Issey Miyake’s clothing is both theatrical and practical. The Japanese designer has died aged 84.
Nakashima Harumi, born Ena City, Gifu prefecture, 1950, Struggling forms, c2005, Ena City, Gifu prefecture, porcelain, under and overglaze, 66.0 x 49.0 x 43.0 cm.
Collection of Raphy Star
A new exhibition surveys the haunting Japanese traditions and beliefs that connect the supernatural with the everyday.
Grill, a 19-year-old female California sea lion, holds a brush in her jaws after writing the calligraphy ‘Reiwa’ to mark the beginning of a new era for Japan.
EPA-EFE/Jiji Press Japan
The country has reached back more than a thousand years into its early literary heritage for an auspicious name for a new era under a new emperor.
An illustration of Japanese courtesans by Utagawa Toyokuni (1769-1825), with one courtesan showing another the
tattoo on her upper arm.
Prints of Japan
When the young Wright moved to Chicago to work for the architect Joseph Silsbee, he was introduced to Japanese prints. It changed his career, and very possibly the course of American architecture.
Katsushika Hokusai, ‘Mount Fuji viewed from the sea,’ from One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji, ca. 1834.
British Museum.