How Ibuki Kuramochi Combines Painting and Butoh Dance in Striking Live Shows At five years old, Ibuki Kuramochi could often be found drawing portraits of customers at…
Emotive Photo Story Captures the Dance Group That Unites Tokyo’s Homeless It was a chilly autumn evening in November 2017 when Adam Isfendiyar gathered together a…
Rosaria Iazetta: Meet the Intrepid Woman Who Motorbiked Solo from Italy to Japan In June 2018, Rosaria Iazetta, an Italian artist and professor of sculpture at the Academy…
1968 Shinjuku Riot: Dramatic Photos Show What Tokyo’s Violent Rebellion Was Like As this month marks 50 years since the violent Shinjuku Riot (Shinjuku Sōran) of 1968,…
Animation Director Masaaki Yuasa Takes Us Inside His Flamboyantly Surreal Worlds As a young artist, Masaaki Yuasa was mesmerized by the climactic scene from the 1981…
Murakami’s Latest Novel a “Gothic Retelling of The Great Gatsby” The argument that an artist, be they musician, writer, or painter, should come under fire…
Add a Splash of Color to Tokyo with Russian Artist Max Goshko-Dankov Tokyoites will have the chance to pick up a marker and color in-between the lines…
A Day in the Life of an Urushi Artist Mamiko Masumura’s art studio takes up her bedroom. She sleeps on the living room couch…
The Tōkyōiter: Art Project Celebrates Tokyo With Illustrated Magazine Covers Inspired by the cover artwork of The New Yorker, a group of talented illustrators pay…
A Day in the Life of a Kimekomi Doll Craftsman Kimekomi is a traditional technique that involves carving narrow grooves not much wider than a…
Visit Tokyo’s Largest Illumination Art Festival at Hotel Gajoen Celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, the opulent Hotel Gajoen Tokyo is commemorating the occasion…
A World First: Mori Building Digital Art Museum teamLab Borderless Opens in Tokyo As a pioneer of revolutionary technology, it’s only fitting that Tokyo hosts the world’s first…
A Day in the Life of a Manga Artist Nao Yazawa, a manga industry professional with a career spanning decades, is best known for…
Kazuhiro Tsuji: The True Passion of the “Darkest Hour” Oscar Winner Born in Kyoto in 1969, Kazuhiro Tsuji had a difficult childhood. Brought up by an…
A Photographer Documents His Unlikely Friendship with a 90-Year-Old Japanese Calligrapher A few years back, Ben Beech would often find himself pedaling past a ramshackle building…
