Articles by karsand

Two sumo wrestlers get ready for round one. That is the story told by photographer Felice Beato in this scene, one of many images of […]

The depiction of beautiful women 美人画 (bijin-ga) was a principal genre of Japanese prints. While this print’s title focuses on the geography of Edo (modern […]

The majority of Chinese portrait paintings are ancestor portraits. They served as links in familial lineages, which were important to Confucian culture. Ancestor portraits were […]

Photography was popularized in Japan beginning in the 19th century. This work by the Japanese photographer Eiichi Sakurai imitates Japanese landscape painting by using the […]

Belleek Pottery, founded in County Fermanagh in 1857, is considered Ireland’s foremost porcelain manufacturer. It was and still is most famous for its intricate basket-weave […]

European desire for oriental goods grew so rapidly that Chinese and Japanese export markets could not sustain the demand. Western artists and businesses infiltrated this […]

Late 19th century European and American artists appropriated many new formats and motifs from the examples of East Asian artwork and material culture that were […]

Japonisme, the Western fad for imitating Japanese art styles, took several forms in the 19th century – particularly through clothing, calligraphy, and the tea ceremony. […]

At the end of the 19th century, Western audiences were sated with East Asian artwork. The exotic had become the familiar, and gradually East Asian […]