He was a commercial artist; many of his pictures – "of crowds milling over bridges towards famous shrines" or "twirling their parasols" in celebrated beauty spots – are essentially tourist posters.

Cat-spotting is just one playful way to explore the craft culture of one of Japan’s top woodworking towns, which has been ...

Glass may be fragile, but when it's melted, it can be molded into a brand new shape. Just like her medium, 53-year-old Kurumi ...

When debating the best video game to ever do hand-to-hand combat, discussions can often range over a plethora of titles, but ...

Hiroshige's vibrant woodcuts capture everyday life, landscapes, and culture during a transformational era in Japan.

In the days following the quake, the 20-year-old Chiura Obata, who had only been in the country for three years, grabbed his ...

Yoko Ono was a successful artist before she met John Lennon, but she is often boiled down to just being The Beatle's wife, if ...

This is my favorite anime episode of the year to date. Everything that Apocalypse Hotel does well is done even better here.

The Beginning After The End anime is available on Crunchyroll. The Beginning After The End webtoon is available on Tapas .

Artist Nikas Safronov said he created the painting in hopes that the artwork would strengthen U.S.-Russia ties, the Russian Embassy in Kenya said on Wednesday in a post on X. The painting depicts ...

I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

Yaegashi’s oni holds an iPad because, the artist says ... threatened to wipe out Japanese as a written language, as cited by the American anthropologist and art historian Jennifer Robertson ...