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Takashi Murakami's “JAPONISME → Cognitive Revolution: Learning from Hiroshige,” opened at Gagosian New York earlier this month.@ArtNews's Daniel Cassady interviewed Murakami about creating the show, and the act and art of copying. "This, as it turns out, is what growth looks like for Murakami: part excavation, part mutation, and always, a reckoning with the long shadow of art history."

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Takashi Murakami Expands Two Major Shows in 2025
ARTnews.com · Takashi Murakami Expands Two Major Shows in 2025By Daniel Cassady

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When worlds collide: as my followers may know, almost every day, I post a) a picture of a species of frog; b) a Japanese art print; and c) a daily blog post in which I translate a sentence or two from a Japanese book.

In the book, I encountered a most important word: 蛙, pronounced "kaeru" or "kawazu"; in English, "frog."

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This combines a) and c). So, to include b), here's a Japanese art print of a frog.

Articulated praying mantis. Japan, Meiji period, 19th century. Collection: The Walters Art Museum.
Crafted meticulously from iron, copper, and brass, each joint of this insect replica can be moved independently, offering a strikingly realistic representation that intrigues collectors and historians alike. Examining closely, one notices subtle decorative etchings and patina variations indicating careful aging techniques that artists employed to enhance visual realism.
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"Woman Holding Black Cat," Yumeji Takehisa, 1920.

Takehisa (1884-1934) was a Japanese poet and artist of the Nihonga school, which specializes in mineral pigments on parchment or silk, and who did primarily bijinga works, or paintings of beautiful women, although he also did a number of commercial design, including book covers, washi paper, furoshiki cloths, postcards, and illustrations.

A struggling workingman, he had many Socialist sympathies, and for a time produced a number of pro-Socialist works, but after a Socialist assassination attempt on the emperor, he withdrew vocal support, mainly from self-preservation. He traveled the US and Europe, partly to escape Japan's militarism in the 30s, but returned to Japan after being alarmed by the rise of Nazism. He died of TB not long after his return.

Despite being pretty traditional, his art was touched by Western influences, and he is regarded now as an early influence on manga art, given his preference for depicting figures with large eyes.

From the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.