Hatsune Miku/Hokusai exhibition in Tokyo lets you make your own Miku woodblock print
Printing Museum hosts mini exhibition for crossover of virtual idol and ukiyo-e art. As Japan’s first virtual idol, Hatsune Miku was a major milestone in the digital art field. She wasn’t the countries first example of making art by non-traditional methods, though, as centuries before painter Katsushika Hokusai’s ukiyo-e creations were produced using woodblock printing, […]
The Printing Museum in Tokyo is hosting a mini exhibition celebrating the crossover between virtual idol Hatsune Miku and ukiyo-e art. As Japan's first virtual idol, Miku represents a major milestone in digital art, but she is not the first example of non-traditional methods in art, as painter Katsushika Hokusai popularized woodblock printing centuries earlier.
The exhibition, titled "Polaris - Icons and Artists Across the Ages," features reproductions of original Hokusai pieces and explanations of the step-by-step process of creating ukiyo-e art, which involves adding color layer by layer using differently shaped woodblock stamps. Visitors can also participate in a ukiyo-e stamping workshop to create their own copy of Miku's super-deformed version of the Great Wave painting.
The exhibition runs from September 19 to January 11, with admission priced at 550 yen (US$3.50) plus an additional 500 yen for the workshop. The Printing Museum is located in Tokyo's Bunkyo-ku district and is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., closed on Mondays (or Tuesdays if the preceding Monday is a holiday).
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