Celebrating ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai’s 260 birthday, a complete out-of-this-world Hokusai art exhibition will be held this summer. The complete “Hokusai Manga” or Hokusai Sketches collection and “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” print series will be displayed. Another portion of…
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Japanese folklore enthusiasts and horror fans alike will find new excitement in the 2020 Youkai Pandemonium exhibition. An eerie yet fascinating exhibit, it is located at the Grand Gallery on the 1st floor of the Kadokawa Musashino Museum, being one…
Asuka Anastacia Ogawa in her “Medicine girl” (2019) and “Lilly” (2019) exposed at Blum & Poe Tokyo, depicts androgynous children in chimerical dreamscapes, scenes formed from solid fields of color and flat picture planes. Her subjects have wide thin eyes…
The Japanese rapper, Awich, is going on a national tour around Japan after the release of her new album, Peacock. The tour kicks off in Yokohama and totals 27 dates across Japan. The Okinawan native started writing poetry when she…
Butoh is an impressive and obscure form of dance that originated in post-war Japan in the 1950s. Now, its fame has spread all across the world. Za Koenji Public Theater will stage a butoh performance in March, as well as inviting various…
