Nihonga can help to heighten our awareness of the changing seasons or the beauty of nature—I want people to think of it not as some remote or inaccessible form of refined art, but as something ...

From the early 1880s, painting in Japan became bisected. Yōga was used to categorize works in oils that were inspired by European painting movements and nihonga became the umbrella term for a ...

Yuka Sakuma is a painter and illustrator based in Nagoya, Japan. Inspired by the nihonga school, her work has been exhibited at home and abroad. We caught up with her to discuss the origins of her ...

Nihonga is a very distinct form of painting originating in Japan from around the year 1900, named to distinguish it from the growing influence of Western painting styles, dubbed yōga.

Nov. 2-Dec. 22. Colors have always played an important role in nihonga (Japanese-style painting), sometimes featuring as significant aspects of artists' signature styles. For Kaii Higashiyama ...

The Nihonga style of painting incorporates mineral pigments, and sometimes ink, with other organic pigments on silk or paper. The term was coined during the Meiji period, roughly 1868 to 1912, to ...

Nihonga artists were required to stick to landscapes and other staid topics. “It’s all flowers and Mount Fuji,” says Nishimura. “But that stuff doesn’t sell anymore. ...

Nihonga, which he studied from 1986 to 1993 as a university doctoral candidate, was a stiff reaction against Western influence on hitherto cloistered Japan.