Edo period in Japan lasted from 1603 to 1867/1868. During this time the country was ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate. Hokusai’s Great Wave from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji and Hiroshige’s ...

Hokusai and Hiroshige. He was also a member of a Roundtable Discussion at The Asian Art Museum titled Japanese Woodblock Prints: From Classical To Modern. He recently discussed Shin Hanga and ...

And according to those who knew and worked with him, this aesthetic sense developed early and was influenced heavily by Japanese art — especially the modern woodblock prints, or shin-hanga ...

He painted an artwork called 'Flowering Plum Orchard (after Hiroshige)' in 1887 to show what he admired in Japanese woodblock prints. In prehistoric times, humans made a type of print by using ...