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Women Artists in Japan, 19th–21st c.
Research
114
Interviews
22
Review
88
Fields
Visual arts
2
Artistic Movements
Geometric abstraction
2
Lyrical abstraction
2
Academic art
1
Viennese Actionism
1
Appropriationism
1
Outsider art
2
Conceptual art
10
Body art
1
Art Déco
1
Naïve art
1
Artist collective
18
École de Paris
2
Expressionism
1
Abstract expressionism
1
Fauvism
1
Land art
2
Minimalism
3
Nouveau Réalisme
2
New Objectivity
1
Pop art
4
Postminimalism
1
Realism
2
Surrealism
6
Symbolism
3
Subjects
Allegory
15
Political issues
62
Women's status
65
Consumerism
8
Human body
73
Discriminations
39
Feminism
59
History
47
Art history & museum
21
Intimacy
14
Memory
35
Nature
26
Still life
7
Nude
23
Landscape
21
Visual perception
5
Portrait
36
Religion & spirituality
12
Domestic scene
10
Vegetal
11
Everyday life
31
Travel
1
Mediums
Graphic arts
93
Watercolour
14
Dessin (ink, pencil…)
38
Illustration
6
Performing arts
0
Audiovisual
43
Space & installation
80
Environment
6
[Modes]
19
Monumental
11
Objects
18
Painting
106
Oil
34
Performance
32
Photography
56
Digital photography
8
Sculpture
44
Textile
27
Countries
Africa
18
Central America and the Caribbean
3
North America
60
United States
53
South America
32
Asia
29
China
4
Japan
14
Russia
3
Vietnam
3
Europe
140
France
74
Middle East
15
Oceania
7
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activity
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2
17th century
3
18th century
5
19th century
17
1860s
3
1870s
3
1880s
6
1890s
8
20th century
185
1900s
12
1910s
15
1920s
20
1930s
27
1940s
25
1980s
108
1990s
97
21st century
127
2000s
95
2010s
108
2020s
53
Artcles published in the framework of the programme
Women Artists in Japan, 19th–21st c.
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Article
14.11.2025 | Tai Tadokoro
Women Nanga Artists at Meiji-Period Exhibitions
Article
17.10.2025 | Reiko Kokatsu
On the Introduction of Gender Perspectives into Japanese Art History and Exhibitions
Article
18.07.2025 | Tomoko OGAWA
The Women Nihonga Artists of Osaka
Interview
30.05.2025 | Natsuko Fukushima
Yuki Onodera Interview: Photography in Pursuit of Physicality and Materiality
Article
19.06.2024 | Megumi Kitahara
The Japanese women painters who moved across borders in the 1930s and 40s, and during World War II
Article
07.06.2024 | Tomoko Kira
The sisters Shigure and Haruko Hasegawa, and Women’s Art magazine
Article
13.10.2023 | Kojima Kaoru
From the Edo era to the beginning of the 20th century: the artistic education of women painters
Article
13.10.2023 | Kojima Kaoru
Women Nihonga Painters and Bijinga
Article
16.06.2023 | Yukiko Yokoyama
What were “Ultra Girls”? Women Artists in 1980s Japan
Article
21.04.2023 | Yukiko Yokoyama
A History of Western-Style Yōga Painting in Japan and Women Yōga Artists from the Meiji Period to the Pre-War Era
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