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Yuhei Wada
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 23, 2011
"Ueda Souko: Busho Chajin no Sekai Ten"
During the feudal times of the Momoyama Period (1573-1615), samurai culture had come under the influence of the then growing Zen Buddhism. Buddhist art in the form of rock gardens, the tea ceremony and ikebana thus became an important part of samurai life.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 16, 2011
"Fuyuko Matsui: Becoming Friends with All the Children in the World"
Fuyuko Matsui's shocking yet attractive paintings have garnered her much attention as a modern nihonga (Japanese-style) artist. This retrospective explores Mutsui's past work and aspirations for the future.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 16, 2011
"Communication: Visualizing the Human Connection in the Age of Vermeer"
During the 17th-century, Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer became renowned for his outstanding compositional and lighting skills. Under the theme of "letters," this exhibition features the work of Vermeer alongside that of other contemporaneous painters.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 9, 2011
"Street Life: Chronicles of Europe by Seven Photographers" "Elan Photographic: Contemporary Japanese Photography"
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, social-documentary photography boomed in Europe as cameras went into more popular use. "Street Life" comprises 160 images that document the transformation of various European cities. Taken by artists such as Thomas Annan in Scotland and August Sander in...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 9, 2011
"The World of ISHIKO Junzo : From Art via Manga to Kitsch"
Fuchu Art Museum is taking the unusual stance of focusing on an art critic rather than on artists for its latest exhibition, which presents aspects of Japanese culture of the 1960s and '70s — a time of rapid economic growth and dramatic societal change.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 2, 2011
"Toshinose Kourei! Chushingura Ten: 'Kawaridane' Chushingura"
On Dec. 14, 1702, 47 samurai from Ako, in present-day Hyogo Prefecture, avenged the death of their master by attacking the mansion of the high official held responsible and killing him. "Chushingura," a historical tale of loyalty and the samurai code of ethics, is a popular story that is often dramatized...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 2, 2011
"Ben Shahn: Cross Media Artist/Photographs, Paintings and Graphic Arts"
This exhibition looks into the influence of cross-media artist Ben Shahn (1898-1969) on the development of Japanese art and design during the 20th century.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Dec 2, 2011
Karuizawa resort makes winter special
Winters in Japan can get cold. The inland regions, in particular, are doused with a heavy blanket of snow every year. It can cause problems, but in the runup to the holidays it gives people exactly what they want: a white Christmas.
CULTURE / Art
Dec 1, 2011
'Koko Ouou'
Satoshi Koyama GalleryCloses Dec. 24
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 25, 2011
"Shigemori Mirei: Hokutoshichisei no Niwa Ten"
From Dec. 4, the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art explores the essence of Japanese aesthetics through a retrospective exhibition of Mirei Shigemori (1896-1975), a Japanese garden designer and historian.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 25, 2011
"Impressionists in Prints: Angel's Tender Touch on a Sunny Afternoon"
Impressionist paintings are particularly popular in Japan, and it surprises some fans that many of the Impressionists were also skilled and committed print artists. Now, though, Hachioji Yume Art Museum presents around 130 prints from the late 19th to the early 20th century, created by well-known painters...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 18, 2011
"Giovanni Segantini: Light and Mountains"
The late 19th-century Italian artist Giovanni Segantini (1858-99) was so strongly inspired by the Swiss Alps that he moved there to paint at high altitudes. His early style of soft images in warm tones developed to brighter colors and more defined depictions that set him apart from the Impressionists...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 11, 2011
"Undressing Paintings: Japanese Nudes 1880-1945"
The nude may now be a common and popular subject for artists, but in Japan, depicting a naked person was considered immoral and obscene during the early Meiji Period (1868-1912). This exhibition explores how modern Japanese artists such as Seiki Kuroda and Busho Hara struggled to introduce Western art...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 4, 2011
"Valerio Olgiati"
Swiss architect and designer Valerio Olgiati has an office in Zurich and another in the Swiss mountainside municipality of Flims. He also worked for a number of years in Los Angeles and has recently garnered international acclaim for his daring and yet simple designs.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 4, 2011
"Asami Kiyokawa: Bijo Saishu"
Most people only think of drawing, painting and photography as the media for 2-D art works. Asami Kiyokawa, however, has chosen something different to enhance her work: embroidery.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 28, 2011
"DOMA, Akioka Yoshio Ten: Mono eno Shiso to Kankei no Dezain"
As Japan recovered from World War II, changes in economy and society accelerated. Mass-produced goods and mass-consumerism quickly became a norm.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 28, 2011
"Charlotte Perriand et le Japon"
In the early 1920s, Charlotte Perriand studied furniture design at the Ecole de l'Union Centrale des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. She was later invited by the great architect Le Corbusier to join his studio and design interiors.
CULTURE / Film
Oct 21, 2011
The best films come in 13s
The 13th anniversary of the death of celebrated filmmaker Juzo Itami seems as good a time as any for a retrospective — after all, his first name, Juzo, is written in Japanese with kanji that means "13." From Oct. 22 to 24, in conjunction with the Tokyo International Film Festival, just such a commemoration...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 21, 2011
Get on board for some art
Osaka's Keihan Electric Line might not seem like the ideal gallery space, but the city's Art Area B1 is hoping to change that.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 21, 2011
"KAWAI Gyokudo: A Retrospective"
During the Meiji Era (1868-1912), nihonga (Japanese-style) artist Gyokudo Kawai (1873-1957) developed a new aesthetic of Japanese painting by mixing the styles of two popular schools of the time: the Kano school and the Maruyama-shijo school.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

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