arts, japanese

Examines the art culture in postwar Japan in a dynamic art exhibition whose images are derived from the Hiroshima bombing. Some of the paintings capture the past and the future and are graphic and animated and reveal the domination of the United States after the war.

Describes the creations of some of Japan's Living National Treasures, artists who are involved in various Japanese arts, including Yuzen dyeing, bamboo basket weaving, Bunraku puppetmaking, swordmaking, Noh theater, and neriage ceramics.