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 ...

Author and curator Rosina Buckland’s book joins a steadily growing number of titles dispelling the whitewashed argument that Japanese art of the historical Meiji era of 1868 to 1912 resulted ...

Van Gogh's Japonaiserie and Japanese art of the Meiji period / Kris Schiermeier -- Wakon Yosai -- Japanese spirit, Western techniques: Meiji period arts for the West / Gregory Irvine -- Glossary -- ...

Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan at the Smart Museum of Art offers a glimpse into a transformative period of Japanese history.Spanning from 1868 to 1912, the Meiji period was characterized by ...

Asia Society presents a fresh look at the art of Japan’s Meiji era (1868-1912), a period of unprecedented cultural and technological transition, in the landmark exhibition Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of ...

Japanese enamelers perfected the art during the Meiji period, bending thin wires attached to the vase, then once fired, filling each of the divided portions with a paste of colored enamel.

A Japanese museum is hosting its first-ever exhibition dedicated to Vincent van Gogh, which explores the Dutch painter’s ...

The significance of the Meiji Restoration, an important political period in Japanese history credited for ushering in an era of major political and social change continues to be debated extensively, ...

A Case Study of Heian Japan through Art: Japan's Four Great Emaki Emakimono or emaki, narrative picture scrolls, developed into a distinctly Japanese art form in the Heian period, 794-1185 CE.In this ...