What time is it? It’s Halloween time! Creepy ghost stories, skeletons lurking over your heads, a whisper in the corner of your house – all of that is right around the corner! And we’re not the only ones who love a good horror story. Yes my friends, when it comes to a story that would …
Washi – a term that literally means ‘Japanese paper’ refers to the paper that’s extremely important to Japanese woodblock art. While you could do Japanese woodblock art on absolutely any paper, you might encounter several obstacles when attempting to do so on every other paper [2]. Some such problems might be that the ink bleeds …
In the early 1850s, Japan opened its borders to trade with the rest of the world, ending 200-year-long seclusion. And that’s when Japanese goods and art, especially Ukiyo-e or Japanese woodblock art began to flow into places like Paris, the US, London, etc, inspiring Western Impressionist artists to transition to a more Japanese style of …
