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C.B. Liddell
CULTURE / Art
Dec 9, 2000
Nishiki-e outshine Chinese prints
"The Birth of Nishiki-e," the current exhibition at the Ota Memorial Museum of Art, claims to be an attempt to explore Chinese influence on ukiyo-e, Japanese print art.
CULTURE / Art
Dec 2, 2000
Treasures of ancient China
Until the 16th century, when the first Europeans reached these shores, China had, for over 1,000 years, been the sole foreign influence on the development of Japanese culture. Some of this influence had been refracted through Korea, but Korea itself was in a position similar to Japan's: a recipient of...
CULTURE / Art
Nov 18, 2000
A peep into Tokugawa Japan
During the almost two and a half centuries when Japan shunned the rest of the world, the one Western country that remained on nodding terms was the Netherlands. This year the two countries are celebrating 400 years of continuous contact in what must be one of the strangest international relationships...

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