The time is short, but the opportunity rich via these two exhibitions, to bask in the military culture of old Japan, with all of its deadly splendor.
Apr 272013
Feb 202013
American readers will be intrigued by a language for sexuality that is plain but understated, neither vulgar nor coy.
Nov 272011
In his dozen or so works of international best-selling fiction, Haruki Murakami has created an alternate-reality Japan that is at once magical and familiar, dangerous and comfortable, foreign but Westernized.
Aug 172010
This MFA exhibition displays some of the most intricate manifestations of tattoos in woodblock prints, leaving the viewer curious about its footprints in contemporary art and popular culture. By Yumi Araki. Under the Skin: Tattoos in Japanese Prints is showing [...]