Japanese collectors spent billions on European paintings during the bubble economy of the 1980s. Officials today hope to inspire a new generation of art lovers. The artist Yuko Mohri in her studio ...

Photo provided by: AOI Pro Meanwhile, the Omishima Museum of Art features contemporary Japanese paintings within an atmospheric building lined with traditional washi paper interiors. You can reach ...

In 1831, a Japanese master artist named Katsushika Hokusai created what would become one of the world’s most recognizable images. His woodblock print “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” depicting ...

he qualified the inclusion of Yasuo Kuniyoshi by noting that the artist was an “American, born in Japan”. It was an important recognition of the artist when other museums at the time had ...