Imaging Japanese History is an online curriculum designed to enhance ... In this lesson, students consider a major art form of the period—woodblock prints—as historical documents providing a visual ...

Vast majority of prints on display have never been seen before with several being the only surviving examples in the world ...

The latest among them is “The Print Generation” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art. This exhibition focuses on the generation of Japanese printmakers in the early decades of ...

French Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) and Edo-era Japanese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) never met and were alive at the same time for only nine years. But sometimes your ...

This module focuses on Japan’s medieval period ... If having students work online is not feasible, print out and label the images and post them around the room or at tables where groups can examine ...