At Azabudai Hills Gallery, Tokyo, the artist merges seemingly incompatible visual traditions, challenging the binary thinking ...

Gold and silver have long been used in Japanese painting for their decorative value, on works ranging from intimate handscrolls to large-scale screens ...

While visiting Japan as a foreign advisor hired by the Meiji government, the art historian Ernest Fenollosa (1853–1908) referred to all of the paintings he came across as “Japanese paintings.” ...