The Floating World” transports visitors to a time when Japan was emerging from the feudal era and modern cities were booming.

The art of Japan’s Edo period is undeniably beautiful, influencing creators across the centuries. Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai is most famous for his woodblock print, “Under the Wave off ...

Without the Japanese printmaker Hokusai, Impressionism might never have happened. Jason Farago examines the moment when European art started turning Japanese. In the beginning was the wave. The ...

This is “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” a woodblock print by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai and one of the world’s most iconic pieces of Asian art.

For his 2020 “Space Kicker,” painter Shinro Ohtake also employed simplified shapes in a collage that imagines an “Olympic scene far removed from Earth.” An abstract, pink “god of games ...

Cincinnati, New York and Hanford, Calif. Whether a black-and-gold lacquer box or the vibrant print of a cresting wave, a samurai’s helmet or a flowing silk kimono, Japanese works are a familiar ...

The Art Institute notes that "The Great Wave" is not a painting but a commercially-produced print—mass-produced to the tune of thousands and continuing to be printed even after Hokusai died ...

The world’s most powerful passport just got a little bit more beautiful. Japan will start issuing passports featuring art by ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai for people applying from February 4.