In Japan, the mass-produced woodblocks that excited ... The books, like the prints, demonstrate both a break from and a continuity with Edo-period art. Fresh techniques and independent outlooks ...

The style of Japanese woodblock printing known as ukiyo-e (‘images of the floating world’) flourished during the Edo period (1603–1867). Artists captured the vi ...

A newly discovered pair of painted folding screens have been confirmed to be the joint work of renowned Edo Period artists ... Yuji Yamashita, a professor of Japanese art history at Meiji Gakuin ...

This spring and summer, Japan’s ancient aesthetic heritage meets the cutting edge of animation. On at the Tokyo National ...

Kurara: Japanese word for dazzling, mesmerizing brilliance. The act of painting was always kurara to O-Ei, the daughter of the Edo period master ... but she soon chooses art over marriage and ...

Oluwaseun Olayiwola is a poet, critic and inaugural member of the Rose Choreographic School in Sadlers Wells East, London.

TOTTORI--Sand sculptors are putting the finishing touches on their gritty masterpieces for a special exhibition opening on ...

In Chiba, a quiet revival is taking shape, where creatives are reimagining Japan’s forgotten kominka — traditional folk homes — inviting people to slow down, reconnect with the land and question what ...