The museum says that "Remaking Tradition" marks the first time such a large and high-quality collection of modern Japanese art "has ever been displayed outside of Japan," which makes it, like the Fu ...

JAPAN'S ratification of the London Naval Treaty shows not only that the majority of the Japanese people are thinking along the same lines as the peoples of England and America, but also that her vital ...

The West was trending in Japan 150 years ago. That might seem like a silly way to put it, but it’s also true. After two centuries of isolationist policy, Japan was forcibly opened up to foreign ...

ALTHOUGH Tokyo is, naturally, the literary center of Japan, one of the Meccas of modern Japanese literature is a small town called Magome, in a mountain valley some hundred and fifty miles west of the ...

“Seikan Ferryboat” from the series Karasu (Ravens); Fukase Masahisa (1934–2012); Japan, 1976; gelatin silver print; partial gift from Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck, and purchased through the ...

Alternately subtle and flamboyant, hearty and austere, literary and visceral, the traditional dance idioms of Japan offer contemporary artists a vast array of experiences and vocabularies to adopt, ...

Overview: In this lesson using resources from the MIT Visualizing Cultures website, students become globetrotters, planning and documenting their journey to Japan from several perspectives. Students ...

Shirakaba and Japanese Modernism examines the most significant Japanese art and literary magazine of the early twentieth century, Shirakaba (White Birch, 1910-1923). In this volume Erin Schoneveld ...