But I can assure the reader that the ordinary art of Western book illustration or magazine engraving is just as incomprehensible to Japanese as Japanese drawings are to Europeans who have never ...

(The arrival of Europeans in the late 1500s and the industrialization ... hones in on how animals became a prevailing force in Japanese art. Traditional kimonos dance with designs of seashells ...

But the European and American Art Deco pieces he saw in shops were far too expensive. “I knew about Japanese art because I’d been collecting it for awhile,” he said. “I wondered if there ...

French painter Henri Matisse first came into contact with ukiyo-e woodcut prints in the early 20th century, when various world fairs brought Japanese art to Europe. Struggling to get his own ...

a boutique art fair in Europe dedicated to contemporary Asian art. To coincide with Japonismes 2018, a year of celebrating Franco-Japanese relations across cultural institutions in France ...

Asian and European art buyers raided Tokyo's art fairs ... "They are really interested in Japanese art because they know the price." By Thursday, buyers had grabbed almost all of Yoshitaka ...

One of the most-told stories about 19th-century art recounts how prints from Japan, suddenly available in the West after the country was wrenched open in the 1850s, profoundly altered European ...