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The Storyteller's Storyboards Film director Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) is perhaps more famous outside Japan than any other of...

Takanori Oguiss: The Japanese Utrillo

When I first saw the oil paintings of Paris by the Japanese artist, Takanori Oguiss (1901-1986), I was strangely reminded of the neutron...

Exhibition: Ryusei Kishida

Road Cut through a Hill (1915) by Ryusei Kishida Innovation and Exploration: Kishida's short but brilliant career When Japan opened up...

Exhibition: Tokimune Hōjō

Leaves left by the divine wind When England was conquered by the Normans in 1066, it was profoundly changed. We might expect the same to h...

Exhibition: Ukiyo-e at the Turn of the 20th Century

Sight at Ochanomizu (1880) by Kiyochika Kobayashi Ukiyo-e reflects turn of century mood changes across Japan The Meiji period is considere...

Exhibition: Samurai Swords

The heart of the samurai and the soul of the swordsmith Modern warfare is increasingly being depersonalized by long range missiles, so-cal...

Interview: Katsura Funakoshi

Two Heads are Better than One. What distinguishes an artist from a craftsman? Well, an obvious difference is the pricing of their ...

Exhibition: Baur Collection

Ukiyo-e treasures make brief return The Baur Collection of ukiyo-e by several of Japan's top masters is this country's own version ...

EXHIBITION: SHINSUI ITO

A passionate embrace of Nihon Shinsui Ito (1898-1972) was a central figure in Japan's artistic identity crisis during the 20th ...

Exhibition: The Dutch in Dejima

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A peep into Tokugawa Japan During the almost two and a half centuries when Japan shunned the rest of the World, the one Western country tha...

Exhibition: Henri Riviere

The Japanese never tire of telling us how they were responsible for all the major developments in late 19th century European painting. T...

Exhibition: Six Provocative Nihonga Artists

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The big joke here is that Nihonga artists are supposed to be the least provocative people on the planet – serenely grinding their organic p...

Exhibition: Itoh Jakuchu

The good thing about this exhibition – centering on Japanese painting from the 18th and early 19th centuries – is that it reflects art t...

Exhibition: Giacometti and Yanaihara

Alberto Giacometti (1901 – 1966) is widely considered the greatest sculptor of the 20th century. Originally attracted to Cubism and Surreal...

Exhibition: Boston Museum of Fine Arts Ukiyo-e Collection

Ama Divers with Abalone by Kitagawa Utamaro One of the effects of Japan's Westernization was an exaggerated devaluing of everyth...

Exhibition: Jiro Yoshihara

Temperamentally, there are two main types of artist. There is the tortured loner, working hard in his atelier, taking a few minutes from hi...

Exhibition: Seiki Kuroda