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IDEMITSU MUSEUM OF ARTS

¡°True View of Mount Asama¡± by Ike Taiga
CULTURE
Mar 1, 2024
Ike Taiga¡¯s revolutionary act of capturing natural beauty
Idemitsu Museum of Arts showcases the Edo Period painter¡¯s realistic landscapes at the first retrospective of his work in Tokyo in 13 years.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 2, 2018
A master of Zen wisdom and dad jokes
If you are an older chubby man with a receding hairline and facing nothing but a decline into old age and death, there¡¯s always the work of Zen monk Sengai Gibon (1750-1837) to fall back on.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 3, 2017
¡®50th Anniversary Exhibition: Iwasa Matabei and Genji-e ¡ª Challenging the Classics¡¯
Jan. 8-Feb. 5
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 29, 2015
¡®Power of Characters, Power of Calligraphy III: Styles of Calligraphy¡¯
Jan. 9-Feb. 14
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 11, 2015
¡®Energy and Revival: The Art of Momoyama¡¯
Aug. 8-Oct. 12
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 8, 2015
¡®Monogatari-e Illustrated Narrative Painting: Words and Forms¡¯
It¡¯s been 24 years since the Idemitsu Museum of Arts held its last major exhibition on monogatari-e ¡ª illustrated narrative paintings that depict important scenes from Japanese traditional literature and Buddhist myths.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 14, 2014
¡®National Treasures of the Munakata Shrine¡¯
The location of the city of Munakata, on the coast of northern Kyushu and close to Oshima and Okinoshima islands, helped it become a historical cultural hub that welcomed incoming crafts shipped from Korea, China and Persia.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 18, 2013
¡®Sengai and the World of Zen¡¯
During his life as a monk, Sengai Gibon (1750-1837) was admired for not only his artistic ability but also his modesty and simplistic way of life. Despite his social status, he chose to don an everyday black robe instead of one of distinguished purple silk, and his beliefs were reflected in what is now...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 23, 2013
¡®Kosometsuke and Shonzui: The Blue and White Tea Ceramics of Japanese Admiration¡¯
Tea ceramics have long been a symbol of traditional Asian art. The ko-sometsuke and shonzui styles, or Chinese blue-and-white tea ceramics popular at the end of the Ming period were often used in Japan for a tea ceremony known as wabi-cha.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

Longform

Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
By Alex K.T. Martin

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