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Women Artists in Japan, 19th–21st c.
Research
128
Interviews
20
Review
88
Fields
Visual arts
13
Artistic Movements
Geometric abstraction
2
Lyrical abstraction
2
Academic art
1
Viennese Actionism
1
Appropriationism
1
Outsider art
2
Conceptual art
11
Body art
1
Art Déco
1
Naïve art
1
Artist collective
20
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
1
Surrealism
6
Symbolism
3
Subjects
Allegory
16
Political issues
65
Women's status
70
Consumerism
9
Human body
71
Discriminations
40
Feminism
58
History
50
Art history & museum
25
Intimacy
13
Memory
38
Nature
30
Still life
7
Nude
22
Landscape
23
Visual perception
5
Portrait
36
Religion & spirituality
12
Domestic scene
11
Vegetal
13
Everyday life
33
Travel
2
Mediums
Graphic arts
94
Watercolour
14
Dessin (ink, pencil…)
38
Illustration
6
Performing arts
1
Audiovisual
45
Concepts
3
Space & installation
82
Environment
7
[Modes]
19
Monumental
11
Objects
21
Painting
108
Oil
35
Performance
36
Photography
58
Digital photography
8
Sculpture
46
Textile
31
Countries
Africa
20
Central America and the Caribbean
4
North America
61
United States
53
South America
32
Asia
33
China
4
Japan
15
Russia
3
Vietnam
3
Europe
143
France
75
Middle East
16
Oceania
7
Periods of
activity
XVIe siècle
2
17th century
3
18th century
6
19th century
20
1860s
5
1870s
5
1880s
9
1890s
11
20th century
191
1900s
14
1910s
17
1920s
23
1930s
31
1940s
29
1980s
110
1990s
100
21st century
133
2000s
98
2010s
112
2020s
57
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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