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People crossing a bridge in slanting rain in a woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige

Ukiyo-e

Ukiyo-e was an Edo-period visual culture of prints and paintings depicting actors, beauties, landscapes, stories, and urban life.

Portrait of the elderly artist Katsushika Hokusai seated in profile

Katsushika Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai was an Edo artist whose prints, books, drawings, and paintings transformed landscape imagery and visual culture.

Symmetrical stone facade of the Tokyo National Museum Honkan in Ueno Park

Tokyo National Museum

Japan’s oldest national museum, collecting, conserving, researching, and exhibiting Asian art and archaeology with a central focus on Japan.