Japanese landscape painting, especially in its earlier stages, when Chinese ideals controlled it, seems even more formal and unreal. Yet here also we may discover much that is beautiful.

Kobayashi, now a man in his seventies, goes back in this type of painting to the Yamato-e style which flourished from the Heian through the Kamakura Period (794 to 1333); he is also inspired by ...

Koho Yamamoto studied her art in an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II and then opened a school. At 101, she still finds time to teach. By Kaya Laterman “People keep ...

These scenes epitomize his attack on post-1854 Japanese society: In the era of rapid change, chaos was king, few seemed to know what was going on, and Western culture spread like a virus. Images ...

Comprising loans and promised gifts from a single private collection as well as items from the museum’s Japanese and costume collections, “Kimono Style” also includes such non-kimono ...