Japanese battleship Kawachi

After the opening-up of Japan and the expansion of trade routes in the mid-nineteenth century, Japonisme immediately spread across Europe and America. Just as the paintings of the ...

Around 1860 Japan was in turmoil about whether or not the country should engage in trade with the West. In 1863 insurgents – advocates of an isolationist policy – fired on western ...

On a violet background, vertical lines of green bamboo with branches of flowering trees between them. In the foreground, large reishi mushrooms in blue or brown, sharply outlined i...

Design composed of very schematic cherry blossoms in grey and pale yellow together with silhouettes of bats in flight, in green and blue with geometric decoration inside (grids). T...