The Ukiyo-e woodblock prints of Japan’s Edo period manage to speak volumes about their world without raising their voice. These delicate yet powerfully evocative images are the fullest expression of ...

Edo-period Japan (1615-1868) was an age of great social and political change—and of epic book consumption. An expanding emphasis on knowledge and creativity gave rise to sophisticated networks of ...

Kabuki actors, courtesans, ravishing teahouse girls and ghosts: These are only some of the denizens of Edo Japan’s so-called “floating world.” Their stories — and the natural landscapes in which they ...

Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Asato Ikeda -- Wakashu as third gender and gender ambiguity through the Edo period / Joshua S. Mostow -- Fleurs du mal : onnagata (female-role ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Painting blossomed in Japan during the Edo period (1615-1868), as artists daringly ...

The pulse nearly throbs at the plump neck of the peacock in Maruyama Okyo’s “Peacock and Peonies” in “Painting Edo: Japanese Art From the Feinberg Collection” at Harvard Art Museums. As of press time, ...

Performers, seen from behind, delight an audience in Katsushika Hokusai’s “Tōto shokei ichiran,” 1800. All images from the Gerhard Pulverer Collection, courtesy of the Sackler Gallery. Celebrities, ...

An exhibit of ukiyo-e depicting Japan’s tumultuous period of modernization, spanning the late Edo period and the early Meiji, is running through May at the National Museum of Japanese History in ...

A large hand-painted work by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Kitagawa Utamaro sold for HK$55.27 million ($7.1 million) to a Japanese ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about art and culture. Featuring 90 prints on loan from the Hiraki Ukiyo-e Foundation, the exhibition also includes ...

"Hokusai & Ukiyo-e" Invites Visitors to Journey Back in Time Through an Art Collection Making Its U.S. Debut and Interactive Experiences Including an Immersive Manga & Anime Exhibit, Silk & Samurai ...