The focus of “The 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Period: Making and Designing Meiji Arts and Crafts” at The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, concerns the relationship between nihonga ...

spanning the late Edo period and the early Meiji, is running through May at the National Museum of Japanese History in Sakura, Chiba. Nishiki-e (literally “brocade print”) is a technique used ...

10 1⁄8 x 9 3⁄8 x 1 ¾ in. (25.7 x 23.8 x 4.5 cm.) 14 3⁄8 x 23 ¾ x 5 ¼ in. (36.5 x 60.3 x 13.3 cm.) ...

From the yellowed pages of print, I felt the passion of scholars for translation during the Meiji Era (1868-1912). I appreciated the voraciousness with which the Japanese intelligentsia of the ...

The Meiji period witnessed Japan’s evolution from ... Rupert Toovey is a senior director of Toovey’s, the leading fine art auction house in West Sussex, based on the A24 at Washington ...