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Kawanabe Kyōsai, A Beauty in Front of King Enma's Mirror (detail)

RA Exhibitions

1 year ago

Kawanabe Kyōsai: the demon with a brush

Kyōsai blurred the divide between the popular and elite art of 19th-century Japan. Christopher Harding introduces the master of satirical and traditional painting as a rare collection of Kyōsai’s art comes to the RA.
Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), The Drum Bridge at Kameido Tenjin Shrine, from the series 'Remarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces'

RA Recommends

6 years ago

How do you get from the “American dream” to the Japanese house?

Sam Phillips finds the dotted line from the British Museum’s American prints through to Japanese architecture at the Barbican, in six sizzling spring shows.
Carving tools lie on a block for Rebecca Salter's Japanese woodblock print "Tessela 1 and 2', on show in the Summer Exhibition 2016

Artists

> 6 years ago

Making a Japanese woodblock print for the Summer Exhibition

In this video, Rebecca Salter RA explains the traditional tools and techniques used by the Sato Woodblock Workshop in Kyoto when creating her print for the Summer Exhibition 2016.

Kitagawa Utamaro, OHisa, of Okita arm wrestling

RA Exhibitions

> 7 years ago

Rebecca Salter RA on the tradition of Japanese woodblock printing

The Academician has spent her career studying and promoting the threatened art of Japanese woodblock printing. Here, she tells us about her new prints, commissioned for the Summer Exhibition.
Works from the RA Collection on show at Tokyo Fuji Art Museum

Our Collection

> 8 years ago

The RA Collection on the road in Japan

Two members of the RA Collection team have just returned from Japan where they were transferring an exhibition of works from the RA across the country.