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Art of diplomacy: 300 years of Japanese art in Britain’s royal collection
A Queen’s Gallery exhibition tells the story of centuries of artistic and cultural exchange between east and w…
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Kyōsai review – wild satirical swipes at the western world
Royal Academy, LondonLike Hogarth on sake, the artist’s quirky works wittily satirise the human carnival of fo…
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Yoshitomo Nara: ‘My works’ roots are in fairytales, not comics’
Housed in a custom space made from cast-offs, the Japanese artist’s cartoon girls blend fairytale lore with 60…
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‘I go too far, too deep’: the Swiss wanderer who found the soul of Japan
In 1951, Werner Bischof was sent to cover the war in Korea. The photographer instead found himself captivated …
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UK royals’ Japanese artefacts to go on display at Buckingham Palace
Exhibition will include items amounting to ‘one of finest’ holdings of Japanese art in the westJapanese treasu…
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Yayoi Kusama pumpkin sculpture washed into sea by Japan storm
Experts consider possibility of rebuilding artist’s work, which was swept off a pier near NaoshimaExperts are …
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Tokyo review – lust and loneliness in Japan’s pleasure quarters
Ashmolean Museum, OxfordA seductive encounter with past and present at the Olympic city shows that Tokyo pract…
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‘Boundless invention’: British Museum to show more than 100 unseen Hokusai works
Drawings were for a planned work by The Great Wave’s creator called The Great Picture Book of EverythingMore t…
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To infinity and beyond: the spectacular sensory overload of Ryoji Ikeda’s art
Incandescent light, the thud of Kyoto nightclubs, particle physics … it all goes into Ryoji Ikeda’s extraordin…
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Imperial War Museum unveils film marking 75 years since Hiroshima bomb
Video by Es Devlin and Machiko Weston tells story of nuclear bombing in Hiroshima and NagasakiA powerful 10-mi…
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The soul of Tokyo: unseen shots from a Japanese master – in pictures
Issei Suda is regarded as one of the most important names in Japanese photography. The striking world he captu…
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Yayoi Kusama’s message to Covid-19: ‘Disappear from this earth’
The veteran Japanese avant-garde artist has issued a poem of defiance in the teeth of the ‘terrible monster’, …