In the 14th century in Japan, for example, mappō, or the end times, felt nigh, as Buddhist teachings would no longer be taught or received. This I learned at Anxiety and Hope in Japanese Art ...

So it had been for a century and a half — actually far longer ... From the death struggle that followed, the Minamoto clan emerged supreme. Japan was reborn, a land now of warriors and war ...

Born into a wealthy family in 1896 in Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture ... to be seen as legitimate artists in the mid-20th century. “This art form wasn’t really recognized at the time in ...

A century ago, the Japanese critic Sōetsu Yanagi, with the potters Shōji Hamada and Kawai Kanjirō, coined the term Mingei (“art of the people”), an elision of minshūteki kōgei ...

With one of the most comprehensive collections of Japanese art in the world ... In the central space, a pair of spectacular 17th- and 18th-century folding screen paintings, both safely behind ...

Yūzū Nenbutsu Engi (Origins of the Yuzu Nenbutsu Sect) 融通念仏縁起 (detail), Handscroll, Kamakura or period, 14th century, Japan, Ink, color, and gold on paper, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian ...

Poster House in New York is hosting a new exhibition that sheds light on the role of poster art in Japan during the 1900s, illustrating how it echoed society as well as shaped it. The show is called ...

This ruling puts an end to the long-standing legal dispute between the countries concerning the 50cm (20 inch) statue stolen from Kannonji, a temple on Japan’s Tsushima island in Nagasaki ...