“I knew they were something,” Christina Kean says about the three Japanese woodblock prints she came across ... Kean says she and her husband watched the sale online and enjoyed seeing the ...

Joichi Hoshi was a Japanese ... woodblock process. Born in 1913 in Niigata, Japan, Hoshi began his artistic career after working as an elementary school teacher in Taiwan for several years. He later ...

Lai Shaoqi was a Chinese calligrapher and painter known for his expressive woodblock prints. Born on May 16 ... The artist went on to fight the Japanese, was arrested, and broke out of prison. Lai ...

Tech icon Steve Jobs was fascinated by Japanese culture, and was particularly passionate about shin-hanga woodblock prints. Interviews with former colleagues and friends reveal that his lifelong ...

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Most patrons of the arts are familiar with the visual characteristics that define woodcut prints on paper, yet few are aware of wood engravings. Both mediums are reverse image print processes in which ...

Last week, two prints of Hokusai’s The Great Wave fetched over $800,000 each at auction in New York. Both Christie’s and Bonhams sold a print of the iconic ukiyo-e seascape in sales that coincided ...

Miller’s woodcut prints are marked by these encounters, but their influence remains subordinate to the strong individuality of his person and artistic genius. Silhouettes are identified with the ...

And according to those who knew and worked with him, this aesthetic sense developed early and was influenced heavily by Japanese art — especially the modern woodblock prints, or shin-hanga ...

The popular store is filled with various collections of Japanese books ... Koketsu attends auctions for old books and ukiyo-e woodblock prints every week, hoping to find rarities and bargains.

Rain. You forgot your umbrella. That’s what’s happening in this Japanese woodblock print — only it’s Tokyo (then called Edo), the year is 1857, and we’re crossing the Sumida River.

This print has two names: 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa' and 'The Great Wave'. Hokusai used a type of printing called woodblock printing. Woodblock printing began in Japan and is one of the oldest ...