The Genpei War (1180–85) saw the rise of the Minamoto clan and the fall of the Taira clan in a prelude to the Kamakura period (1185–1333). Here we summarize the major events of the conflict. The ...

The Chiba City Museum of Art has accumulated more than 500 works by Genpei Akasegawa, who sadly passed away this week. A multidisciplinary artist whose oeuvre includes everything from illustration, ...

The exhibition “Future Bodies from a Recent Past—Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s” at Museum Brandhorst brings to life a hitherto little-noticed phenomenon in art, and more ...

Avant-garde artist Genpei Akasegawa died of blood poisoning at a Tokyo hospital Sunday morning. He was 77. Born Katsuhiko Akasegawa in Yokohama, he attended Musashino Art School, now Musashino Art ...

Well-known avant-garde Japanese artist and writer Genpei Akasegawa died in a Tokyo hospital on Sunday Morning. According to NHK, the 77-year-old artist had been hospitalized repeatedly while battling ...

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Birushana: Rising Flower of Genpei is an otome visual novel developed and published by Idea Factory. In the west, it is published by Idea Factory International. Fifteen years after the Heiji Rebellion ...

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