The British Museum will take visitors on a journey through Edo Japan this summer through an exhibition of prints by Utagawa ...

Edo period in Japan lasted from 1603 to 1867/1868. During this time the country was ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate. Hokusai’s Great Wave from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji and Hiroshige’s ...

22.2 x 35 cm. (8.7 x 13.8 in.) ...

Edo period in Japan lasted from 1603 to 1867/1868. During this time the country was ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate.

KYOTO – “Shikkoku,” which uses the character for “lacquer” and means “jet black,” is the perfect word to describe the deep and lustrous surface of lacquerware. Maki-e is a technique in which gold ...

(Photo Courtesy Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art of Genoa) Works by artists such as Hokusai and Hiroshige offer a window into life during a time when the city of Edo (present-day Tokyo) ...

KYOTO — “Shikkoku,” which uses the character for “lacquer” and means “jet black,” is the perfect word to describe the deep and lustrous surface of lacquerware. Maki-e is a technique in which gold ...