Donated to TEA by Utagawa Monjinkai and the Japan Society of New York, this collection of 30 prints and accompanying lesson suggestions offer teachers the opportunity to engage their students in first ...

What would it feel like to be inside of this artwork? Image credit: Utagawa Kuniaki II, 1835 - 1888 (Japanese), Ōzumō Keiko no zu [Professional Sumo Wrestlers Practicing], 1866, woodcut on paper, 13 3 ...

“Bird and Blossom” highlights the evolution of prints in Japan from the Edo and Meiji eras into the twentieth century. Defining the 19th century of Japan, the Edo and Meiji periods gave birth to the ...

Tech icon Steve Jobs was fascinated by Japanese culture, and was particularly passionate about shin-hanga woodblock prints. Interviews with former colleagues and friends reveal that his lifelong ...

“I don’t know much about it except that it’s at least 50-60 years old ... it was indeed Japanese, identifying it as a Samurai scene and an example of a woodblock print.

Sipping my cold brew, I studied the woodblock ... an old-fashioned method of warding off bears. Did Eisen and Hiroshige have bear bells? I guessed they didn’t have Pocari Sweat, Japan’s ...

The man was Shiko Munakata (1903-1975), an iconic “hanga” (woodblock print) artist who was born ... on and insights into contemporary Japan and its culture.