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 ...

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 ...

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 ...