The significance of the Meiji Restoration, an important political period in Japanese history credited for ushering in an era of major political and social change continues to be debated extensively, ...
Nearly 150 years ago, a female traveler from Britain arrived in Japan. It was May 1878, the 11th year of the Meiji era. Only ...
NEW YORK, October 3, 2023 — Asia Society Museum celebrated its fall 2023 exhibition, "Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan," at a members-only opening and reception on Tuesday night. The exhibition ...
Arts reporter Katherine Chen discusses the artistic perspective of the Meiji period, on display in the Smart Museum’s spring exhibition. Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan at the Smart Museum of ...
The West was trending in Japan 150 years ago. That might seem like a silly way to put it, but it’s also true. After two centuries of isolationist policy, Japan was forcibly opened up to foreign ...
Approaching Japan's artistically diverse and politically entangled history of art is a formidable task, not least because English-language art history publications on the multifaceted subject are few ...
The ornate Yomei-mon Gate at Nikkō Tōshō-gū, a Shinto shrine in Japan’s Tochigi Prefecture, has one pillar that stands upside down. The orientation is deliberate: builders in 1617 did not want to ...
The main character, Mei Ayatsuki, an ordinary high-school girl, is transported back in time to the Meiji era by the self-proclaimed magician Charlie, whom she meets on the night of a red full moon. It ...
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