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Pictures of Belonging at the Smithsonian American Art Museum spotlights Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo, three ...
Japanese Yokai art provides an intriguing window into the country's amazing folklore, embodying the spirit of mythical ...
Various varieties of rice are planted in the right positions. A unique image is created on the surface of the fields. This ...
Viewers can likely connect these images of specters to modern Japanese horror in films like 1998’s Ringu, and its English-language remake, 2002’s The Ring.
For his new sci-fi manga comic “Cyberpunk: Peach John” anonymous Japanese author Rootport used visuals produced entirely by an AI image generating tool.
Japan’s art market has outperformed the global industry over the past five years, according to a new report from art economist Clare McAndrew. While global sales ticked up just 1 percent from ...
Japanese art has long been associated with a simple and elegant portrayal of nature. Embodying that approach is the Nihonga movement of the turn of the 20th century, which uses all-natural ...
Questions of aesthetics, and of whether shunga deserve a place in the official history of Japanese art, have dominated, and the question of the use of these images has been avoided. Timon Screech ...
Odawara, Japan: You walk along a level daylight-filled corridor, some 300 feet long, one side lined with glass, the other with volcanic stones pockmarked by fossilized insects. Nearing the end, as ...