“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.

Asia Society and the Japanese Art Society of America take a fresh look at the art of Japan’s Meiji era, a period of unprecedented cultural and technological transition, in the landmark exhibition ...

Rosina Buckland’s book dispels the whitewashed argument that Meiji-era art resulted from foreign influences that watered down local forms.

An art museum in this west Japan city that houses about 6,000 ukiyo-e prints and two national treasures has appointed 10 ...

A new exhibition opening at the Hope College Kruizenga Art Museum on Tuesday, Aug. 29, will explore the exciting innovations that occurred in Japanese art during the Meiji period (1868-1912) and ...

Emperor Meiji’s commitment to modernizing Japan means that Meiji-era art was significantly influenced by outside actors. In her lecture at the opening event, Rosina Buckland discussed the influence of ...

Arts of the Meiji period (1868-1912) were displayed at international exhibitions, in the galleries of influential dealers, and at fashionable stores. Artists from van Gogh, Whistler, Monet, and ...

Gain insight into the auction performance of Seifu Yohei Iii . Track the change in total sales value, performance of lots against estimate and compare the artist's sale price according to the artwork ...

The creator of this object is Kokichi Sugihara, a distinguished professor emeritus at Meiji University’s Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences (MIMS).

She enjoyed art from a young age, and at around 15 ran away from home to become a painter—eager to participate in the dynamic creative world of the Meiji era (1868–1912), when new influences ...

The Meiji era follows two centuries of Japan's near-isolation, when fiefdoms were transformed into a modern nation-state and art was reintroduced.