Tomioka Tessai (1836–1924) exemplifies the modern Japanese painter. Contemporaries praised his avant-garde works, yet Tessai created his nonconformist paintings in a traditional way, basing them on ...

Turns out she was like most visionaries – way ahead of her time. Thus began The Verne Collection. The couple accrued woodblock prints, paintings, sculptures – including those by Hiroshige, Hokusai, ...

Yūzū Nenbutsu Engi (Origins of the Yuzu Nenbutsu Sect) 融通念仏縁起 (detail), Handscroll, Kamakura or period, 14th century, Japan, Ink, color, and gold on paper, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian ...

A museum in North Carolina holds the largest Asian art collection in the southeastern United States. Not only is this museum in North Carolina, it can be found right on UNC’s campus. And this ...

Excitement builds for a rare showing of works by the 19th-century painter whose dynamic colors and bold brushstrokes mirrored the avant-garde of the West Tomioka Tessai was beloved for the personality ...

Japan’s art market has long lagged behind its strong national reputation for culture. Despite boasting the third-largest GDP, Japan currently accounts for only about 4 percent of the global art market ...

With one of the most comprehensive collections of Japanese art in the world, the museum rededicates the space with Buddhist monks from Japan’s Miidera temple Saturday. Buddhist faith holds ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Japan Cultural Promotion Project (JCPP) opened "GREEN PHEASANT" - a Japanese online marketplace showcasing and selling a curated collection of art, crafts, and collectibles ...

Katsushika Hokusai, “Tiger in the Snow” (1849), hanging scroll, ink and color on silk. Private Collection, New York. (photo by Steven Tucker) With assistantships funded at $23,000, full tuition ...

The show, which includes a promised gift of numerous modern kimonos from the John C. Weber Collection of Japanese art, is largely concerned with the Edo Period (1603-1868), when society was highly ...

A California businessman and collector of Japanese art has struck a deal to transfer his collection — nearly 1, 700 pieces worth an estimated $25 million — to the Minneapolis Institute of Art. A ...

If there is one overlooked corner of fashion history, it has to be Japanese textiles. For hundreds of years, Japanese craftspeople have made high-end fabrics from plant fibers and silk. Today, some of ...