Instead, Buckland posits that art during the Meiji period developed gradually and combined characteristic Japanese styles with ... We hope you enjoyed this article! Before you keep reading ...

In the Meiji period, a further layer was added to these works as the Japanese were quick to accept Darwin’s ... Meiji artists adopted the European technique of soft modeling in wax before casting ...

What ensued was an era of modernization in architecture, fashion, industry, government and art like no other, gloriously evidenced in “Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan,” a building-wide ...

Japanese enamelers perfected the art during the Meiji period, bending thin wires attached ... This very curious painting has never been exhibited before." Recent discoveries: "Meiji Modern ...

Before ‘Kimigayo’ was completed, and adopted as Japan’s official anthem in 1888, a different melody had been proposed by Irish musician John William Fenton, who led a military band in Japan at the ...

Arts reporter Katherine Chen discusses the artistic perspective of the Meiji period, on display in the Smart Museum’s spring exhibition. Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan at the Smart Museum of ...