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While incarcerated in an internment camp for Japanese Americans in her 20s, Koho Yamamoto learned sumi-e, a type of ink painting, from an influential artist. Laylah Amatullah Barrayn for The New ...
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 ...
Takashi Murakami, one of Japan’s most successful post-war artists, has used AI to recreate Iwasa Matabei’s famous 17th-century epic gold leaf painting ‘Rakuchu Rakugai Zu Byobu’ — with ...