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In the early years of the Meiji era, Buckland explains, Japanese artists created first-rate scrolls and peerless cloisonné enamelwork. They also continued meeting local and tourist demands for ...
During the Edo period, Japan, for the first time, moved from artistic isolationism to absorbing and transmitting outside influences. Here, per the screen’s gallery text, Edo art parodies ...
Traditional Japanese erotic art – shunga – flourished during the Edo period (1603–1867), along with the rise of ukiyo-e woodblock printing. Some of the greatest artists of the time, including Kitagawa ...
ART REVIEW Harvard art exhibition ventures deep into Japan’s thriving Edo period By Cate McQuaid Globe Correspondent, Updated March 12, 2020, 12:09 p.m.
For the first time outside Japan, A Third Gender examines the fascination with wakashu in Edo-period culture and their visual representation in art, demonstrating how they destabilize the ...
During a highly restrictive era for women, she trained within the Kanō tradition, which combined the ink and brushwork of Chinese paintings with the color and ornament of Japanese art.
Armor from the Collection of Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller" is on view Through Aug. 3 at Tulsa's Philbrook Museum of Art.
Cherry blossoms, a high fence and retainers, style of Tawaraya, circa 1600-1643, Edo period, 1590-1640, Edo period, 1590-1640 Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer ...
Put together by the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, it is derived from the estate of businessman John Chandler Bancroft, which donated 3,700 Japanese woodblock prints to the museum in 1901.
Shikioriori: Living Through the Seasons in Edo Japan On view February 12 - June 28, 2016 During the Edo period (1603–1868), the rhythm of the year included activities and events tied to the changing ...
College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn is celebrating Japan’s iconic Shogun era with a never-seen-in-the-U.S. art exhibit. “Hokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World, Artworks from the Chiossone Collectio… ...