Utagawa Hiroshige, known around the world as Andō Hiroshige or by just his last name, was a master of Japanese ukiyo-e. Ukiyo-e literally means ‘Pictures…
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Woodblock printing (‘mokuhanga’) is a traditional art form in Japan involving the printing of text, images, and patterns. Many intricate and famous prints have been…
The Legacy of Traditional Japanese Woodblock Prints Ukiyo-e can be translated literally as ‘pictures of the floating world’. The term describes the genre of Japanese…