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Japan’s iconic terraced rice paddies are held in place by traditional stone walls. But the craft of building these walls is a dying art. Reporter Hannah Kirshner recently traveled to Fukuoka ...
“Gucci Cosmos,” which runs until Dec. 1, features archival items from the Italian fashion house, arranged for display alongside Japanese art and craft works to create a space that symbolizes ...
Aoki's anamorphic terracotta sculpture stood out for its "honest expression of the ancestral coil process, the jury said in a ...
In a country where men heavily dominate traditional crafts, more young Japanese women (nearly half of Gyokusendo’s artisans) now embrace the traditional art. “The Japanese character for ...
Experience Japan at Micronesia Mall with charity art, crafts fair, limited film showing through Studio Ghibli Fest 2024, and more. A group of about 40 students from Niigata College of Art and ...
Just in front of the Park building of Benesse House, the sleek and art-filled hotel-cum-museum at the heart of Japan’s Naoshima ... Now that border restrictions have tentatively been relaxed ...
Mingei, in the vein of the British Arts and Crafts movement before it, was a response to rapid industrialization in Japan. Mingei argued for the recognition and continued production of functional ...
ANTIQUES ROADSHOW visited the Japanese American Museum of San Jose during its 2014 trip to Santa Clara in order to explore remarkable arts and crafts made by Japanese and Japanese-Americans held ...
As production of Japan’s traditional craft works goes into decline because ... buyers by sparking a renewed interest in Japanese art and design in the way that “Japonisme” swept 19th-century ...