Exhibitions

It was ten years ago that I first encountered the works of the artist Noriko Yanagisawa. That was when we were planning her first exhibition at the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art in Haifa, Israel.

The exhibition comprises two unusual types of Japanese print - the triptych and the hashira-e (pillar print).

When the gates of Japan were opened to the Western world at the time of the Meiji Restoration in 1868, a new era of modernization and industrialization began, bringing with it many political, economic, and cultural changes.

The contemporary artist Kumagai Masa creates installations out of handmade Japanese paper.

In its broadest sense, the Japanese word "kimono" means "clothing", and it is usually applied to the traditional and specific garment which is the national dress of Japan, shaped like a T, with rectangular sleeves, which is wrapped around the body.

The fan is an important accessory in the Japanese culture.

Seishiro Jay Tomioka creates digital images which he then manipulates by means of the computer programme "Photoshop".

The Lion-dog
The lion-dog (shishi or jishi) came to Japan with Buddhism, either from China or from Korea in the 7th or 8th century.

Mikio Toki, who was born in 1950, studied graphic design at the University of Design in Tokyo. He learned the art of the kite from the artist Katsuhisa Ota (1902-1989), and he has been making traditional Edo kites since 1970.

Ze'ev (Wilhelm) Aleksandrowicz was born in Cracow in 1905, the only son of well-established family of paper merchants.In his childhood he received a sound Jewish and Zionist education, and his first camera was a gift from his aunt.