Nishijinori, the intricate weaving for kimonos that dates back more than a thousand years in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto ...

Alternately subtle and flamboyant, hearty and austere, literary and visceral, the traditional dance idioms of Japan offer contemporary artists a vast array of experiences and vocabularies to adopt ...

A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Japanese Prints and Drawings in the Cotsen Collection (1800-1950). Princeton University ...

Architecturally, Japandi can be detected on a home’s exterior as much as its interior, be it the lines and materiality or the ...

“Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan” is a building-wide exhibition and much of it shows a fusion of old and new, traditional and modern, Japanese and foreign.

Held on July 12, the Hogyokukai’s eighth annual championship once again blended classic techniques with contemporary ...

Most recently, Ogata launched a series of crafted tea rooms and shops called Saboe in four spaces across Japan (Tokyo, Kyoto, ...

The ‘Modern’ Japanese Woman May 21, 2004. Parasol, circa 1930 (silk, bamboo, ivory, leather). All images courtesy of the Honolulu Academy of Arts ...

ALTHOUGH Tokyo is, naturally, the literary center of Japan, one of the Meccas of modern Japanese literature is a small town called Magome, ...

A model Japanese house in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park contains—and is the star attraction of—an exhibition celebrating four remarkable designers who worked together in 1930s Tokyo.