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BAPE®'s New Collection Features Ukiyo-e Prints Produced by Adachi Woodcut Prints
A BATHING APE®, one of Japan’s leading street fashion brands, has unveiled a special capsule collection, “BAPE® × UKIYO-E,” inspired by the ukiyo-e of Hokusai and Kuniyoshi.
Featuring BAPE®’s iconic Ape Head motif—originally inspired by the film Planet of the Apes—this lineup includes T-shirts, tote bags, and sticker sets, along with crewneck sweatshirts, tumblers, and more. The “BAPE® × UKIYO-E” collection offers a versatile range of items to enjoy anytime, anywhere.
For this new collection, ukiyo-e reproductions produced by Adachi Woodcut Prints have been featured.
Works Featured in “BAPE® × UKIYO-E”
Katsushika Hokusai
"The Great Wave off Kanagawa -Thirty-six Views of Mt.Fuji-"
Now Hokusai's "Great Wave" is representative of ukiyo-e itself. It is one of Hokusai's most successful series, "Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji" and astonishing for its fantastic composition and powerful brushwork, showing a giant wave crashing over a boat. The low-angle perspective and shaded waves constitute the key to this work which is one of the foremost masterpieces, and most well known of all the ukiyo-e landscape compositions.
Katsushika Hokusai
"Red Fuji -Thirty-six Views of Mt.Fuji-"
This famous ukiyo-e is one of Hokusai's most successful series, "Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji". This work, Red Fuji, consists of three main elements with no superfluity: Mt. Fuji soaring high into the sky, a spacious wooded field at its foot, and the sky itself which occupies almost half of the entire composition. This is a wonderfully accurate representation of the complex aspects of nature, achieved with the minimum of lines and colors.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
"In the Ruined Palace at SOMA"
As the broken bamboo blinds part, the face of an enormous skeleton emerges from the darkness. This unforgettable work has an enormous impact even at first glance and was based on a scene from the illustrated fiction by Santo Kyoden entitled Uto Yasukata Chugi-den. More than simply an illustration of a single scene, the work is suffused with a sense of tension and disquiet that finds an analogue in the reality of the turbulent final years of the shogunate through which Kuniyoshi lived.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
"Hyakumonogatari (One Hundred Tales) -Goldfish-"
The Hundred Tales refers to the popular practice of telling ghost stories in Edo Japan. Participants would light one hundred candles, extinguishing them one by one as the stories were told. It was said that ghouls would appear from the darkness when the last candle was extinguished. Kuniyoshi, who adored cats, made a ghoulish cat appear as the born enemy of the goldfish.
The new collection was also photographed at the Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints in Mejiro, Tokyo.
Captured alongside the tools used by our artisans, the photos of the “BAPE® × UKIYO-E” collection highlight the fact that ukiyo-e, which continues to fascinate people around the world, was a woodcut medium widely enjoyed during the Edo period, and that people from all walks of life were active in shaping its culture and trends.
The collection will be released in Japan on Saturday, August 30, 2025.
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