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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here is a book that has been given a wide berth in the current literature series due to its “complexity”. However, a closer look at the novel depicts profound literary stylistics, significant ...

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 ...