The artist, in a solo exhibition of paintings spanning three distinct eras of his career, was surprised by the interest and insights of visitors who stopped...
An exhibition in Tokyo from July 2–7 will showcase 60 works by the painter and ukiyo-e collector Toshihiko Isao, reflecting his decades-long artistic journey.
Some of the diverse and lesser-known individual artworks of 19th-century artist Kawanabe Kyosai are introduced with special features analyzed by the author.
Many works of the often neglected artist Kobayashi Eitaku ended up abroad, including one in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, similar to the one introduced...
At a flea market, I found a pair of six-panel folding screens on the ground after a rain depicting a village festival. They were by Kobayashi...
Ukiyo-e caricatures, mischievous demons, and cosplay bunnies by Kuniyoshi and his disciple in this 15th of the series are as fun now as they were 250...
Artist and ukiyo-e collector Toshihiko Isao shares insights into the folk beliefs and art forms that ordinary people turned to as they battled epidemics in past...
Toshihiko Isao receives the 15th Award of the International Ukiyo-e Society for being the scholar in Japan to focus on the appeal of the artist Utagawa...
The need for lightweight souvenirs gave birth in the 1620s to the Otsu-e, simple paintings on paper with popular themes.
So many ukiyo-e were published in the past, not just by Kuniyoshi. I believe that the works discovered so far are only the tip of the...
The 103 sketches for The Great Picture Book of Everything by Hokusai never made it back to Japan, but they did resurface in Europe in June...
~As you can see, painting and music have always influenced one another and developed in spite of their different means of expression.~ (Part 13 of a...
