There are two figures. One is feminine, the other is masculine. The masculine figure seems to be farther away because he is much smaller and higher in the image. The feminine figure takes up about a ...

Hiroshi Yoshida was a Japanese artist known for his woodblock prints, watercolors, and oil paintings that often depicted landscapes. He was a prominent figure in the shin-hanga movement. Born in 1876 ...

A chat with the architect behind the New York institution’s transformation and an art historian’s view on it, plus a chat ...

Born in 1797, Hiroshige spent his life crafting detailed pictures of Japan’s natural landscape ... Japanese found emotional ...

Tech icon Steve Jobs was fascinated by Japanese culture, and was particularly passionate about shin-hanga woodblock prints. Interviews with former colleagues and friends reveal that his lifelong ...

But there was another, lesser-known side to Jobs’ interest in Japanese culture. He was an ardent fan and collector of shin-hanga, or modern woodblock prints. When Jobs unveiled the first ...

Pitched by Sakana AI, a Japanese ... in a snowy garden.” Limited hues and an uneven, irregular backdrop of dark blue checked off more requirements typical of woodblock prints.