Japanese Art and the Flow of Faith (Buddhism and Shintoism) – Modern Tokyo Times

Japanese Art and the Flow of Faith (Buddhism and Shintoism) – Modern Tokyo Times

Japanese Art and the Flow of Faith (Buddhism and Shintoism) Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The Japanese artist Uehara Konen was born in Tokyo during the transformative years of the Meiji Restoration (1868–1912) — a period when Japan stood at the crossroads between tradition and modernity. Emerging from this vibrant age of change, Konen became a distinctive voice in Japanese art, bridging the classical and the contemporary. His early works wer…