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Imagination Is Funny: The Ukiyo-e of Utagawa Kuniyoshi |
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| Christopher Stephens |
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| Running through June 5 at the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, the Kuniyoshi: Spectacular Ukiyo-e Imagination exhibition provides one of the most extensive collections of work by the wondrous Edo Period artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi. more...
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Kikuchi Biennale IV: Forty-Nine Tales of Form and Texture at Musée Tomo
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| Susan Rogers Chikuba |
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| It's a wonder that Musée Tomo, which opened eight years ago in Tokyo's Toranomon district, remains such a secret gem among the city's many fine galleries. This preeminent venue for contemporary ceramics by Japanese artists occupies an historical hilltop location that exudes sense of place, more... |
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Shamanesses in Black and White: Yasuo Higa at the Izu Photo Museum
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| Alan Gleason |
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| For the glimpses they offer of a living legacy of Japan's primeval past, Yasuo Higa's monochrome photographs of Okinawan women performing ancient shamanistic rituals in the 1970s and 80s are a revelation. Of course, these are not really Japanese rituals; they belong to an era when the Ryukyu Islands were their own sovereign kingdom. more... |
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