Utagawa Hiroshige, "Ryōgoku Ekōin and Moto-Yanagibashi Bridge" (1857) (all images courtesy the Brooklyn Museum) The Brooklyn Museum’s Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (feat. Takashi Murakami) is ...

Just under 200 years ago, a revolution shook Japan’s art world. It went on to hit Europe like a typhoon. Until the 1830s, the woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e — pictures of the “floating world” of ...

How much do we really know about Hiroshige? Thanks to the medium of mass-produced woodblock prints, his masterful, uniquely exquisite designs spread rapidly, becoming widely beloved throughout his ...

The samurai rulers of the Edo period in Japan (1615-1868) were catalysts of change as well as being cool looking swordsmen in robes with a code of conduct that makes everyone who has existed since ...

Utagawa Hiroshige: The Moon Reflected Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, until 20 Jan Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, 8 Mar-26 Apr White as snow? That is exactly what it looks like. In fact, it looks more like ...

Ronin Gallery opens Landscape Masters: Hokusai, Hiroshige, Hasui & Yoshida, an exhibition celebrating Japan’s most iconic interpreters of the natural world. In 1835, a tortoiseshell cat measuring more ...

Hiroshige's early years -- Japanese prints of the floating world -- Studying with Utagawa Toyohiro and Hiroshige's early career -- Early series of Bijinga -- Actors of the kabuki theatre on stage -- ...

Two hundred years ago, Dutch merchants opened shipments of porcelain from Japan to find the packing material was delicate rice paper, printed with brightly colored scenes of Japanese life. When the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In Utagawa Hiroshige’s “Shōno — Sudden Rain Shower” (c1833-35), porters carrying a palanquin race for shelter.

The British Museum’s major new tribute to the 19th-century Japanese master Utagawa Hiroshige is an exquisite foil for modern life Alastair Sooke has been covering art for the Telegraph since 2003. He ...

Japanese woodblock prints have been so popular, so pervasively influential and so widely reproduced over the past century and a half that it’s tempting to think that we know them quite as well as we ...

Two hundred years ago, Dutch merchants opened shipments of porcelain from Japan to find the packing material was delicate rice paper, printed with brightly colored scenes of Japanese life. When the ...