Asia Week New York, the highly anticipated annual celebration of Asian art and culture, will return for their 16th year from March 13-21. Heritage Auctions is honored to offer a rare, early impression ...

Hiroshige: Artist of the Open Road will debut in May and will celebrate the life and work of Utagawa Hiroshige. Born in 1797, ...

The existence of such establishments is documented in a “ukiyo-e” woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), an acclaimed artist active toward the end of Edo Period. A large sign that ...

It is 1830. Utagawa Hiroshige is a fire warden from a low-ranking samurai family who is struggling to establish himself as an ukiyo-e artist. One day, he learns about a new paint called Berlin ...

“It may prove an excellent educational tool to deepen the understanding of the appeal of the works of Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), if Hiroshige-like images created by AI are compared with real ...

Swimming Carp (Utagawa Hiroshige, 19th Century) shows how the body of a fish has been divided into five equal lengths – one for the head, three for the main body and one for the tail.

With its splendid branches and white plum blossoms, this famous painting is known for captivating Van Gogh. Discover why people were able to tell this was a specific tree at Kameido Umeyashiki.

Utagawa Hiroshige, along with Katsushika Hokusai, is widely recognized in the world of Ukiyo-e, Japanese Woodblock Print. However, it is lesser known that Hiroshige was also a firefighter while he ...

There is no doubting Van Gogh’s reverence for the Japanese masters such as Hiroshige, but his attempts to re-create their calm artistry surely added to his personal torment ...