This spring and summer, Japan’s ancient aesthetic heritage meets the cutting edge of animation. On at the Tokyo National ...

The powerful 12,000-year-old art of Taiko drumming has been used in worship and battle throughout Japanese history. In this episode, visually-impaired content maker Lucy Edwards learns about the ...

Expo has kicked off in Osaka, Japan, bringing together more than 150 countries and regions, each with their own culture and ...

The Japanese art form of ikebana dates back to ancient times and has evolved through ... temples dating back to about the 7 th century in Japan, says Alter. A kuge is an asymmetrical, three ...

The murals, which are designated as national treasures, comprise paintings of 16 men and women, as well as drawings of guardian deities representing four directions and deriving from ancient ...

Iraq's foreign minister announced on Tuesday the retrieval of various artifacts and textured paintings from Japan and Switzerland ... textured paintings from the ancient al-Tar caves." ...

In Wajima, the heart of Japan's lacquerware tradition, Paul Carter meets a community determined to preserve their craft. From the intricate layering glossy lacquer to precision decoration ...

“It is an exhibition dedicated to Buddhist and Shinto art that only the Nara ... Jingu shrine and symbolizes Japan’s diplomatic relations with the ancient Korean Peninsula.

are not ancient but arose in the 1920s. Japan officially recognized karate as a martial art only 86 years ago. And its origins are not in mainland Japan at all: It was born in the archipelago of ...

Part of the group’s theology, though, was rooted in ancient Buddhist beliefs that ... Surviving Buddhist art from the Kamakura period — some of which is on display in Asia Society Museum’s current ...