Japan left as indelible a mark on the world of publishing and art as Tsutaya Juzaburo (1750–1797). A masterful entrepreneu ...

The year 1603 marked the beginning of the Tokugawa Era in Japan, also known as the Edo Period ... Ukiyo-e, or woodblock prints, evolved too, later becoming world famous in the 19th century ...

In the 1830s, at the tail end of Japan’s flourishing Edo Period, two artists set out to ... to line up one of Eisen’s or Hiroshige’s prints with the real thing. In Hiroshige’s rendering ...

a period in China when uniformity and obedience to the party and state meant that artists were not only told what to do, but how to do it. Illustrative woodblock – or woodcut – prints were ...