Glimpses into the Floating World: The History of Ukiyo-E is based on the Museum's varied holdings of Japanese works on paper and focuses on the popular woodblock prints produced between the 17th and ...

For those who can’t make it to Japan this summer, there is always Glen Ellyn. “Hokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World,” a multimedia extravaganza inspired by the art of 18th- and 19th-century Japan, is ...

"Today we think of ukiyo-e-"the pictures of the floating world"-as masterpieces of Japanese art, highly prized throughout the world. Yet it is often said that ukiyo-e were little appreciated in their ...

Next summer the College of DuPage’s Cleve Carney Museum of Art in Glen Ellyn will host “Hokusai and Ukiyo-e: The Floating World, Artworks from the Chiossone Collection,” a collection of renowned ...

The art of Japan’s Edo period is undeniably beautiful, influencing creators across the centuries. Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai is most famous for his woodblock print, “Under the Wave off ...

The Legend of Zelda and Donkey Kong reimagined in ukiyo-e style. Images via Jed Henry. Hokusai’s “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa” (c.1829–32) (via Wikipedia) Ukiyo-e Heroes, a new series by American ...

TO most Westerners, Japanese art spells woodcuts. This pains the Japanese, who are justly proud of their brush drawings, Buddhist sculptures and painted screens. But like American jazz, Japanese ...

During the Edo period (1603-1868), the government of Japan ruled its people through a strictly enforced social hierarchy. Within this structure, most forms of self-expression were banned entirely or ...

In Yoshitomo Nara's 1999 series In a Floating World, the artist utilizes the traditional genre of Ukiyo-e, which literally means "pictures of the floating world." Ukiyo-e describes the traditional ...