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 first scholar in Japan to focus on the appeal of the artist...
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...
(Part 12 of a Series) Continuing from my previous article, I would like to talk about the short story Musashino by the writer Kunikida...
(Part 11 of a Series) I am often introduced as an artist who paints Musashino, but I realize that I haven’t talked about Musashino...
(Part 10 of A Series on Ukiyo-e) The exhibition Last Ukiyoe: Inheritors of Ukiyo-e from the Isao Toshihiko Collection at the Ota Memorial Museum...
(Part 9 of a Series on the Ukiyo-e Art of Kuniyoshi) From November 2 to December 12, 2019, prints from my collection were...
The Ota Memorial Museum of Art in the heart of Tokyo’s Harajuku is displaying 220 examples of ukiyo-e woodblock prints by 37 different artists dating...
(Part 8 of a Series on the Art of Kuniyoshi) This time, I will be introducing my atelier. When people hear the...
