NEW YORK (REUTERS)- A new exhibit featuring massive statues, dragon-shaped roof ridge ornaments and art from the Yuan dynasty gives visitors a glimpse of ancient China that the first Westerners would have seen 700 years ago. “The World of Khubilai Khan…
World of Khubilai Khan Revealed in New Exhibit at the Metropolitan
NEW YORK (REUTERS)- A new exhibit featuring massive statues, dragon-shaped roof ridge ornaments and art from the Yuan dynasty gives visitors a glimpse of ancient China that the first Westerners would have seen 700 years ago. “The World of Khubilai Khan…
Japanese Fascination with the West is Explored in Exhibition of Prints
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Isolated by the ruling Tokugawa shogunate from the outside world, Japanese citizens were naturally curious about the Westerners who began to arrive on their shores following Commodore Matthew Perry’s historic voyages to Japan in…
Japanese Fascination with the West is Explored in Exhibition of 19th-Century Yokohama Prints
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Isolated by the ruling Tokugawa shogunate from the outside world, Japanese citizens were naturally curious about the Westerners who began to arrive on their shores following Commodore Matthew Perry’s historic voyages to Japan in…