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 ...

Mochizuki Gyokusei was a Meiji period Japanese painter from Kyoto. Mochizuki Gyokkei was his father. He graduated from the present-day Kyoto City University of Arts and studied under Nishiyama Suisho ...

the period of Japan’s modernization and international expansion from the 1880s through the 1920s, a time span overlapping the late Meiji, Taishō, and early Shōwa periods. The lessons draw upon a range ...

The technique, cloisonné, was technically imported from China. Japanese enamelers perfected the art during the Meiji period, bending thin wires attached to the vase, then once fired, filling each ...

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 ...