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January 5, 2020 leejayuk

Japanese art and Torii Kiyonaga (1752-1815)

December 16, 2019 leejayuk

Contemporary Japanese art and the mirage of time in the bleak midwinter

November 13, 2019 leejayuk

Japan art before the eclipse of the Taira in the 12th century: Tragic boy Emperor Antoku

November 3, 2019 leejayuk

Contemporary Japanese artist and Utrillo in a New Transcendent Light

October 27, 2019 leejayuk

Ancient Japanese poetry of Mibu no Tadamine

October 22, 2019 leejayuk

Enthronement of Emperor Naruhito in Japan is proclaimed

October 8, 2019 leejayuk

Japanese artist and a delightful Dutch winter landscape based on Hendrick Avercamp

July 7, 2019 leejayuk

Japanese Zen Buddhist poetry by Sesson Yūbai and the impact of the Middle Kingdom (China)

June 27, 2019 leejayuk

Japanese art through the lens of familiarity but in a changed entangled state

June 17, 2019 leejayuk

Samurai Tadamori (1096-1153) in Japanese art and folklore

June 13, 2019 leejayuk

Japanese Buddhist poetry and the shadow of life: Henjō (816-890) and Sōgi (1421-1502)

June 8, 2019 leejayuk

The footsteps of death followed the Japanese poet Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902)

June 2, 2019 leejayuk

Japanese artist and her colorful and spiritual nuance of Maurice Utrillo

April 26, 2019 leejayuk

Japanese art and the brief artistic life of Shigeru Aoki (1882-1911)

April 22, 2019 leejayuk

Japanese female poetry of Izumi Shikibu of the tenth and early eleventh century

April 19, 2019 leejayuk

Japan tourism: The giant Buddhist statue at Nihon-ji Temple and Mount Nokogiri

April 5, 2019April 5, 2019 leejayuk

Art Of Buddhism and Shintoism sharing the same Japanese Tree despite the ensuing chaos

March 29, 2019March 29, 2019 leejayuk

Art of Tokiwa Mitsunaga and the backdrop of political intrigues in twelfth-century Japan

March 25, 2019 leejayuk

Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire through Japanese eyes: Buddhism, Christianity, and Shintoism

March 13, 2019 leejayuk

The poetry of Yamanoue no Okura (660-733?): Morals of Buddhism and Confucianism in old Japan

March 9, 2019 leejayuk

Shintoism inside the consciousness of Japanese culture: Art to ghost stories to solace

March 3, 2019March 3, 2019 leejayuk

Japan art and Buddhism: Dreaming of the old night view and the wisdom of Nichiren

February 5, 2019February 7, 2019 leejayuk

Japan art and Mount Fuji: Suzuki Kiitsu in color by Sawako Utsumi and the flow of Sakai Hōitsu

January 26, 2019 leejayuk

Japanese Art and the influence of Katsukawa Shunshō (1726-1793)

January 22, 2019 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Tensho Shubun: Middle Kingdom to the power of Buddhism

January 19, 2019 leejayuk

Japan art and stunning angle to Sakai Hōitsu who belongs to the Edo Period by Sawako Utsumi

January 2, 2019 leejayuk

Japan poetry and the female poet Komachi: Heartfelt passion from the distant past

December 28, 2018December 28, 2018 leejayuk

Ito Shinsui and Japanese art: Poverty to continuity

December 23, 2018 leejayuk

Japan poetry and Yosa Buson: Footsteps of Matsuo Bashō

December 13, 2018 leejayuk

Kano Sanraku (1559-1635) and art of Japan: The world of power concentration

December 9, 2018 leejayuk

Poetry of Japan and Arakida Moritake (1473-1549): Ambiance of Shintoism and Iio Sogi

December 3, 2018December 3, 2018 leejayuk

Ando Hiroshige and Japan art: Sexuality, landscapes, and becoming a Buddhist Monk

November 16, 2018 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Sado Island: Trilogy of Nichiren in the Snow during his exile

November 9, 2018November 9, 2018 leejayuk

Poetry and bleakness: Hell or heaven can’t defeat the futility of life

November 8, 2018 leejayuk

Zen Buddhism and Japanese Art: Taking Rinzai Buddhism to the rural poor

November 7, 2018 leejayuk

Japan art and one-sided love: Frailty of life despite his boundless love of Paris

November 5, 2018 leejayuk

Contemporary Japanese artist and L. S. Lowry in Full Bloom by Sawako Utsumi

November 4, 2018July 16, 2020 leejayuk

Japanese art and the small window of Nagasaki: The Chinese artist Shen Quan (Nanpin)

November 2, 2018November 2, 2018 leejayuk

Buddhist monk Jien and a window into old Japan (1155-1225): Poetry and history

October 31, 2018October 31, 2018 leejayuk

The poetry of old Japan: Yamabe no Akahito and the devoutly Buddhist Emperor Shōmu

October 29, 2018October 29, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese art, Goshun, and the influence of Buson: The artistic heaven on earth

October 27, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese art and poetry: The last throes before the ghost of time

October 24, 2018 leejayuk

Buddhist art and the Japanese priest Mokuan Reien: The Middle Kingdom and Mu Qi

October 14, 2018October 20, 2019 leejayuk

Contemporary Japanese artist and adorable landscape titled “Hakone in Natural Splendor”

October 2, 2018 leejayuk

Soga Shōhaku went against the grain in the eighteenth century: Art of the Muromachi Period

September 25, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese poet of bygone years: Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

September 24, 2018 leejayuk

The richness of Japanese art during the warring times: Kano Eitoku (1543-1590)

September 18, 2018September 18, 2018 leejayuk

Australia: The Japanese Film Festival Unveils 2018 Program

September 10, 2018March 17, 2019 leejayuk

Art and Poetry: Typhoons and earthquakes take asunder to this cold earth

September 5, 2018 leejayuk

Sengai Gibon and Rinzai Buddhism: Artistic Outreach and Buddhist Contemplation

August 30, 2018 leejayuk

The reality of poverty for the Japanese artist Eisen and his independent nature

August 12, 2018 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Kiyoo: Social and political convulsions but artistic continuity

August 7, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese culture and literature: A female tale that lasts the centuries

July 19, 2018 leejayuk

High culture and the Japanese Tea Ceremony: Legacy of history and formal settings

July 4, 2018July 4, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese Buddhist poetry of the fourteenth century: Jakushitsu Genkō (1290-1367)

June 26, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese artist illuminates a classic Dutch art piece by Hendrick Avercamp

June 20, 2018June 20, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese artist touch to Esaias van de Velde: Light of Japan on Dutch art of yesteryear

June 14, 2018September 29, 2018 leejayuk

Japan art and Kanzan Shimomura: Famous son of Wakayama and his early artistic life in Tokyo

June 13, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese art and Takeshiro Kanokogi: Influence of Jean-Paul Laurens and Emile-Rene Menard

June 12, 2018 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Matsumura Goshun: Impact of high culture, Yosa Buson, and the shadow of death

June 10, 2018 leejayuk

Japan poetry and Tendai Buddhism: The historian and poetic Buddhist monk Jien (1155-1225)

June 5, 2018 leejayuk

Art of Japan and the Death Prints of Shini-e

June 3, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese Art and Ando Hiroshige: Multiple Dimensions

May 25, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese Art and the Rich Legacy of China and Confucianism: Tanomura Chikuden

May 21, 2018 leejayuk

Art of Japan and the impact of Northern English cities on Sawako Utsumi

May 11, 2018 leejayuk

Art and culture flourished under the Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga in the 16th century

April 23, 2018 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Nishikawa Sukenobu: From the Empress to Prostitutes

April 18, 2018 leejayuk

Japan art and the paths of Shintoism and Buddhism: Holy men in the snow without Abraham

April 12, 2018 leejayuk

Old Japan and Poetry of bygone days: Yamabe no Akahito

April 6, 2018 leejayuk

International animation fans in mourning over the death of Isao Takahata: Grave of the Fireflies

April 5, 2018 leejayuk

Buddhist art from China and Japan: Kaihō Yūshō (1533-1615) and the shadow of Liang K’ai (1140-1210)

March 31, 2018 leejayuk

Confucianism and the piety of the Japanese artist Watanabe Kazan (1793-1841)

March 28, 2018 leejayuk

Ninth Century Japanese Art: Kose Kanaoka and the Cultural Richness of the Middle Kingdom

March 18, 2018 leejayuk

Art of Japan and richness of religion: Modern times and fusions of the past

March 14, 2018 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Sekka: Tranquility despite upheavals

March 12, 2018 leejayuk

Japan poetry and impact of the Middle Kingdom: Abe no Nakamaro (698-770)

February 25, 2018February 25, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese art and Kawamura Kiyoo (1852-1934): Changing times but sublime continuity

February 23, 2018 leejayuk

Japan art and the last Ukiyo-e knell of the Meiji Era: Western artists inspired by Japan

February 20, 2018February 22, 2018 leejayuk

Exile of the Holy Buddhist leader Nichiren in Japan and his representation in Art

February 19, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese Art and Kano Michinobu (1730-1790)

February 5, 2018 leejayuk

Zen Buddhist priest Mokuan Reien and Japanese Art: Fourteenth century China

January 24, 2018 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Kaihō Yūshō (1533-1615): Buddhism and high culture

January 19, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese Art and Kano Sanraku (1559-1635): Centralization and continuity

January 12, 2018 leejayuk

Chinese Artist Shen Quan (Nanpin) and the window of Nagasaki in Japan (1731-1733)

January 5, 2018January 5, 2018 leejayuk

Rinzai Buddhism and Japanese Art: Outreach dimensions of Sengai Gibon

December 27, 2017 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Soga Shōhaku (1730-1781): Deep admiration of the Muromachi Period (1336-1573)

December 24, 2017 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Kose Kanaoka: Illusive Spirit of a Ninth Century Artist and the Middle Kingdom

December 19, 2017 leejayuk

Yosa Buson and Japanese Poetry: In the footsteps of Matsuo Bashō

December 17, 2017 leejayuk

Famous Japanese Buddhist Warrior of the Twelfth Century and Japanese Art: Rich Legacy of Benkei

December 9, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese Art and the two paths of Buddhism and Shintoism: Faith in the Snow without Abraham

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