In what amounts to a major shift in Japanese national taste, an almost forgotten Confucian scholar named Tomioka Tessai, who died in 1924 at the age of 88, is emerging as Japan’s most popular painter ...

Excitement builds for a rare showing of works by the 19th-century painter whose dynamic colors and bold brushstrokes mirrored the avant-garde of the West Tomioka Tessai was beloved for the personality ...

“Put me with the old Japanese masters,” French Impressionist painter Claude Monet once said. “The refinement of their taste has always delighted me, and I approve of the suggestives of their aesthetic ...