Born in 1899, she arrived in America from Hokkaido, Japan, with her family as a girl in 1908. She studied art in San Francisco in the 1920s, and when her paintings were exhibited in 1929 ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One of the world’s most famous paintings is now on display at the Nelson-Atkins Museum. Called “Under the ...

Japanese art was all around me while traveling through Kyoto and Tokyo ... It is a museum dedicated to a famous potter and ceramist named Kawai Kanjiro (1890-1966). His former home was turned into a ...

Harada, who kept painting nostalgic and heartwarming archetypical images of Japan throughout his painting career, died on March 2. He was 81. A native of Nagano Prefecture, Harada contracted polio ...

The painting exhibited in Tokyo—as well as four others shown in different parts of Japan—is part of a long-standing global art project called 'Kids Guernica'. Young people around the world ...

American art collector Joe Price, renowned for his marvelous collection of works made in Japan during the Edo Period (1603-1867), died of old age on April 13 at his home in suburban Los Angeles.