See the Groundbreaking Work of 20th-Century Printmakers Who Formed an Innovative Arts Society in Japan The sosaku hanga movement, now explored in an exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art ...

Opening Oct. 26, the National Museum of Asian Art will unveil “Japanese Art from the Collection,” a reinstallation of its permanent collection of objects from Japan with over 60 works ranging from ...

One of the most-told stories about 19th-century art recounts how prints from Japan, suddenly available in the West after the country was wrenched open in the 1850s, profoundly altered European ...

A Window into Modern Japan: Using Sugoroku Games to Promote the Ideal Japanese Subject in the Early 20th Century. Sugoroku, Japanese board games, have been popular since the 19th century, if not ...

At the Wrightwood 659 gallery in Chicago, an expansive, century-spanning show charts the period of art when “homosexuality” ...

Textile art on view at William Morris Gallery in “Mingei: Art Without Heroes.“ Nicola Tree. A century ago, the Japanese critic Sōetsu Yanagi, with the potters Shōji Hamada and Kawai Kanjirō ...

Gen Yamaguchi didn’t always function as an artist. Born into a wealthy family in 1896 in Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture, ...