WILLIAMSTOWN — The curator of a new exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints is asking you to take deep look with him at two significant strains of artistic evolution taking place within the genre ...

Time was when Japan’s cheap prints of almond-eyed prostitutes, grimacing kabuki actors and brawling porters were as popular as penny dreadfuls, and treated with no more regard. Few Japanese mourned ...

I learned today that the Japanese raccoon dog, which is neither a raccoon nor a dog, has unusually large testicles. Beloved in Japanese folklore, statues of the raccoon dog, or tanuki, often take some ...

‘Rising Sun, Falling Rain’ features over 80 ukiyo-e masterworks from the Edo Period, including landscapes by Hiroshige and Hokusai. On view through November 30. The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles has ...

Vincent van Gogh, “Portrait of Père Tanguy” (Autumn 1887), painting (all images courtesy Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam and the Vincent van Gogh Foundation) The influence of Japanese woodblock prints on ...

Favored by hardened yakuza gang members and law-abiding body art purists alike, large-scale Japanese tattoos are widely celebrated for their distinctive style, mythological motifs and vibrant coloring ...