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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The selection takes in close to 100 items, most of which were created in the 21st century. There are also much older works that offer a retrospective look at the Japanese arts and design timeline ...

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 ...

South Korea will have to return a 14th-century Buddhist statue to Japan, the country’s Supreme Court said in a ruling on a dispute that had become a thorn in the bilateral relationship between ...