Arts reporter Katherine Chen discusses the artistic perspective of the Meiji period, on display in the Smart Museum’s spring exhibition. Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan at the Smart Museum of ...

NEW YORK, October 3, 2023 — Asia Society Museum celebrated its fall 2023 exhibition, "Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan," at a members-only opening and reception on Tuesday night. The exhibition ...

The significance of the Meiji Restoration, an important political period in Japanese history credited for ushering in an era of major political and social change continues to be debated extensively, ...

The Khalili collection: Japanese art exhibitions -- Foreword / Professor Nasser D. Khalili -- Introduction / Gregory Irvine -- Vincent van Gogh and Japan / Axel Rüger -- From Namban to Meiji: the ...

"Vase With Blossoming Flowers" (1890s) stands at nearly 6 feet tall, around the corner from a marked entrance into "Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan" at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. If you ...

An exhibition at Honolulu Museum of Art is shaped around a recent major gift from one of the museum’s benefactors, allowing them to explore a fascinating period in Japanese art, comprising paintings, ...

Satsuma pottery is from Japan. It was made in the 1860s and was sometimes purchased by American visitors to Japan and brought home. During World War I, American housewives who enjoyed hand-painting ...

At Tokyo’s Meiji Shrine, it’s not unusual for visitors to catch a glimpse of a traditional wedding, the couple led in procession by Shinto priests under a large red umbrella. Located within the ...

Political restoration, cultural transformation : The Imperial line ; Restoration of Imperial rule ; The last samurai ; Appearance ; Education ; Industry ...