Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular. Ocho, a resident of an apartment building ...

You may recognize the word Ukiyo from the famous "Ukiyo-e" art, which are well-known woodblock prints that let us see what Japan was like before photographs. In the case of Ukiyo whiskey ...

Japan recently introduced a new series of bank notes. Some of the examples of the 1,000-yen denomination are being sold ...

Shunga is a type of Japanese art by famous ukiyo-e artists of the Edo Period, such as Utamaro, Hokusai, and Kiyonaga, but the artform’s development was thwarted by social norms that tabooed sex.

Utagawa Hiroshige is a fire warden from a low-ranking samurai family who is struggling to establish himself as an ukiyo-e artist ... he publishes the "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital ...

Another snag encountered by Jed Henry, creator of Ukiyo-e, was on Kickstarter's end ... Filmmaker Freddie Wong was already YouTube famous when he launched his first Kickstarter project, teaming ...

Is there an upcoming ukiyo-e artist adding a 21st-century flair to the genre? Nope. It’s all generative artificial intelligence. And it was fed 24,038 scans of actual pieces. The Evo-Ukiyoe ...

Efforts to create a new wave of interest in Japanese art and design in Europe are in full flow as the value of their domestic ...

As the world’s first, and most famous, virtual idol, there’s a futuristic ... as we’ve seen in her hina ningyo doll and ukiyo-e woodblock prints. So for her next project, Miku is taking to the stage ...

Japan will launch new banknotes that will incorporate the world’s most advanced holography technology. This Holographic ...

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