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Browse our large collection of Japanese Prints, get your favorite and make your home a real antique museum of the Edo era. Japanese Prints in the West Japanese prints only started to be known in France in the last third of the 19th century. The World Fairs, notably those of Paris in 1867 and 1878, contributed to reveal them to the public. The artists were immediately struck by their merits. Amateurs began to search for them, and thus began to form these beautiful private or public collections, such as that of the Guimet Museum in Paris. A sort of reversal of values occurred in the appreciation of Japanese prints by critics and art historians. At first, they were struck by the qualities that, at the time of their discovery in the West, were most admired in an artist: faithfulness in the observation and artistic expression of nature. From this point of view, the supple and vigorous realism of Hokusai seemed the most accomplished expression of Japanese Art. Japanese engraving, art in the ancient times A print is an image created by printing with an engraved plate. Japanese prints are the result of the meeting of this art and an artistic movement of Buddhist inspiration, called "Images of the Floating World". The era of authentic Japanese prints extends from the 17th century, when this art is democratized, until the end of the 19th century (Meiji era), when the appearance in Japan of new techniques of engraving, at the same time as the influence of Western Art, divert talented artists towards other horizons. Techniques of realization of the Japanese printmaking Japanese prints are made from woodcuts. It is important to note that the artists to whom we owe these antique silhouettes did not engrave their works themselves. They executed their brush drawings with India ink on thin transparent paper and then delivered them to skilled engravers. In principle, the technique of the latter was very simple: they worked on blocks of Cherry or Boxwood, which, unlike the Western way