Architecturally, Japandi can be detected on a home’s exterior as much as its interior, be it the lines and materiality or the ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art's big spring foray into Japanese modernism provides a fresh perspective on the 20th century, while also highlighting how the museum still needs to explore Western art ...

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 ...

Matsukuma, the champion of Japanese modernism, considers the impending demolition of the Okura emblematic of broader problems in Japan. “We should think more fondly about architecture and think ...

Walk past Philadelphia’s Museum of Modern Art, past the zoo and deeper into West Fairmount Park’s blanket of woods and you will eventually happen upon a traditional piece of 17th century Japanese ...

“Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan” is a building-wide exhibition and much of it shows a fusion of old and new, traditional and modern, Japanese and foreign.

A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Japanese Prints and Drawings in the Cotsen Collection (1800-1950). Princeton University ...

Chika Sagawa is an anomaly in the history of Japanese poetry. Born in Hokkaido as Aiko Kawasaki in 1911, she became one of Japan's first modernist poets, refusing to use the traditional poetic ...

ALTHOUGH Tokyo is, naturally, the literary center of Japan, one of the Meccas of modern Japanese literature is a small town called Magome, ...

Japanese Modernism showcases rare paintings and woodblock prints as well as magazine covers, street posters, kimonos and accessories in Art Deco and Art Nouveau designs.