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 ...

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 ...

It is an interesting footnote in art history that while a great deal of intimate information is known about the lives of the great Western artists, little or nothing is known of their equally majestic ...

“..Though many of Hiroshige's scenes in the Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces have become representative of actual important places, the artist did not create ...

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 ...

The British Museum’s exhibition on the Japanese master printmaker Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) includes Van Gogh’s own copy of a print which he used in a painting in homage. Fresh research reveals ...

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 ...

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.

Two hundred years ago, Dutch merchants opened shipments of porcelain from Japan to find the packing material was delicate rice paper, printed with brightly colored scenes of Japanese life. When the ...

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 ...