KYOTO--Featuring erotic works created by some of the most celebrated ukiyo-e artists, the Hosomi Museum here is hosting its first “shunga” exhibition in eight years. Sponsored by The Asahi Shimbun and ...

In a complex two-year process, advisory firm Gurr Johns guided the court-ordered consignment of museum masterworks, which culminated in a white-glove sale that set new records for Utamaro and Hokusai.

Kitagawa Utamaro (?–1806) was undoubtedly Japan’s greatest artist of bijinga (pictures of beautiful women) in the ukiyo-e genre, but like many working in ukiyo-e, it took some time for him to ...

A recently discovered painting by Kitagawa Utamaro (around 1753-1806) is due to go on show for the first time this week at the British Museum. The hanging scroll from around 1805-06 shows a courtesan ...

“Inventing Utamaro: A Japanese Masterpiece Rediscovered” reunites for the first time in nearly 140 years three works by the legendary Japanese ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”) master, ...

Snow at Fukagawa by Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806), Japan, Edo period, ca. 1802–6 Okada Museum of Art Moon at Shinagawa (also known as Moonlight Revelry at Dozō Sagami) by Kitagawa Utamaro ...

Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty is not a beginner's book. Disavowing any intention to survey Utamaro's art as a whole, it consists for the most part of five chronologically and thematically ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A large hand-painted work by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Kitagawa Utamaro sold for HK$55.27 million ($7.1 million) to a Japanese private collector at an auction in Hong Kong over the ...

Seldom does a show subvert expectations as subtly and deftly as “Inventing Utamaro: A Japanese Masterpiece Rediscovered” at the Smithsonian’s Freer-Sackler. The somewhat ambiguous title seems to ...

For the first time in nearly 140 years, three paintings by the legendary but mysterious Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806) have been reunited at the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler ...

Kitagawa Utamaro was a renowned Japanese artist known for his woodblock prints and his contribution to the ukiyo-e art movement. His work often depicted bijin ōkubi-e and nature studies. Born in 1753, ...