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☆ This Netflix Anime Uses Alt-History to Explore Gender Norms
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Maya Phillips | More About Maya Phillips | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Gender is a trap. That’s some of the subtext in the fascinating Netflix anime series “Ōoku: The Inner Chambers,” which tells a complex love story in an alternate-reality Edo Japan in which an illness upends society’s gender norms and expectations. (Iemitsu is based on the real-life shogun of the Tokugawa clan with the same name; “Ōoku” cleverly builds up its world from select real historical characters and events.) Forced to present herself as a man, Iemitsu grows into a brutal, violent misogynist. She struggles to find her place within the limitations of the gender binary.

Persons: Tokugawa, Iemitsu, Ōoku ” Locations: Edo Japan, Japan, ”

☆ This rare female painter in Edo Japan was ‘coveted’ for her exquisite ink paintings
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

But he laments the fact that Yukinobu — and other women artists from Japan — are not given more prominence beyond occasional inclusion in broad group shows. But she never signed her paintings, according to Kanō tradition, as Kanō Yukinobu. The Denver Art Museum alone has 13 imitations of Yukinobu paintings, and only one authentic work. A peony in the collection of MFA Boston (not on view), which holds several Yukinobu paintings. “There’s a core group of female scholars who are pursuing this (the study of Japanese women artists),” he explained.

Persons: Kiyohara Yukinobu, —, ”, Einor Cervone, Yukinobu, Benzaiten, Paul Berry, “, ” Berry, Kanō Tan’yū, Kusumi Morikage, Berry, Cervone, Yang Guifei, Tang, Xuanzong, it’s, Kiyohara, consort Yang Guifei, ” Cervone, Boston Berry, he’s, don’t, Picasso, I’m, It’s Organizations: CNN, Denver Art Museum, Tokyo National Museum, Miho Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, Suntory Museum of Art, Women’s University Locations: Japan, Kyoto, New York, “, Tokyo, Shibuya, East Asia

☆ How Hokusai’s Art Crashed Over the Modern World
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Jason Farago | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

One of the most influential figures in European modern culture never set foot in Europe. But a few years after his death in 1849, when the “black ships” of Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into what’s now Tokyo Bay, Japan’s markets were forcibly opened, and Hokusai’s woodblocks started to flutter over the ocean. In France, in Britain, and soon in America, a whole new kind of art would emerge: born in Tokyo, spanning the whole world. Beautiful and bloated by turns (but well worth the trip), it makes ample use of the MFA’s unparalleled collection of Japanese art. Here you will see more than 100 of Hokusai’s prints, paintings and manga — literally “whimsical sketches” of bathers and courtesans and birds and beasts, which Hokusai published in 15 best-selling volumes.

Persons: Katsushika, Matthew Perry, Hokusai’s woodblocks, Hokusai Organizations: Mount Fuji, Museum of Fine Arts, Mount, Fuji Locations: Europe, Edo Japan, what’s, Tokyo, France, Britain, America, Boston, American

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