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 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 ...

This year, “Mona Lisa,” by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), and “Kohan” (Lakeside), by renowned Japanese ... paddy art event in 1993 to promote locally produced rice. It features famous ...

This is the first “Yurei Zu” (ghost painting) in Japan confirmed to be an original by Okyo, a popular and influential painter from the Edo Period (1603-1867), according to a member of the city ...