The museum’s founder, Charles Lang Freer, did meet Tessai three times while visiting Japan at the turn of the last century. Freer “didn’t buy a painting, but he talked to Tessai about art ...

(Sumi-e is a Japanese style of black ink painting.) Born in San Jose, Calif., and raised there and in Japan, Ms. Yamamoto was incarcerated in three internment camps for Japanese Americans during ...

The British Museum’s exhibition on the Japanese master printmaker Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) will include Van Gogh’s own copy of a print which he used in a painting in homage. Hiroshige ...

Hokusai brought to life a monumental wave that would become a worldwide icon. Behind this print lies a history of artistic ...

She knew more than the average Japanese about lacquer in Japan, but it was only in Vietnam that she started to learn this skill and create something herself. She knew more than the average Japanese ...