Instead, Buckland posits that art during the Meiji period developed gradually and combined characteristic Japanese styles with foreign ones, such as Impressionism, new techniques of printmaking ...

While the changes wrought upheaval and uncertainty, many people, including artists, saw the Meiji period as a time teeming with possibility. Against this backdrop, art emerged as one of Japan’s most ...

The significance of the Meiji Restoration, an important political period in Japanese history credited for ushering in an era of major political and social change continues to be debated extensively, ...

From the 1870s through the 1920s, Japan underwent rapid and widespread modernization and nation-building. In the Meiji period, Japanese leaders looked to European models of constitutional monarchy, ...

Prior to the concluding assessment activity, have students read and analyze written primary sources regarding various Japanese groups in terms of continuity and change in the Meiji period and the ...

This area was ravaged by three large fires between the Edo period (1603-1867) and 1869 in the early Meiji era ... who were involved in the remodeling. (Japanese original by Minoru Kanazawa ...

"Vase With Blossoming Flowers" (1890s) stands at nearly 6 feet tall, around the corner from a marked entrance into "Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan" at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Opened in 1965 with 15 buildings, Meiji Mura does not only feature buildings from Japan’s Meiji era but also those from ... Rogers Many of the interiors of the building are full of period items as ...