Japanese Art and Diverse Realities
Japanese Art and Diverse Realities Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Ogata Gekkō (1859–1920) lived through one of the most transformative chapters in Japanese history. Born at the beginning of…
Japan Art and Rinpa (Rimpa)
Japan Art and Rinpa (Rimpa) Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Suzuki Kiitsu (1796–1858) created a remarkable body of paintings in which the natural world seems to hover between observation…
Japanese Novelist Ryūnosuke Akutagawa: Life is more Hellish than Hell itself
Japanese Novelist Ryūnosuke Akutagawa: Life is more Hellish than Hell itself Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The Japanese novelist Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892–1927) was born in Tokyo during the final…
Japan Art – Edo, Meiji, and Contemporary Japanese Art
Japan Art – Edo, Meiji, and Contemporary Japanese Art Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Kubota Beisen (1852–1906) was born during the final years of the Edo Period, standing at…
Voice of Meiji Japan: Novelist Natsume Sōseki and Poet Masaoka Shiki
Voice of Meiji Japan: Novelist Natsume Sōseki and Poet Masaoka Shiki Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The celebrated Japanese novelist Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916) was born in the first year…
Japanese Art and Nature – Nishimura Goun
Japanese Art and Nature – Nishimura Goun Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The Japanese artist Nishimura Goun (1877–1938) was born into the turbulent embrace of the Meiji Period (1868-1912),…
Japanese Female Novelist and Communist (Miyamoto Yuriko)
Japanese Female Novelist and Communist (Miyamoto Yuriko) Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Japanese novelist and short-story writer Miyamoto Yuriko (1899–1951) could easily have disappeared into the comfortable conformity expected…
Japanese Art and Culture – Winds of Change
Japanese Art and Culture – Winds of Change Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Ito Shinsui (1898–1972) stands as one of the luminous masters of twentieth-century Japanese art. His work…
Edo Art and Japanese Culture
Edo Art and Japanese Culture Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The Edo period emerged in the early seventeenth century like a curtain rising upon a transformed Japan — politically…
Japanese Female Diarist and Poet during Heian Court
Japanese Female Diarist and Poet during Heian Court Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The Japanese diarist and waka poet Michitsuna no Haha (935–995) occupies a unique place in the…