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 ...

"I envy the Japanese for the enormous clarity that pervades their work," wrote Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo in 1888. "They draw a figure with a few well-chosen lines as if it were as ...

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 ...