Figure 5. View of Japanese gallery, Twenty-Sixth Venice Biennale, 1952. Miwa Harumi 三輪晴美, ed. Venechia Biennāre: Nihon sanka no yonjūnen ヴェネチア. ビエンナーレ : 日本参加の40年 [The Venice Biennale: Forty years of Japanese participation]. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha and the Japan Foundation, 1995. More

Figure 9. View of Japanese pavilion gallery, Thirty-Fourth Venice Biennale, 1968. Courtesy of Bijutsu Shuppansha. More

Figure 10. View of Japanese pavilion gallery, Thirty-Fourth Venice Biennale, 1968. Courtesy of Bijutsu Shuppansha. More

Figure 8. Spread featuring works by Miki Tomio, catalog for the Japanese pavilion, Thirty-Fourth Venice Biennale, 1968. More

Figure 13. Suga Kishio (b. 1944), An Aspect as a Whole , 1978. Installation at Thirty-Eighth Venice Biennale, 1978. Photograph: courtesy of the artist, © Suga Kishio. More

Figure 14. Enokura Kōji (1942–1995), Untitled No. 12 , 1978. Installation at Thirty-Eighth Venice Biennale, 1978. Photograph by Enokura Kōji, courtesy of the artist’s estate. More

Figure 1. Masato Nakamura (Japanese, b. 1963), QSC+mV/V.V , 2001. Installation view at the Japanese Pavilion, Forty-ninth Venice Biennale, ® McDonald’s Corporation. Photograph: © Masato Nakamura. More

Figure 12. Sekine Nobuo (b. 1942), Phase of Nothingness , 1969/1970. Marble, stainless steel, 450 × 420 × 130 cm. Installation view, Japanese Pavilion, Thirty-Fifth Venice Biennale, 1970. Photograph by Sekine Nobuo, courtesy of the artist. More

Figure 1. Tanaka Kōki (b. 1975), Abstract Speaking—Sharing Uncertainty and Collective Acts , Fifty-Fifth Venice Biennale, 2013. Photograph: courtesy of the artist; Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou; and Aoyama Meguro, Tokyo. The neon sign on the facade of the Japanese pavilion indicates More