Yamaguchi Akira is an artist who uses the techniques of traditional Japanese painting to explore new possibilities for contemporary art. With its humorous and contempory sensibility, his work has ...

Painter Akira Yamaguchi has paid homage to classical Japanese art traditions in his work on numerous occasions, but this marks his first foray into the world of woodblock prints. Created to ...

Akira Yamaguchi celebrates Japanese traditional art and culture by mashing it up with weird Western flourishes -- suggesting, perhaps, that letting the Eastern and the Western run together back in ...

Combining contemporary techniques with the traditional styles of ukiyo-e and yamato-e (a classical form of painting developed in the Heian era), Akira Yamaguchi ... at Mito's Art Tower, where ...

Fuji xerox print, the complete set of 22 works for the second volume Horror Draconia of Tatsuhiko Shibusawa "Kikutodai" (2003, Heibonsha Limited, Publishers), accompanied by the book and the original ...

At first, noted contemporary artist Akira Yamaguchi had no desire to put his ... He also did not want art to play a supporting role in politics like in the wartime period, when many battle ...