From Hokusai's brush to the hands at work today.

Savoring Art with the Five Senses

IWA 5 and Five Artists from Toyama

Arts and Culture, Wako Main Store B1F　Ginza, Tokyo

Hokusai’s fan paintings — three works painted in the shape of a fan

Hokusai’s paintings from his own brush are not confined to hanging scrolls and albums. Fan paintings survive too, painted on paper in the shape of an open folding fan. On a surface bounded by arcs, wide at the top and narrowing towards the bottom, what did Hokusai place, and where? We look at the three fans the gallery handles, one at a time.

Supervised by Yoshihisa Endo, Representative Director, Japan Art Academy

The provenance of Picasso’s L’enfant à l’orange — from the artist’s family onward

When you are deciding whether to bring a painting home, the road it has travelled deserves checking alongside the painting itself. Whose hands has Picasso’s L’enfant à l’orange passed through, where has it been shown, and in which books has it appeared? Here we set out, in date order, only what is recorded in the documentation that accompanies the work.

Hiromitsu Kato: The Japanese Spirit, Between East and West

In February 2019 an exhibition of Hiromitsu Kato’s work was held in the Aula Magna “S.M. la Emperatriz Michiko”, the Empress Michiko Hall, of the Hispano-Japanese Cultural Center at the University of Salamanca, Spain. Here we present the essay that the art critic Satoru Yamada wrote for the occasion, together with the reviews his work received abroad from 2009 onwards.