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 ...

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 -- ...

Join us on December 20 for an insightful presentation by Dr. Chelsea Foxwell, co-curator of the Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan, now on exhibit at the Asia Society Museum.Dr. Foxwell's ...

The art of t The 19th century was a significant period of upheaval for Japan as the country transitioned from the waning Edo era into the dawn of the Meiji era. Go to the content Go to the footer ...

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 ...

The Meiji Restoration of 1868 eventually came to impact all of society, ushering in rapid change – and Westernisation – in fields from military organisation to fine art.

VOX POPULI: We all owe a debt to Meiji Era pioneers of the art of translation Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun. November 12, 2022 at 12:48 JST ...

Then there’s Meiji-mura in central Japan northeast of Nagoya. The open-air museum pays homage to Western-inspired architecture that appeared in Japan as it opened its borders to foreign trade ...

The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion) shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. Japanese history credits Meiji for modernizing Japan by incorporating Western ...

Join us for an insightful presentation by Dr. Chelsea Foxwell, co-curator of the Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan shown at the Asia Society Museum until early January and from this March in ...

There is an art to art collecting that involves quite different skills from those employed by artists. People tend to assume it's all about rich people spending money, but, if that was all that ...