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 ... It is a museum dedicated to a famous potter and ceramist named ...

The three works are believed to have been drawn between 1931 and 1933, according to a team of Japanese art experts who studied the pieces. “These are the starting point for Okamoto, which no one ...

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 ...

For the five-year passport, 16 paintings are displayed in the same manner. Along with promoting Japanese culture in line with the 2020 Tokyo Games, depicting an ukiyo-e painting has also made the ...