Woodblock printing requires carving out an image on a wood block, in the opposite direction of what you’d like it to look like when it’s printed. Want to see her art? The show opens 5-7 p.m ...

“Woodblock printing in Japan started during the Aska Period (593-710 CE) to mainly introduce and spread Buddhism text and painting,” Kurai said while welcoming a select audience to the exhibition.

TOKYO (AP) — World-famous Japanese woodblock print artist Hokusai's art is on exhibit in Tokyo — on the license plates of scooters. The design, by a local student, blends old and new — the ...

Woodblock printing, which first appeared in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), and reached its peak during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), is a technique for printing text, images or patterns.

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 ...

An exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints, highlighting changing fashions and evolving print technologies in that country from the late 1600s through the mid-1800s, will run from Jan. 18 through June ...

Object Details author Vollmer, April Contents History and Significance -- Tools and Materials for Printing -- Washi, Japanese Handmade Paper -- Creating a Print Step by Step -- New Directions in ...

Woodblock printing techniques have been around for more than a thousand years, but letter paper decorated with woodblock-printed poems or pictures did not come into use until the late Qing Dynasty ...

Oversized woodblock printing is the main attraction at Print Jam, put on in Portland by communal art studio Running With Scissors, but the event itself is an opportunity for local artists to ...

He dissected each scene into several layers of color. He then carved each layer onto a 9-by-7-inch woodblock, covered the woodblock in ink, and printed the ink onto Japanese paper. He solifidied the ...

It was also the case, however, that in Japanese woodblock prints ferocious and threatening figures such as monsters and renegades were stigmatized by the same strange blue eyeball. Whatever the ...