Shin-hanga is a 20th-century take on ukiyo-e, an older form of Japanese woodblock printing ... involved layering multiple colors in the printing process to create depth, texture and subtlety ...

This time, we want you to look at a mid-19th-century print by Utagawa Hiroshige of Japan: “Great Bridge: Sudden Rain at Atake ...

Printmaking is a process close processA way of doing ... (after Hiroshige)' in 1887 to show what he admired in Japanese woodblock prints. In prehistoric times, humans made a type of print by ...

But there was another, lesser-known side to Jobs’ interest in Japanese culture. He was an ardent fan and collector of shin-hanga, or modern woodblock ... hanga prints. It was a quick process ...

Joichi Hoshi was a Japanese printmaker best known for his depictions of ... sometimes incorporating gold or silver leaf into the layers of the intricate woodblock process. Born in 1913 in Niigata, ...

Simply type in whatever comes to mind and the program will churn out a woodblock print. “I would like the ... technology engineer and classical Japanese literature scholar.

The library's collection is especially strong in research materials on Japanese ceramics, painting, and woodblock prints. It also has an excellent collection of resources for the study of Chinese ...

This early print impression from the 1830s is part of ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai’s 36 Views of Mount Fuji series ...

inspired by the Japanese woodblock prints the artist had been avidly collecting. Garden with Weeping Tree, Arles (1888) is strikingly soft, juxtaposed by the same tree in Weeping Tree (1889) which is ...

TOKYO (AP) — An unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 ...