Osaka was obsessively in love withkabuki… its actors and dramas… with the milieu of the theatre and the associated bohemian world of arts appreciation, poetry cliques and modern ideas. Woodblock printing more or less ceased to exist for several years ...full story

Born in Aichi Prefecture and graduating from Kyoto City University of Arts (M.A.) she has brought in katazome, a traditional dyeing method in Japan, to the world of painting, and has created new contemporary art. She has won 19 prizes including Kyoto ...full story

She first became aware of art restoration as a profession while she was trying to gain admission to Tokyo University of the Arts. She devoted a year to studying to pass the entrance examination after failing on her first try. In the summer of that year ...full story

Yasui Sotaro (1888-1955) was born in Kyoto and he is famous for yoga (Western-style) portraiture. It is clear that this talented individual understood his vocation because he pursued a career in art despite his family desiring a more commercial career.full story

The National Museum of Art, Osaka, is currently presenting “Your Portrait: A Tetsumi Kudo Retrospective”, a retrospective of works by the Osaka-born Tetsumi Kudo, to run until 19 January 2014. The exhibition offers a comprehensive study of over thirty ...full story

... created by prominent painters, artists and sculptors. The exhibition celebrates Emperor Akihito's 80th birthday as well as the 50th anniversary of the museum. Nov. 9-Jan. 13. The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Okazaki Enshoji-cho, Sakyo-ku ...full story

The Japanese artist Yokoyama Taikan (1868-1958) was born in the year of the Meiji Restoration which was meant to usher in a period of new dynamics related to modernity. It is factual that many major changes did occur during the Meiji period but ...full story

born from a creative collaboration between architect ryue nishizawa and design office nendo, the small 'roof and mushrooms' pavilion overlooks the campus of kyoto university of art and design. a single, undulating roof contours down a steep hill along ...full story

That's because it's the lavish accompaniment to its new exhibition, “Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art.” Almost every one of those hundreds of pictures, including some in glorious, meter-long fold-out, is an example of the titular Japanese ...full story

Your Portrait was one of Kudo Testsumi's favorite and most frequently used titles. While the word "you" indicated the person looking at the work, and suggested that we are constrained by a variety of established values and conventions, it also referred ...full story