The leading authority on Japanese art history, from earthenware figurines in 13,000 B.C. to manga and modern subcultures, tells the story of how the country has nurtured unique aesthetics, prominent ...

He cited Nobuo Tsuji, the Japanese art historian who Murakami said was the first to hold manga in high esteem in the context of Japanese art history.

Biographies: Frank Feltens is Curator of Japanese Art at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art. He holds a PhD in Japanese art history from Columbia University. Feltens is a specialist in ...

An exquisitely illustrated and enlightening new book reveals the screen’s unique role in Japanese history and culture from its origins to the 20th century.

Art History Hokusai’s ‘The Great Wave’ Crashed Into Art History—and Changed It The iconic Japanese print has inspired everything from Impressionism to Emojis.

This May, we invite Dr. Rachel Saunders, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Curator of Asian Art from the Harvard Art Museums where she is responsible for the Japanese collections to Art for Breakfast. The ...

She is the author of Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting: Kano Hōgai and the Search for Images (2015). In 2012 she co-curated the exhibition Awash in Color: French and Japanese Prints with Anne ...

Yoshiaki Shimizu, the Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, Emeritus, and a renowned scholar of Japanese art history, curator and Princeton graduate alumnus, died on Jan. 20, 2021, of lung cancer ...

Japanese collectors spent billions on European paintings during the bubble economy of the 1980s. Officials today hope to inspire a new generation of art lovers.