Itsuko Hasegawa, Nerima House, Nerima-ku | Tokyo, Japan, 1985-1986
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Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, 1829-1833
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‘Showa 88’ by Kazuyoshi Usui, 2011. Courtesy of Zen Foto Gallery
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Emma Ekwall (Swedish, 1838 - 1925): Interior with children at table with Japanese still life (via Stockholms Auktionsverk)
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My inspiration.
Chinese art form is popular for their silk paintings and paintings created with black or colourful brushstrokes. Japanese art form uses ink paints, oil paints for their woodblock printings and calligraphy.
The artistic tradition of monochrome painting originates in China, then it became widespread in Japan. In traditional Chinese painting, there are four main subjects that are fundamentally the same in Japanese painting: landscapes, portraits, birds and animals, flowers and trees.
FAN KUAN (范寬, ca.950–1032) was a Chinese landscape painter during the Song Dynasty (960–1279)
IKENAGA YASUNARI
Born in 1965 in Oita prefecture and graduated from the Midorigaoka High School (attached to the Oita Prefectural College of Arts and Culture). Painted on his own dyed linen canvas, his "bijinga (Portraits/ prints of beautiful women)" provide a sophisticated texture and taste. His first art book in 2014 is a long-seller and his works are also published as prints, calendars and coloring books. Even in foreign countries, his works are popular as design of stationeries and novels.
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Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, 1829-1833
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Wolfgang Tillmans, Ostgut Freischwimmer, left, 2004 (installation view at Fondation Beyeler, 2017)
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Japan Court Rules Trans Man Can Change Gender Marker Without Surgery
Them reports:
A Japanese court this week approved a transgender man’s legal gender change without first requiring sterilization, marking a major step forward for trans rights in the country.
Takakito Usui, 50, won recognition of his gender before the Okayama Family Court’s Tsuyama branch on Wednesday. “I want to thank my family. I feel a new life is beginning,” Usui, a farmer living in the rural Yamagata Prefecture, said at a press conference on Wednesday following the ruling.
Usui previously petitioned to change his legal gender in 2016, the paper noted, but was rejected because he had not been medically sterilized, as was then required under Japanese law. In October, Japan’s Supreme Court struck down the 2003 statute requiring trans people to be sterilized before obtaining legal recognition.
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As a young boy in school, Masaki Sashima would be dragged out of his classroom and beaten by his fellow students.
Masaki, now 72, was different to the other kids.
He was Ainu, an Indigenous people from the country's northern regions, most notably the large island of Hokkaido.
"During recess, the hallway door would open, and several guys would yell at me to come out," he said.
"I clung to my desk in the classroom and kept quiet.
"Everyone would surround me and beat me."
Japan has long portrayed itself as culturally and ethnically homogenous, something that some have even argued is a key to its success as a nation.
More than 98 per cent of Japanese people are descendants of the Yamato people.
But the Ainu are distinct, with their own history, languages, and culture.
But, as the victims of colonialism, assimilation, and discrimination, much of that identity has been lost.
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