...Donald F. McCallum Copyright © Asia Society 2003 A Standing Kannon in the Tokyo National Museum DONALD E MCCALLUM UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES INTRODUCTION One of the most beautiful pieces of Buddhist sculpture in East Asia is a small gilt-bronze...

...Jung-Ah Woo Abstract This article analyzes the various practices of the WAWA Project as a case study of community-based art after the Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011 (“3.11”). Organized by Masato Nakamura (b. 1963), the Tokyo-based artist, college professor, and director of an artist...

... for Japan that was frequently termed the economic bubble due to skyrocketing real-estate prices which proved unsustainable when the bubble burst in the early 1990s. This economy also spurred sharp increases in energy consumption and the production of greenhouse gases leading to global warming. The Tokyo...

...Richard L. Wilson Copyright © Asia Society 2003 Yamane Yfizo (1919-2001) Yamane Yfizo, Professor Emeritus of Tokyo National Yamane's research method, based on a rigorous organi- University, passed away on Tuesday, 22 May, at the age of zation of biographical and formal evidence...

... flashlight and ty-seven of heart failure in Tokyo on 6 magnifying glasses. She analyzed pigments, September, 2003. In that nation's art history counted threads of silk, searched for traces of establishment, she had risen to higher posi...

... is the literal meaning of warai, "laughter," the first chapter he sets out the importance of demo- which points to the humorous intent of a large proportion graphics: the shogunal capital of Edo (modern Tokyo), of shunga images. Time and again absurd sexual situations also the centre of printing, which may...

... in the ¯ Tokyo National Museum Collection. Photograph by permission Yakushi seated on a Mt. Sumeru pedestal. In the of DNP Art Publications. circular halo [there are] Shichibutsu Yakushi [Compiler’s note: incised?] in bas-relief. Between the flames there are many flying apsara¯ ses.30 Deities...

.... Shaka triad. oya-dera, Utsunomiya city, Tochigi Prefecture. loth c. Stone; h. of central image 354.0 cm. From Kuno Takeshi, Sekibutsu; vol. 36 of Book of Books, Nihon no Bijutsu (Tokyo: Shogakkan, 1975), F1. 42, p. 57. Photograph courtesy of Shogakkan...

... Museum, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Debates regarding the appropriateness of mining Ja- Music. As Hosono Masanobu explains, many aspiring pan’s premodern Buddhist painting tradition in search young painters were drawn to the Kangakai between of new themes for painterly expression began...

... centuries. Tokyo National Museum. Image 6 TNM Image Archives. other fragments from Mı¯ra¯n are described there simply difficult to determine whether this placement reflects as ‘‘Mural Fragments of the Six Dynasties Period their original disposition. While the theme of the upper In the 1950s, Kumagai...

.... Oil on canvas; h. 91.1 cm, w. 116.5 cm. Mukai Junkichi Annex of Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo. therefore not enough to point out that the Japanese to study oil painting at the Kansai Art Institute (Kansai government was becoming increasingly oppressive and Bijutsu-in) in 1916. coercive even...

...Figure 4. Onoe no kane yurai (Legacy of the Onoe Bell), eighteenth–nineteenth century. Woodblock print on paper, 29 × 40 cm. Waseda University Library, Tokyo. ...

... reentry to Japanese society? with his arrival on the West Coast, continuing with his After a brief period studying oil painting at the Pre- years in New York City, traveling next through the paratory Division of Waseda University in Tokyo, Kita- South, then on to Cuba, and finally through Mexico...