Japanese Tattoos explains the imagery featured in Japanese tattoos so that readers can avoid getting ink they don’t understand or, worse, that they’ll regret. This photo-heavy book will also trace the history of Japanese tattooing, putting the iconography and kanji symbols in their proper context so readers will be better informed as to what they mean and have a deeper understanding of irezumi
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Tatsuki Masaru spent a decade following the Decotora (an abbreviation for “Decoration Truck”) subculture, photographing the trucks of course but also their drivers and in the long series of “Japanese do it better”, these vehicles have a panache and extravagance that never reach bad taste
In early modern Japan, 1600-1900, thousands of sexually explicit works of art were produced, known as ‘spring pictures’ (shunga). The exhibition examines the often tender, funny, beautiful and accomplished shunga that were produced by some of the masters of Japanese art
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Shomei Tomatsu’s most famous series is “Nagasaki 11:02”. Fifteen years after the horrific atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Shomei Tomatsu was commissioned by the Japan Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs to document the effects of the A-bomb on the city of Nagasaki and on its inhabitants
One hundred posters, selected from amongst the thousands of works submitted each year for the most prestigious awards, representing the best of Japanese graphics over the last ten years
As her pop musician alter ego “Sputniko!” Hiromi Ozaki showcases 3 manga-inspired characters who design objects to fulfil their own particular complex needs — Crowbot Jenny builds a crow-shaped robot to communicate with crows, Sushiborg Yukari, a sushi-serving cyborg who modifies her body to become a lethal weapon, and Menstruation Machine (Takashi’s Take), a boy desiring to become more ‘feminine’ who builds a suit in an attempt to experience the bleeding of menstruation
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Last and overdue notes from the Japan Media Arts Festival which took place last month in Tokyo. I’m just going to do a lazy post and glaze over he entertainment and animation categories
Onion scanners, tv screens used as percussion instruments, storm inside a transparent cylinder, genetically modified blue carnations brought back to their original white, techy Japanese-style glockenspiel, etc.
In light of the latest developments in biotechnology, cybernetics and neuroscience, the mixture of medical exhibits and works of art introduces visitors to developments in bioscience and issues they entail. Can our definition of life remain unchallenged? Is the human commitment to reproduce going to remain the same? How much can medical and scientific developments impact the way we love and live?
Prosthetics, anatomical drawings by Michelangelo, ornate amputation saw from ca. 1650, disturbing videos by Patricia Piccinici, Tibetan anatomical figures, a painting by Damien Hirst. Some 150 medical artifacts from the Wellcome Collection in London and works of old Japanese and contemporary art are exhibited side by side. Without any hierarchy nor anxiety
One of the most popular pavilions this year is probably the Japanese one, surrounded as it is by greenhouses, little wooden benches and tea tables for visitors to have a rest. Designed by the edgy and young architect Junya Ishigami, the pavilion is a hybrid between an artificial environment or an element of topography
13 Japanese artists explore themes such as the tension between individual expression and collective identity in contemporary Japan, the relationship of the adult to the child and the fight between human culture and nature
When a snuff movie for mouse and cursor meets a sewing machine and a paper shredder all they can talk about is the effect that a symbolic death in a computer game can have in the physical space
Everything is cute in Murakami’s world, even the handbag store, the atomic mushroom, the Persian monk and the eerie robot with a tiny penis
An exhibition in Berlin examines how contemporary artists around the world re-invent the image we might have of Asia and the way in which the post-colonial production of knowledge is challenging Euro-centric concepts of art
Goth – Reality of the Departed World introduced goth / gothic in contemporary art through approximately 250 works. Vicente Gutierrez reports
4 curators introduce new emergent talent from Japan while juxtaposing their works alongside influential Japanese artists from the 1960s and 1970s
Just as i was panicking that i wouldn’t be able to post anything today because i had spent […]
The long-awaited Dorkbot Tokyo took place today, in Yokohama. This must be the seventh dorkbot event in Japan. […]
Get It Louder (Part 1, China) Just a tiny add-on focusing on the Japanese Chapter of Get It […]
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A new story by Vicente Gutierrez, wmmna’s correspondent in Tokyo. “I wanted to distance myself from the curse […]
Warriors of Art: A Guide to Contemporary Japanese Artists, by Yumi Yamaguchi (Amazon UK and USA.) Publisher Kodansha […]
Consuming Bodies: Sex and Contemporary Japanese Art, edited by Fran Lloyd (Amazon USA and UK) Editor Reaktion Books […]
While walking in and around rue Charlot yesterday, i stumbled upon the Galerie Art All Aaccess. They are […]
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Watashi-chan, by Tomoko Ueyama, is a garment that visualizes sounds in a space. The balloons attached to the […]
I saw the Inochi animated video a while ago at a Takashi Murakami exhibition in Turin. Been looking […]
Active Ingredient from Nottingham have always been trying to make “hard” technology a bit softer and to reveal […]
Just back from Dislocate 07, a great little exhibition in two venues around Tokyo and a two-day symposium […]
This is the way i was playing pacman aaages ago and i never went beyond that cardboard point. […]
Yasutaro Mitsui with his own steel humanoid, early ’30s. Via Hugo Strikes Back (information about the picture found […]
JPG 2: Japan Graphics, edited by Tomoko Sakamoto. (Amazon USAand UK.) Editor Actar says: Volume two of ‘JPG, […]
Plastic Culture – How Japanese Toys Conquered the World (Amazon USAUK) written by London-based designer and illustrator Woodrow […]
Loving The Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots, by Timothy N.Hornyak (Amazon USA and UK.) Publisher’s […]
In February, Bibi started a daily blog with videos of films, ephemeral, vintage commercials, animations, cartoons, series and […]
ICC in Tokyo is currently running an exhibition called OpenSky2.0, which showcases various artifacts relevant to Kazuhiko Hachiya‘s […]
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Ryota Kuwakubo‘s Prepared Radios are handmade and programmed to extract only consonant sounds from the broadcast. All meaning […]
Ryota Kuwakubo is one of wmmna’s favourite artists. From loopScape, a shooting game that makes players run around […]