Art, Life, Japan
And everything in-between
YUMEJI MODERN: DESIGNING THE EVERYDAY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY JAPAN (PART 2)
Book talk by Nozomi Naoi
Check it OutYUMEJI MODERN: DESIGNING THE EVERYDAY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY JAPAN (PART 1)
Book talk by Nozomi Naoi
Check it OutKIYOSHI SAITO: GRAPHIC AWAKENING
JASA sponsored lecture on Kiyoshi Saito presented by Dr. Rhiannon Paget
Check it OutJORYŪ HANGA KYŌKAI, 1956–1965
JASA sponsored lecture on Japan's Women Printmakers presented by Dr. Jeannie Kenmotsu
Check it OutYOU CAN NOW STAY THE NIGHT AT A JAPANESE CASTLE IN NAGASAKI
Check it Out20 OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACES IN JAPAN
Check it OutHOW THE GREAT WAVE INSPIRED STARRY NIGHT
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Check it OutTHE BAKEMONO ZUKUSHI "MONSTER" SCROLL (18TH–19TH CENTURY)
Check it OutKOBAYASHI KIYOCHIKA'S CARTOONS OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR (1904–5)
Check it OutJAPANESE FIREMEN’S COATS (19TH CENTURY)
Check it OutHOKUSAI'S GHOST STORIES (CA. 1830)
Check it OutEVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT YOKAI
Check it OutKAWANABLE KYŌSAI’S NIGHT PARADE OF ONE HUNDRED DEMONS (1890)
Check it OutTHE MET’S JAPANESE ART COLLECTION AVAILABLE ONLINE
Check it OutA DREAMLIKE JAPAN IN ARTIST’S COLLAGES
Check it OutBRITISH MUSEUM ACQUIRES 103 RECENTLY RESURFACED, HOKUSAI DRAWINGS
Check it OutHOKUSAI‘S ENCYCLOPAEDIC MANGA PROJECT
Check it OutMARTIN SCORSESE AS VAN GOGH IN A SHORT, SURREAL FILM BY AKIRA KUROSAWA
Check it Out60 MINUTES EXPLORES THE WORLD OF KABUKI
Watch VideoA GIFT OF JAPANESE ART
The MET, Freer and Sackler, and Portland Art Museum will receive 550 Japanese Artworks!
Check it Out400 YAERS LATER KABUKI KEEPS ITS APPEAL
Check it OutJAPANESE PASSPORTS USE UKIYO-E FOR MAXIUM PROTECTION
Check it OutSCULPTORS CARVE OUT SPACE FOR THEIR ART IN JAPAN
Important works popping up throughout Japan
Check it OutANATOMY IN 19TH CENTURY JAPANESE PRINTS
Illustrating the inner workings of the human body
Check it OutHOW TO MOVE A MASTERPIECE
Interesting article about shipping art and the many pitfalls one might encounter.
Check it OutDIGITAL ARCHIVE OF 213,000+ JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS
An amazing resource for collectors and scholars.
Check it OutA DEEPER LOOK INTO THIS FASCINATING WORLD OF HARUKI MURAKAMI
The dark places this writer encounters.
Check it OutCHEMICAL BROTHERS, THE CURE, SIA, AND MORE AT FUJI ROCK ‘19
This line-up is getting hot!
Check it OutTHE 100 RESTAURANTS IN TOKYO YOU MUST TRY
From cheap eats to Michelin-starred stalwarts.
Check it OutONE OF JAPAN’S MASTER PRINTMAKERS
Watch a British Museum produced video on one of Japan’s most important living printmakers.
Check it OutRARE FILM FOOTAGE OF 1929 KYOTO
Newsreel featuring actual sound footage of Japanese city life at that time.
Check it OutLIKE FIREWORKS AS DESIGN MOTIFS?
Free download of hundreds of Japanese illustrations of fireworks from the 1800s.
Check it OutREMEMBERING LILLIAN MILLER
The Pioneering Woodblock Artist Caught Between East and West.
Check it OutJAPAN THROUGH THE EYES OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
The famed architect’s photographs from his first trip to Japan.
Check it OutCONVERSATION WITH TWO TOP HASUI COLLECTORS
Rene and Carolyn Balcer discuss the ins and outs of collecting Hasui.
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