Exhibitions

Ink drawings are made on silk or on paper. The ink is a compound of charcoal from pine wood and various glues.

The samurai (retainers), also known as bushi (warriors) arose in the tenth century, and were ranked among the aristocracy of Japan from the twelfth century until Japan entered the modern era with the Meiji Restoration in 1868.

Noriko Yanagisawa was born in Hamamatsu, a city in the Shizuoka Province of Japan, in 1940.

Emi Fujii was born in Akita Province in 1939. From 1966 to 1968 she worked in a ceramics factory.

The shrines of Japan are used for the ritual ceremonies of two religions - the Shinto and the Buddhist.

Japan imported textiles and the techniques of their preparation from Korea and China, India and the Ryukyu Islands. The Japanese weavers made the cloth from bast and silk thread, till cotton arrived in the 16th century from India, via China and Korea.

Japanese Paper Dolls

With the onset of spring, on March 3rd, the Hina-matsuri, the Doll Festival, takes place in Japan, in which dolls have a specific role to play.

Fumio Kitaoka was born in Tokyo in 1918, and is a graduate of the Department of oil painting at the Tokyo University of Art.

The woodblock colour prints known as Ukiyo-e (Pictures from the Floating World) were widespread in Japan from the middle of the 17th century to the middle of the 19th century.