Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World intricately weaves a tapestry of themes that resonate deeply with the complexities of human experience in post-war Japan. Each theme serves as a ...

Centered on the extraordinary appeal of "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai, this exhibition offers a smartly ...

College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn is celebrating Japan’s iconic Shogun era with a never-seen-in-the-U.S. art exhibit. “Hokusai ...

The art of Japan’s Edo period is undeniably beautiful, influencing creators across the centuries. Japanese artist Katsushika ...

This 19th-century Japanese screen of the Floating World depicts Tokyo’s notorious pleasure district, but it’s probably all imagined This delightful, dancing picture at Harvard Art Museums ...

TO most Westerners, Japanese art spells woodcuts ... meaning literally “pictures of the floating world.” For the great period of Japanese printmaking (1650-1850), the “floating world ...

Prints by Edo artist Utagawa Kunimasa will be on display as part of “Hokusai and Ukiyo-e: The Floating World, Artworks from the Chiossone Collection,” an art exhibit being presented at the ...

On exhibit last week, the Met’s 339 Uki-yoye (“pictures of the floating world”) were new proof that ... Glowed the New York Sun’s scholarly art critic Henry McBride, after seeing the ...