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Japanese Western: Style Painting Collection - The Earth in Six Chapters
07 Oct, 2025
- 21 Dec, 2025
Past Exhibitions
Remaking Tradition: Modern Art of Japan from the Tokyo National Museum
16 Feb, 2014
- 11 May, 2014
Articles
鈥淎 Reflection on the Sublime鈥� at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
MOUSSE Magazine 20 May, 2024鈥淎 Reflection on the Sublime鈥� is a group show conceived by the artist Kazuna Taguchi and structured by the artist Soshiro Matsubara. It is itself an abstract study conducted within the framework of an exhibition.
While visiting Japan as a foreign advisor hired by the Meiji government, the art historian Ernest Fenollosa (1853鈥�1908) referred to all of the paintings he came across as 鈥淛apanese paintings.鈥�
Ryusei Kishida (1891-1929) remains a giant of modern y艒ga (Western-style Japanese painting), though his idea of "modernism" would mostly have been