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Heisei Period Tokyo skyline Heisei (平成?) is the current era name in Japan. The Heisei era started on January 8, 1989, the first day after the death of the reigning Emperor, Hirohito. His son, Akihito, succeeded to the throne. In accordance with Japanese customs, Hirohito was posthumously renamed "Emperor Shōwa" on January 31, just as were Mutsuhito (Emperor Meiji) and Yoshihito (Emperor T..

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Showa Art Sanzo Wada, South Wind (1907) Tsuguharu Foujita, portrait, Ink and watercolor on paper Ogura Yuki, Bathing Women, 1938, Tokyo Museum of Modern Art Japanese painting in the early Shōwa period was largely dominated by Yasui Sotaro and Umehara Ryuzaburo, who introduced the concepts of pure art and abstract painting to the Nihonga tradition, and thus created a more interpretative versio..

Shōwa period The young Hirohito in his coronation robes 1928 Yasui Sōtarō, Chin jung, 1934, Oil on Canvas, 96.5 cm × 74.5 cm (38.0 in × 29.3 in), Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo The Shōwa period (昭和時代, Shōwa jidai?, literally "period of enlightened peace"), or Shōwa era, is the period of Japanese history corresponding to the reign of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito)..

Art Institute of Chicago http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZFVhIji7sY The AIC by Yong-Su Lee The Art Institute, for its extensive collections of 19th-century French painting (Impressionist works and the work of Claude Monet in particular) and 20th-century European and American painting. Among its best-known works are Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on La Grand Jatte — 1884 (1884--86), Grant ..

Taisho Art Landscape by Kishida Ryusei The Taishō period saw the predominance of Yōga over Nihonga. After long stays in Europe, many artists (including Arishima Ikuma) returned to Japan during the Taishō period, bringing with them the techniques of impressionism and early post-impressionism. The works of Camille Pissarro, Paul Cezanne and Pierre Auguste Renoir influenced early Taishō pe..

Taisho Period Taisho Emperor Japanese Boy Scouts being trained with rifles. The Taishō period (大正時代, Taishō jidai?, "period of great righteousness"), or Taishō era, is a period in the history of Japan dating from July 30, 1912 to December 25, 1926, coinciding with the reign of the Taishō Emperor. The health of the new emperor was weak, which prompted the shift in political power..

Meiji Art Toyohara Chikanobu: Excursion to View the Cherry Blossoms, (1887) Toyohara Chikanobu: A Mirror of Japanese Nobility (1887) In the years after 1867, when Emperor Meiji ascended the throne, Japan was once again invaded by new and alien forms of culture. The introduction of Western cultural values led to a dichotomy in Japanese art, as well as in nearly every other aspect of culture, bet..

Meiji period (1868~1912) Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō on the bridge of the Mikasa, before the Battle of Tsushima in 1905. Itagaki Taisuke was attacked by thugs in Gifu. And, he said "Itagaki may die, but liberty never!" The Meiji period (明治時代, Meiji jidai?), or Meiji era denotes the period in Japanese history during the 45-year reign of the Meiji Emperor (from 23 October 1868 to 30 Jul..