Utagawa Hiroshige, "Ryōgoku Ekōin and Moto-Yanagibashi Bridge" (1857) (all images courtesy the Brooklyn Museum) The Brooklyn Museum’s Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (feat. Takashi Murakami) is ...

The Japanese master’s weightless gaze birthed not only French impressionism but also the whole ideal of art as a way of capturing momentary glimpses of everyday joy The only thing wrong with the ...

How much do we really know about Hiroshige? Thanks to the medium of mass-produced woodblock prints, his masterful, uniquely exquisite designs spread rapidly, becoming widely beloved throughout his ...

Utagawa Hiroshige: The Moon Reflected Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, until 20 Jan Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, 8 Mar-26 Apr White as snow? That is exactly what it looks like. In fact, it looks more like ...

Just under 200 years ago, a revolution shook Japan’s art world. It went on to hit Europe like a typhoon. Until the 1830s, the woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e — pictures of the “floating world” of ...

From the brushstrokes of a sumi-e master to the colorful prints of Hokusai, and through Zen gardens where every stone has its own story, Japanese art is a skillful blend of refinement, humor, and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In Utagawa Hiroshige’s “Shōno — Sudden Rain Shower” (c1833-35), porters carrying a palanquin race for shelter.

The samurai rulers of the Edo period in Japan (1615-1868) were catalysts of change as well as being cool looking swordsmen in robes with a code of conduct that makes everyone who has existed since ...

Heritage Auctions is honored to offer a rare, early impression of The Great Wave as a centerpiece of its March 20 auction, Masterpieces: Japanese Prints from The Nelkin Collection, coinciding with New ...

The British Museum’s major new tribute to the 19th-century Japanese master Utagawa Hiroshige is an exquisite foil for modern life Alastair Sooke has been covering art for the Telegraph since 2003. He ...

Japanese woodblock prints have been so popular, so pervasively influential and so widely reproduced over the past century and a half that it’s tempting to think that we know them quite as well as we ...