These Japanese prints may be famous, but look closer – they’ve been censored. Henri-Alexis Baatsch. Sat, April 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM UTC. 8 min read.

Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860 is a landmark exhibition of 140 masterworks of Japanese ukiyo-e, from commercially released prints of iconic images by ...

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After Japan was forcibly opened in 1853, the prints made their way to Europe. Sometimes they arrived as packaging, sometimes as cheap curiosities. In Paris, during the 1860s, these colourful ...

Meanwhile, in his famous Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889), from the Courtauld Gallery in London, he included his favourite Japanese ‘crépon’ (ie a print on wrinkled paper, like crêpe ...

Selected from the Portland Art Museum’s permanent collection, the exhibition “Human|Nature: 150 Years of Japanese Prints” explores Japan’s journey with and through nature during the 19th ...

The American businessman Alan Medaugh, 81, has spent 50 years building up an unparalleled collection of woodblock prints by the famed Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858).

Put together by the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, it is derived from the estate of businessman John Chandler Bancroft, which donated 3,700 Japanese woodblock prints to the museum in 1901.