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#Art #JapaneseArt Moonrise over Waterfront Village by Takahashi Hiroaki (Shoutei) (1871-1944)




A popular flower carpet event featuring a design inspired by Hokusai's "Great Wave" is taking place in Brussels this week to mark the 160th anniversary of Japan-Belgium diplomatic relations. japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/… #japan #belgiumjapanrelations #belgium #brussels #katsushikahokusai #japaneseart



You don't need to speak Japanese to understand "A Dictionary of Color Combinations," the country's foundational text of color theory that has spread across the world. In fact, "the colors speak for themselves." japantimes.co.jp/life/2026/06/… #life #styledesign #japanesefashion #clothing #japanesecrafts #painting #japaneseart



mastodon.social/@tanyelcakmak/… tanyelcakmak@mastodon.social - The artist who inspired anime ⛩️:

Tsuchiya Koitsu (1870–1949) — a master of Shin-hanga whose woodblock prints captured moonlit temples, rain-soaked streets, and still ponds with breathtaking quiet. Trained for 19 years under ukiyo-e master Kobayashi Kiyochika, he later pioneered the use of light and shadow to give his landscapes an almost cinematic emotional weight. A quiet giant who inspired generations — including anime.

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Found this little charming guy as I was on Pinterest and omg so cute from an old Japanese painting.
(Origins may be questionable)

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Homeless Tokyo Adventures

Here's a short video taken over the last 2 weeks in Tokyo.

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"Heron in Rain," Ohara Koson, 1928.

Ohara (1877-1945) was a Japanese painter and printmaker of the shin-hanga school, a style that revived the old ukiyo-e stylings with modern influences.

Although his work includes some animal prints, historical works (mostly of the Russo-Japanese War), and some portraits, he's best known for his kachō-e works, or bird-and-flower, a style that began in China but spread all over Asia, from Korea to Iran. Bird-and-flower paintings are exactly that: Birds and flowers, and often very charming and decorative.

This print of a heron doesn't have flowers but it's one of Ohara's most popular works and reproduced often. The simplicity of the heron in the rain, presented with few details, verges on the abstract, and is a very good example of what the shin-hanga school could do.

From the Art Institute of Chicago.

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