnacle of the artist’s career, leads to an auction.

From the innovative pigments it used to the famous artists who were inspired by it, Hokusai's iconic image has a remarkable backstory.

Akihiko Shiota’s film about the world of Japanese erotic art feels like a crash course in “shunga” before veering into playfully risque territory.

The exhibition, which wrapped up on what would have been the rock stars 77th birthday, featured ukiyo-e woodblock prints and approximately 60 kimono.

Pittsburgh City Paper talks with Eriko Hattori, a local queer, non-binary, Japanese-American artist whose work draws from folk tales, film, and more.

Ukiyo-e expert Andreas Marks digs deep into the folklore of Japan’s most terrifying creatures, detailing 100 supernatural beings with lavish illustrations.

The new exhibition at the Ota Memorial Museum of Art showcases playful renderings of rogues and warriors from historical stories.

The ukiyo-e artist's extensive body of work devoted to Japan's oldest form of live theater has gone largely overlooked — until now.

TOKYO -- In art and design, what is old can feel new again when something from the past is rediscovered by a new generation of creative types rummagin

"Hue & Cry: French Printmaking and The Debate Over Colors," the Clark Art Institutes latest exhibition of prints, runs through March 6, 2022. The show examines how Japanese ukiyo-e prints