Artists of the age also broadly appropriated African and ancient motifs, especially those from Egyptian culture, following global interest in the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922. The ...

Crucial to developing the new style was the Ichimokukai, a group of printmakers who met monthly from 1939 to 1955 under the leadership of Onchi Kōshirō. But the upstart artists didn’t really ...