Female Student and Violin from the series Beautiful Women and Music (Bijin to Onkyoku)
description: Color woodblock; stencil; organic and inorganic colorants on Japanese paper adhered to card stock
creator: Fujishima Takeji (Japanese, 1867–1943 Japanese), Publisher Sunbikai
source: Leonard A. Lauder Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
publisher: http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/female-student-and-violin-from-the-series-beautiful-women-and-music-bijin-to-onkyoku-394514
date: 1905
format: Overall: 13.8 x 8.8 cm (5 7/16 x 3 7/16 in.)

Corruption
description: Surreal Painting by Japanese artist Ydk Morimoe
creator: Ydk Morimoe
source: Baiduu.com
publisher: Baiduu.com
date: 2015

Electric guitar (Pro II U series Urchin Deluxe model)
description: The dramatic curves of the Urchin guitar might have been inspired by the spiny points of the instrument's sea-dwelling namesake, or they might suggest the sinister fins of a shark. Regardless, the reference to ocean life is evident, with the deeply shaded blue-black varnish over a striped maple veneer that suggests ripples in a sandy beach as the ocean breaks over it. Various other guitar models from the 1980s experimented with abstract, pointed designs, as heavy-metal bands sometimes used their instrument's weapon-like appearance as a visual complement to the loud, thrashing music that was their trademark. Probably inspired by the work of B.C. Rich, a California guitar maker who started building guitars with similarly spiky outlines a decade earlier, the Urchin never sold as well as the company's more traditionally shaped models of classic American guitars.
creator: Arai Company (Aria trademark), Nagoya, Japan
source: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
publisher: http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/electric-guitar-pro-ii-u-series-urchin-deluxe-model-128698
date: 1984
format: Overall: 103.5 x 38.1 x 4.5cm (40 3/4 x 15 x 1 3/4in.)

Bottle vase with calligraphic designs
description: Stoneware with natural ash and iron glaze
creator: Hamada Shoji Japanese, 1894 - 1978
source: Japan, Mashiko, Tochigi prefecture
publisher: Asian Art Museum http://searchcollection.asianart.org/view/objects/asitem/nid/19321
date: 1952-1953
format: H. 8 3/4 in x W. 6 1/8 in x D. 3 1/8 in; H. 22.2 cm x W. 15.6 cm x D. 7.9 cm

Hakutaku
description: Cosplay by Japanese cosplayer REIKA
creator: REIKA
source: worldcosplay.net
publisher: REIKA
date: February 2015
format: Photography, fabric work, makeup, embroidery, etc.

1980
description: Abstract piece
creator: Tanaka Atsuko
source: http://www.artnet.com/artists/atsuko-tanaka/1980-d4-a-0vlMJTrN6aTPVlA-XP_I_Q2 Can be found at SCAI The Bathhouse/Shiraishi Contemporary Art Inc.
publisher: Artnet Worldwide Corporation SCAI The Bathhouse/Shiraishi Contemporary Art Inc.
date: 1980
format: Paper, watercolors, drawings, guash, ink. On paper.

Water Lilies
description: Image of Kazuo Ohno performing his dance "Water Lillies" in 1987. Dance style: Butoh
creator: Dancer and choreographer: Kazuo Ohno Photographer: Nourit Masson-Sekine
source: https://historyofourworld.wordpress.com/tag/tatsumi-hijikata/
date: 1987
format: Image from a dance performance

The 3 Sirens
description: 24 color screen print on satin paper
creator: Hush
source: http://www.kumicontemporary.com/view/the-3-sirens-hush.html
publisher: Kumi Contemporary
date: 2012
format: 24 color print on satin paper; 56cmx56cm

Kanko Kuma (tourist bear)
description: This is a bear sculpture carved by an Ainu artist, Matsui Umetaro. These bears became very popular souvenirs from Hokkaido in the early 1900s.
creator: Matsui Umetaro
source: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
date: 1920s

Kamuy: Spirit of the Ainu
description: Artist, Noriko Kawamura, created this abstract piece after seeing textile art done by Peramonkoro Sunazawa, a respected Ainu textile artist.
creator: Noriko Kawamura
source: Ainu: Spirit of the Northern People, Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
date: 1998