Bakeneko grew up in Japan and inherits inspiration from Nihonga (Japanese paintings). He learned the simple but intricate drawing style from his grandfather. "Japanese paintings use a lot of patterns, ...

A detail from "The Battle of Imjin River," a hand-painted cotton banner used for festivals and performances, made in 1888. The exhibition, "Japan: Form & Function," fills the Crow Museum of Asian Art ...

Everything has its beauty, but not every one sees it. — Confucius. “THERE are cases,” says the critic Moto-ori, “in which a precise reproduction of a thing as it is in nature produces a bad picture ...

THE magnificent exhibition of classical Japanese painting and sculpture which toured the United States two years ago amazed the American museum public with its revelation of a tradition comparable in ...