A new exhibition at the British Museum is to display rare and never before seen artwork by one of Japan’s most popular and ...

Floating world: Hiroshige’s Seba from The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Highway (1830s) - The Trustees of the British Museum The Tōkaidō was the most important route in 19th-century ...

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 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 ...

It’s actually 118 at the Brooklyn Museum, and the more the better. These vivid color woodblocks have much to teach Instagram, and even Murakami. By Will Heinrich If you want to understand the visual ...

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 ...

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 ...

This exhibition is something of a landmark, said Alastair Sooke in The Daily Telegraph. It is the first in this country in 25 years "to celebrate so extensively" the prolific Japanese artist Utagawa ...

"I envy the Japanese for the enormous clarity that pervades their work," wrote Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo in 1888. "They draw a figure with a few well-chosen lines as if it were as ...

It will mark the first exhibition dedicated to the artist in over a quarter of a century, and will display prints, paintings, books and sketches. The vast majority of prints have never been seen ...