Cat-spotting is just one playful way to explore the craft culture of one of Japan’s top woodworking towns, which has been chiselling the material since the 1700s. Surrounded by mountains in central ...

Glass may be fragile, but when it's melted, it can be molded into a brand new shape. Just like her medium, 53-year-old Kurumi ...

REDDING, Calif. — Professional dancers from Japan visited schools across the Northstate to perform traditional Japanese dances for local students. They are part of a dance club called Taiko-ren ...

But in addition to some unpleasant side effects stemming from Kyoto’s sky-high popularity with overseas visitors, the city’s tourism scene is now also being affected by certain aspects of the ...

Make your contemporary spaces feel close to your heart and culture with the help of traditional decor pieces ... movement to integrate Indian heritage art into modern living spaces.

On March 30, 2025, the small city of Kurayoshi established one more local attraction with the opening of the Tottori Prefectural Museum of Art. Even prior to its ... for depicting yokai (creatures ...

But the building’s basement is the real intersection. “Mixing technology and art,” said Eric Beauchamp, who works in Studio B-13. “There’s the wood shop, the mad scientist’s lab ...

Imasa, also known as Kanda house, was once used as both a store and the residence of a lumber dealer and features traditional Japanese woodworking techniques. The ceiling is made from 1,500-year-old ...

A new exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art showcases the longtime cultural meaning in the practice of chanoyu Nathan Pugh - Freelance Writer The Japanese word for a tea ceremony ...

A founding member of the bureau’s specialist Art Crime Team, the Oregon-based agent was well-versed in art history — and trained to pose as a would-be buyer, authenticator or dealer of stolen ...

From learning to carve woodblocks or make pottery, to observing artisans at work, tourists can help sustain and revive these art forms ... “The sales of traditional Japanese crafts peaked ...