Japanese Woodblock PrintsFrom Edouard Manets portrait of naturalist writer mile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Goghs meticulous copies of the Hiroshige prints he devotedly collected, 19th century pioneers of European modernism made no secret of their love of Japanese art. In all its sensuality, freedom, and effervescence, the woodblock print is single handedly credited with the wave of japonaiserie that first enthralled France and, later, all of Europebut