Japanese woodblock prints command a space in art history all their own, defining an aesthetic and cultural ethos that is often repeated and played off of in contemporary art today. While Japanese prints attained an undeniable status in the realm of craft and technique, a huge portion of these prints were dedicated to erotic scenes...

Huge koi and lotus backpiece and illustration from Japanese-style tattooer André Malcolm of Analog Tattoo in San José, CA. All of Malcolm's tattoos and illustrations have an amazing precision and graphic quality to them, so be sure to check out the rest of his portfolio. Can't wait to see what this guy will look like all colored in.

Uno Moralez is a mystery. No, fuck that, Uno Morlalez is a magician. No, that's not right either. Uno Moralez must be an imposter! There is little public information about artist Uno Moralez. His outdated Livejournal is basically illegible, unless you can read Cyrillic or have a translating robot better than Google, his name apparently isn't even Uno Moralez, and (GASP!) he has no Facebook page.

Last week I gushed over a few Japanese Horror Mangas in Part 1 of my "I don't know much about these but I love them" article. Well, not much has changed this week, as I still don't know much about the history and facts about the genre...

Foreign ghost movies about cell-phones, dead children and girls with uzis for hands aside, I've only recently engulfed myself in the literary insanity that is Japanese Horror Manga, so I'm not even going to bother pretending to sound like I know what I'm talking about in this article.

  Fuyuko Matsui is a female Japanese artist, specializing in Nihonga illustrative paintings with a 'grotesque' or supernatural element. Despite their often shocking aspects, she claims that her art is part of the tradition of Japanese art going back centuries.

Japanese art duo, Kami & Sasu, collectively known as HITOTZUKI, will be having an exhibition in Los Angeles at 72andSunny opening on May 26, 2011. We are still trying to gather information about the show, but we just want to note it and make you mark your calendars.