A portrait drawn by literary giant Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) has gone on display for the first time since it was created more than 70 years ago. It is being exhibited at the Mitaka City Gallery of ...
According to the National Printing Bureau, the subjects should be well-known to the Japanese people and someone to take pride in. Their portraits need to be rendered as precisely as possible to ...
Art historian Toshinobu Yasumura, who heads the museum, noted that the drawing carries ... it was done in 1803 in the Japanese imperial era. Only a few original portraits drawn by Hokusai survive ...