Retro, vintage, classic: these themes are gaining more and more popularity in the design industries during the 20th and 21st centuries. The cause of this enduring trend may be due to the modern world's recent and inventive recipe for cultural blending: the perfect composition of modern aesthetic sensibilities and the essence of timelessness of traditional art. This new creation also obviously fits into Japanese contemporary art, with an added emphasis on the aesthetic blend of East and West. Plum and Maple Trees, 2009 (Figure 1) by Takako Azami is a stunning example of this new cultural invention. The work was part of the exhibition "DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow 2009", The Achievements of the Japanese Government's Study Abroad Program for Artists provided by the Agency for Cultural Affairs at the National Arts Center in Tokyo, Japan. Takako Azami, one of twelve Japanese contemporary artists who participated in the exhibition, was educated in Japan in his early years and then continued his studies in the United States. Azami trained as a Nihon-ga (traditional Japanese painting) painter during his undergraduate studies at Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan. She then obtained a Japanese government study abroad program scholarship and spent her residency at an international studio and curatorial program in New York, USA. Azami's latest achievements include her Freeman Fellowship for the Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency and the Pola Art Foundation Fellowship, both awarded in 2009. She continues to exhibit extensively both nationally and internationally1. His painting Plum Trees and Maples is the representative product of Azami's culturally integrated upbringing, allowing a medium of paper to constitute an element of the work. A true product of the modern invention of cultural mixing, Azami succeeded in establishing an integration of the old, the new, the East and the West, all in a single work. Works Cited Field, George. “On the physical causes of colors. » In Art in Theory, 1815-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas. Ed. Charles Harrison, Paul Wood and Jason Gaiger, 234-238. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 1998. Hamilton, George Heard. Painting and sculpture in Europe: 1880-1940, 6th ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. Katagiri, Junichi., ed. Fashion illustration file. Tokyo: Genko-sha Co., Ltd., 2007. Kleiner, The Art of Fred S. Gardner Through the Ages: The Western Perspective, 13th ed. Boston: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2006. Kubota, Shigeo et al. DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow Exhibition 2009. Tokyo: The Cultural Affairs Agency, 2009.