Few people today have heard of Kajiwara Hisako (梶原緋佐子, 1896-1988) so it is welcome news indeed that four of he…
By Alice Gordenker Shima Seien (島成園, 1892–1970) worked as a Nihonga painter at a time when few women in Japan …
Millions of people around the world have seen the work of Tokolo Asao, yet few would be able to produce his na…
Readers of Japan Living Arts are invited to attend special performances of Noh and Kyogen at the Oyama Afuri S…
Japan’s relationship with tattoos is notoriously complicated. Even at the height of their popularity during th…
Two years ago, at the age of 58, potter Zenzo Fukushima was tapped to become what is commonly known as a ̶…
No matter how much a woman enjoys lovemaking, it has to be fit in around the more mundane activities of life, …
Call her works playful. Call them sensuous. Call them decorative, even, and ceramic artist Yuriko Matsuda won’…
At age 91, artist Toshiko Okanoue is very much in the spotlight. An influential publisher just released a book…
Text and Photos by Alice Gordenker Masao Nagata of Nagata Indigo Dyeing Works (長田染工場) in Izumo, Shimane demons…
