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Read Japanese using Live Text and Translation

Using Live Text to recognise kanji characters in a screenshot, then translating them from Japanese to English. Does it work?

May 21, 2022 General, Language, Macs, Technology

The Meiji Renaissance: Antonio Fontanesi and Japanese painting 2

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Kuroda Seiki moved to Paris in 1884 to study law. Two years later, he changed to painting, and returned to Japan to transform art there.

May 8, 2022 General, Life, Painting

The Meiji Renaissance: Antonio Fontanesi and Japanese painting 1

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In 1876, a relatively unknown Italian landscape painter started the transformation of Japanese painting from its 400 year old tradition.

May 7, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Silk and canvas: Japan and Europe in painting 2

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Japanese woodblock prints were influenced by European prints, in turn becoming popular with Impressionists, who attracted Japanese artists to study in Paris.

July 19, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Silk and canvas: Japan and Europe in painting 1

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From about 1550-1680, European painting influenced that in Japan. During 200 years of later isolation, Westernisation continued more slowly.

July 18, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Painter, his Patron, and their Museum: the Impressionist paintings of Torajirō Kojima

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He studied in Tokyo and Ghent, Belgium, thanks to the support of a banker and industrialist. They are both remembered in the Ōhara Museum of Art, where many of his paintings now hang.

October 20, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Coast: At the Shrine of Benzaiten, Enoshima, Japan

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This tiny island within easy reach of Tokyo is dedicated to the goddess of music and entertainment. Here it’s shown in ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings.

November 1, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

The Story in Paintings: Night Attack on the Sanjō Palace, a Japanese narrative painting

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Preference for water-based paints on paper in Japan allowed artists to show 4 dimensions on a 2D scroll.

May 13, 2016 General, Painting

Japonism(e) and Ukiyo-e

Japanese woodblock prints are usually termed ukiyo-e, but ukiyo originally meant ‘this world of sorrow and grief’. How did they get their name?

January 22, 2016 General, Language, Painting

The suppression of great art

Why was Vermeer forgotten, or van Gogh ignored, or Western-style painting in Japan suppressed?

August 29, 2015 General, Life, Painting

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