Furosaki Tea Screen with Net Decor, 1920s, Japan, two-panel folding screen; gold leaf and gold on paper, 18½ x 67½ in. (47 x 171.5 cm)

Design Miami 2025
December 2 – 7, 2025
Booth G21
Convention Center Drive & 19th Street, Miami Beach

Thomsen Gallery is delighted to present an exceptional selection of Japanese art from the Taisho and early Showa eras (1910–1940) during this year’s Design Miami.

They will be showcasing a remarkable collection of bamboo basketry, an art form that flourished in the 1920s and 1930s, including masterworks by Tanabe Chikuunsai, Maeda Chikubōsai, and Iizuka Rōkansai.

The baskets will be complimented by a group of gold lacquer boxes and tea caddies, contemporary ceramics, and folding screens.

If you will be in Miami Beach during the fair, Thomsen Gallery would be delighted to welcome you to Booth G-21 to share in the appreciation of these extraordinary works!

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Utagawa Hiroshige II & Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III), Thirty-Six Scenes of the Pride of Edo: Horikiri Iris Garden (Edo jiman sanjurokkyo: Horikiri hanashobu), oban tate-e 14 1/4 by 9 3/4 in. (36.1 by 24.7 cm)

Pride of Edo: Collaboration in the Capital City
November – December 2025
Online Exhibition

Scholten Japanese Art is delighted to unveil a special Online Exhibition presenting a selection of prints from the 1864 collaborative series celebrating the famous sights and culture of the historic city, Thirty-Six Scenes of the Pride of Edo (Edo jiman sanjurokkyo), featuring figures by Utagawa Toyokuni III (Kunisada, 1786-1865), set within landscapes designed by Utagawa Hiroshige II (1826-1869).

The Pride of Edo series combines several ukiyo-e tropes: images of bijin (beautiful people, mostly women), celebrating local specialties associated with meisho (famous or popular views) of the capital. Published in the twilight of the Edo Period (1600-1868), the era named after the metropolis itself, the series captures a glimpse of the city and its denizens shortly before the dramatic pivot to modernity on the not-too-distant horizon. But until then, the Edokko (residents of Edo) are depicted going about their daily lives, visiting their favorite haunts, and enjoying the familiar entertainments offered by their hometown. Most of the locations and subjects were readily recognizable to the audience at the time, featuring familiar landmarks with figures modeling up-to-date fashions whilst on their outings about town.

The series seems almost nostalgic, illustrating the traditional lifestyles of the residents of Edo, with very few visual acknowledgments of the encroaching foreigners and their influences which had been flooding through the nearby port of Yokohama for five years. Edo would be renamed Tokyo just four years hence following a violent revolution, with bloody battles fought within the city itself, and concluding with the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate. But until then, the Edokko present the best of their city, with pride.

To learn more and view the online exhibition, click here.

Hokuju (1763 – 1824), Susaki, c. 1810, woodblock print, 8 x 13 in (20.32 x 33.02 cm)

As the holiday season approaches, The Art of Japan is thrilled to present 19 stunning new acquisitions, featuring works by Keith, Yoshida, Hasui, Yoshitoshi, Shinsai, Hokuju, and a complete set of Kunisada’s Six Jewel River prints. Each piece offers a unique glimpse into the beauty, craftsmanship, and history of Japanese art.

They invite you to explore these exceptional additions and bring their stories into your collection—view them all here!

From all of us at Asia Week New York, we wish you a happy and safe Thanksgiving! May your travels be smooth, your celebrations joyful, and your holiday season inspired by the art that surrounds us!

Kota Arinaga, Netz Series, “Dappled Sunlight” 木漏れ日, 2024, Glass, H19 1/4 x W8 1/2 x D8 1/2 in, H49 x W21.5 x D21.5 cm, (C28584NP)

Design Miami 2025
Kekkai: The Space Between
December 2 – 7, 2025
Convention Center Drive & 19th Street, Miami Beach

Ippodo Gallery is delighted to present Kekkai: The Space Between at Design Miami, December 2-7, 2025. The exhibition investigates the Japanese concept of kekkai—a boundary, threshold, or interface. Rather than a mere division, they explore it as a critical site of interaction: a porous plane where materials, forms, and ideas encounter one another, creating a dynamic and transformative dialogue.

The curated selection of works examines the tangible and conceptual boundaries that structure our experience: between nature and artifice, tradition and innovation, solid and void. Featuring an international roster of Japanese and European artists, including Agnes Husz, KAKU, Kan Yasuda, Ken Matsubara, Kenta Hirai, Kodai Ujiie, Laura de Santillana, Lee Jae Hyo, Masahiro Maeda, Midori Tsukada, Mitsukuni Misaki, Shihoko Fukumoto, Ymer & Malta, and Yukiya Izumita.

Through a masterful and conscious engagement with materiality, each piece acts as a contemporary kekkai, framing the profound and poetic moments that occur in the liminal space where one state transitions to another. In response to a world saturated with noise and information, this exhibition constructs a necessary domain for contemplation, the essential “space between”. The collection invites a closer look at the boundaries—both visible and implied—that define, separate, and ultimately, connect.

They look forward to welcoming you soon to Miami Beach!

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A Voyage to the South Seas
December 1 – 5, 2025
16-17 Pall Mall, London

Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd. is pleased to present their upcoming exhibition, A Voyage to the South Seas on view from December 1–5. Discover an exceptional selection of artifacts from Melanesia and Polynesia, thoughtfully curated to highlight the rich artistic traditions of the region. Their online catalogue offers an in-depth look at these remarkable works.

To explore them all, click here.

Jar, 1522 – 1566. Chinese. Porcelain with cobalt blue underglaze. h. 13 3/4 in. (34.9 cm); w. 15 in. (38.1 cm). San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Lenora and Walter F. Brown, 2004.20.15.

First Tuesday: Friends of Winter Calligraphy
Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 5-7pm
Great Hall
Free with Museum Admission

Join the San Antonio Museum of Art for a welcoming community gathering inspired by the beloved story of the Three Friends of Winter—the pine, bamboo, and plum blossom, enduring symbols of resilience, renewal, and hope. Enjoy creating your own work of Chinese calligraphy, and contribute your wishes for the year ahead by writing a hope, intention, or affirmation to add to a large, lighted plum tree installation. As your messages join others among the glowing branches, they’ll form a collective display of light, connection, and shared spirit.

Tuesdays at SAMA are free to Bexar County residents and packed with programming for visitors of all ages. Check the calendar for a full schedule of performances, artmaking, tours, lectures, and more.

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History Walk: Asian Americans and the Downtown Arts Scene, 1980–2000
Monday, December 1, 2025, 1-3pm

On World AIDS Day, join the China Institute Gallery for a meaningful walking tour through downtown New York. Many talented artists of Asian descent helped shape the city’s dynamic art scene in downtown New York in the last decades of the 20th century, including some in their current exhibition, Metamorphosis: Chinese Imagination and Transformation. This guided walk will honor their creative legacies and remember those lost during the AIDS crisis, tracing their footsteps through the iconic streets of the Lower East Side and East Village. Artists highlighted in this walk may include Ching Ho Cheng, Chuang Che, David Diao, Ming Fay, Tehching Hsieh, Ma Hao, Anna Sui, Tan Dun, Tseng Kwong Chi, Muna Tseng, and Martin Wong. The sites to be visited include where they exhibited, worked, and hung out with peers.

Whether you are a local who knows these neighborhoods well or just visiting the city, join them for this unique art historian’s perspective on downtown New York, a chance to see its streets not just as they are today, but as the vibrant canvas for a generation of transformative artists.

The tour begins from the Lower East Side, inside the Delancey St – Essex St subway station on the downtown F-Train platform at 1 PM. Run time is approximately 2 hours. The tour totals 3 miles of walking on uneven terrain on the Lower East Side, East Village, SoHo, Tribeca, and Chinatown, making brief standing stops at each selected site. Please wear comfortable walking shoes and dress for the weather. The tour will proceed rain or shine; in the event of extreme weather that requires a tour cancellation, we will contact registered guests in advance.

The tour is limited to a maximum of 20 people. Reservations close two hours before the scheduled start time. For more information, please contact Tracy Jiao at [email protected].

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Takahashi Asaya 高橋朝也, Wajima lacquer natsume (tea caddy), with signed wood box, lacquer, wood, gold, mother of pearl inlay, H7.1 × W6.8 cm

Ritual and Renewal: Modern Japanese tea caddies and incense implements
November 20 – December 19, 2025
18 East 64th Street, Ste 1F
Currently open by appointment

From the vast material cultures and traditions of the Japanese tea ceremony, Dai Ichi Arts, Ltd. is delighted to present Ritual and Renewal: Modern Japanese tea caddies and incense implements, an intimate winter-season showcase of small works by master Japanese ceramicists. This collection highlights exquisite ceramic tea caddies (Chaire) and incense ceramics (Koro & Kogo), inviting viewers to slow down and meditate alongside beloved and thoughtful forms.

These pieces—whether cherished as objets d’art or used in traditional tea settings—offer quiet moments of reflection and connect us to the rich material culture of tea.

They warmly invite you to explore this thoughtful selection and experience the spirit of ritual and renewal this festive season.

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Courtesy Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art

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Each year, Spiral magazine explores a different Buddhist concept from a variety of perspectives. At a time when anger and rage seem more present—and potent—than ever, the next issue delves into the concept of wrath.

In Buddhism, wrath is an energy wielded with intention, skill, and compassion to offer protection or remove obstacles. Wrathful deities, with their fearsome guises and gruesome appearance, embody this energy to aid all beings on the path to enlightenment. With greater knowledge of wrath comes the opportunity to transform this powerful force into fierce compassion and meaningful action.

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