Magazine published for artists and art amateurs in modern Japan. It provided information on art administration, art market, developments of local and overseas art world, and also published numerous interviews with top-level artists or collectors such as Yokoyama Taikan, Kaburagi Kiyokata, Kuroda Seiki, Takamura Kouun etc. It even included gossips of artists or developments of antique market, and supposed to have been read also as entertainment.