Nihonga is a word that means Japanese painting. American Professor Ernest Fenollosa coined the term during his lecture, The New Theory of Art, at the …
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The Other Japan: Ruthless Warriors, Erotic Art, and Honor Culture
Discover the very best of Japanese culture and counter-culture, in these curated stories.
It was announced on Instagram on January 15, 2020 that the artist Toshio Saeki had passed away at the age of 74. Known as the Godfather of Japanese …
The Edo Period (1615-1868) was a time of political unrest, blurring of class divisions, innovations in art and technology, and a cultural shift in …
The eight-month-long Satsuma Rebellion was the last great rebellion of feudal Japan, quite literally the last stand of the disaffected samurai …
Butoh or Buto, in literal Japanese translation, means dance (bu), step (toh). Butoh dance was founded in Japan in the late 1950s. From its radical …
Late in the summer of 480 B.C., a sweat-soaked King Leonidas of Sparta stood in the narrow mountain pass at Thermopylae, days into a brutal battle …
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was a self-proclaimed “old man mad with painting” towards the end of his life.