Tokyo and Osaka Fashion News: Gucci and Luxury Market Optimistic in 2013 Kanako Itamae and Michel Lebon Modern Tokyo Times Japan is internationally famous within the fashion sector for being very dynamic when it comes to the luxury fashion market. After all, even during a long period of mainly stagnation to little growth the [...]
Japanese Culture and Art in Full Bloom: Isoda Koryusai Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Isoda Koryusai (1735-1790) produced many stunning pieces of art related to culture, females, norms within high culture, and other important areas. Unlike most ukiyo-e artists, Isoda Koryusai was born into an elite samurai household and this aspect certainly influenced his [...]
Okubi-e Portraits By toshidama Okubi-e refers to the distinctive large head to frame ratio of certain ukiyo-e (Japanese woodblock print) portraits from eighteenth and nineteenth century Japan. There’s no strict definition here as to what constitutes a portrait as separate to an okubi-e, although there perhaps should be. Much of Japanese woodblock print production was [...]
Japanese Art and European Modernism: Kamisaka Sekka and Beauty within Simplicity Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The Japanese artist Kamisaka Sekka (1866-1942) lived in a very fascinating period of history in Japan and likewise his art encompasses much about the inner-struggles of this nation. He was only two years old when the Meiji Restoration of [...]
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Osaka Fashion News and H&M: Monki store to open in Shinsaibashi Michel Lebon and Kanako Itamae Modern Tokyo Times The vibrant fashion district of Shinsaibashi will witness the opening of the first Monki store in Japan on June 1, 2013. This fashion brand which hails from Sweden is under the extremely popular Hennes & Mauritz [...]
Asai Chu and Japanese Art: Impact of Western Art and Great Teacher Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Asai Chu (1856-1907) was a young boy when the Meiji Restoration of 1868 began and just like this period of Japanese history he also was curious about the outside world. Times were changing rapidly and the familiarity [...]
Tokyo and Osaka Fashion News: Kate Spade Saturday Hiroshi Saito and Sarah Deschamps Modern Tokyo Times The stylish American lifestyle fashion brand, Kate Spade, is focused on opening five stores in Japan by the middle of 2013 in relationship to the sister brand. Omotesando in Tokyo was selected earlier in March this year to become [...]
Mimesis – Bunraku Puppets and Living Dolls By toshidama There is a long tradition of puppetry in Japan that stretches back to the seventeenth century. Puppet theatre predates kabuki theatre and informed much of the style, dramas and conventions that kabukiadopted and made its own. Not only does puppet theatre (bunraku) have an important place in Japanese culture but so [...]
Magic in Japan – The Body of the People By toshidama In this case not necessarily the physical body – I’m thinking here of the cultural body and how that relates to the people. When we look at the extraordinary corpus of Japanese woodblock prints from the nineteenth century we are struck firstly by its hermeticism. This [...]
Tokyo and Osaka Fashion and Lifestyle News: Ron Herman and Zara Home Tomoko Hara and Sarah Deschamps Modern Tokyo Times Ron Herman just increased its clout in Japan further by opening two new stores in two trendy areas in Tokyo and Osaka. The Grand Front Osaka was bound to hit a chord with exquisite companies [...]
Art and History of Japan: Boy Emperor Antoku and the Taira and Minamoto Clans Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The boy Emperor Antoku tragically perished before reaching seven years of age because of the political convulsions of the late twelfth century in Japan. His death and that of loyalists within the Taira says much [...]
Independent Fashion in Tokyo and Osaka: A Style Which Keeps on Refreshing Itself Michel Lebon and Tomoko Hara Modern Tokyo Times Lolita fashion began to sprout up in Japan in the late 1970s to early 1980s and over time you have had many offshoots within the “Lolita fashion style.” The clothing image and aesthetics relate [...]
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