Less Fusion, More Tradition.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (or LACMA, if you're lazy) is featuring a show of exclusively traditional Japanese artwork that closes on September 14, 2008. Forgoing large-breasted heroines and other animé tropes that seem to be fixtures in most Japanese art lately, the show is an exciting throwback to nature and a less discordant, complicated time, before the advent of Tokyo Disneyland, when artists painted with watercolors and focused on subjects like tigers and herons.