
Category: Japan culture


Japan art and Katsushika Hokusai: Eclectic mix

Japan art and flow of Europe: Fujishima Takeji

Japan art and Tōshi Yoshida: Calm Before the US carpet-bombing storm

Japan art and Shiba Kōkan: Western-style artist of the Edo Period

Japan poetry and Takuboku Ishikawa (1886-1912): Pyotr Kropotkin

Japan art and Buddhism: Sengai Gibon (1750-1837)

Japan poetry and Uejima Onitsura (1661-1738): Useless dreams, alas

Japan art and Kawai Gyokudō (1873-1957)

Japan novelist and Doppo Kunikida (1871-1908)

Japan art and female artist Uemura Shōen (1875-1949)

Japan novelist and Ashihei Hino: Leftist, nationalist, to writing solace before suicide

Japan art and Takeuchi Seihō (1864-1942): Kyoto artist

Japan art in the snow: Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)

Japan novelist and Haruo Umezaki: Sakurajima and nationalism under PM Kishida

Contemporary Japanese art: The radiant moon and Buddhism

Japan art and Sakai Hōitsu: Snow, the Moon, and Cherry Blossoms

Japan art and exquisite art of Watanabe Shikō (1683-1755)

Japan novelist and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa: Tragic ending

Japan art and Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891)

Japan poetry and Hideo Oguma: Socialist leanings and northern sadness

Japan art and Goshun: Flow of Buddhism, China, Confucianism, and Kansai

Japan art and Tomioka Tessai (1837-1924): Anti-China and modern nationalism

Japan novelist and Takiji Kobayashi (1903-1933): Communist martyr

Japan art and the Edo artist Katsukawa Shunzan

Japan novelist and Futabatei Shimei (1864-1909): Inspired by Russia

Japan art and Yamamoto Baiitsu: Edo artist

Japan novelist and Ichiyō Higuchi (1872-1896): Tragic life

Japan art and Toshikata Mizuno (1866-1908)

Japan novelist and Miyamoto Yuriko (1899-1951): Communist, Feminist, and torture

Japan art and Mori Sosen (1747-1821): Delightful art of animals

Japan literature and Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916): The afterthought

Japan art and Ohara Koson: Kacho-ga art of birds and nature

Kanae Yamamoto and Japan art: Legacy of Russia

Japan art and Natori Shunsen: Tragedy of life

Japan art and Hishida Shunsō: The ticking clock of life

Japan art and Kitano Tsunetomi: Impact of Osaka

Tokyo art and Koshiro Onchi: Sosaku Hanga

Japan art and Takahashi Shōtei: Beauty of snow

Japan at and Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950): Lover of nature

Japan art and Hokusai: Mount Fuji and the working-class

Japan art and Goyō Hashiguchi: Death bed art

Japan art and Yamamura Kōka (Toyonari): Meiji to Showa

Saitama tourism: Heirinji Buddhist Temple in easy reach of Tokyo

Contemporary Japanese artist: Buddhism, Shintoism, and Monks in the snow

Taisho Japan (1912-1926) and Uzaki Sumikazu: Postcards and children

Japanese contemporary artist: Trees, Shinto, and contrast

Japan art and the richness of Shin Hanga

Japan art and the last Meiji ukiyo-e flourish

Japan art and tragic life of a socialist sympathizer: The state apparatus

Japan art by Sakai Hōitsu and Buddhism

Rinpa art in Japan and its link to Nichiren Buddhism

Female warrior in 12th century Japan: Tomoe Gozen and art

Japan tourism and Shintoism: Samukawa Shinto Shrine in Kanagawa

Japan art and Takeshiro Kanokogi: A world turned upside down

Japan art and Shinto: Mountains in blue, Buddhism, and Kami

Japan art and the early life of Kanzan Shimomura

Japan art: Adorable mixture of trees and the lone Buddhist monk

Japan art and Sakai Dōitsu (1845-1913): Mount Fuji

Japan art, China, and Zen Buddhism: Hakuin Ekaku (1686-1769)

Saitama tourism and Buddhism: Delightful Chichibu

Tokyo artist during the Edo era: From fishmonger to esteemed art

Dutch winter landscapes based on Hendrick Avercamp by Japanese artist

Japan art and Western influence in late Edo and early Meiji

Japan art and Buddhism – the mirror of life!

Art of Japan: Depictions of women in Edo Period

Japanese art and the majesty of the sky

Tourism in Nagano and Jigokudani Monkey Park

Buddhism and the Japanese calligrapher Sugawara Mitsushige: Bodhisattva Kannon

Japan art and influence of China: Sakaki Hyakusen and Buddhism

Japan poetry and a life blighted by ill-health: Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902)

Japan art and Hishida Shunsō: A life cut short

Japan art and Gyoshu Hayami (1894-1935)

Japanese art and Tanaka Hōji (1812-1885)

Japan art and culture: Kaihō Yūshō (1533-1615), Buddhism, and China

Japan art and the fusion of ideas: Watanabe Shikō (1683-1755)

Art of Japan and Ikeda Koson: Hinoki Cypresses

Japan art and rinpa: Buddhism and high culture

The Chinese artist Shen Quan and his stay in Edo Japan: Sublime nature

Japan art and Yanagisawa Kien: Edo artist influenced by Buddhism, China, and Confucianism

Japan art and the individualism of Nagasawa Rosetsu (1754-1799)

Japan art and bijan-ga (beautiful ladies) of the Edo Period

Japan art and self-portrait while dying: Iwasa Matabei (1578-1650)

Japan art and the intriguing Hanabusa Itchō (1652-1724)

Art of Japan and Sanraku: Pre-Edo period to early Edo and anti-Christianity

Art of 12th century Japan: Mitsunaga and a glimpse into the ending of the Heian Period

Art of Japan and Hishida Shunsō: Nature and Buddhism

Art of Japan and the Middle Kingdom (China): Buddhism, Confucianism, and other ideas

Art of Japan and exquisite birds by Yamamoto Kōitsu (1843-1905)
