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Tech icon Steve Jobs was fascinated by Japanese culture, and was particularly passionate about shin-hanga woodblock prints. Interviews with former colleagues and friends reveal that his lifelong ...

And according to those who knew and worked with him, this aesthetic sense developed early and was influenced heavily by Japanese art — especially the modern woodblock prints, or shin-hanga ...

Hiroshi Yoshida was a Japanese artist known for his woodblock prints, watercolors, and oil paintings that often depicted landscapes. He was a prominent figure in the shin-hanga movement. Born in 1876 ...

But the influences flowed both ways. In Japan, the mass-produced woodblocks that excited Van Gogh and Whistler yielded to sosaku hanga (“creative prints”), inspired by Western ideas of self ...

He was also a member of a Roundtable Discussion at The Asian Art Museum titled Japanese Woodblock Prints: From Classical To Modern. He recently discussed Shin Hanga and Sosaku Hanga prints at a ...