Shunga – Japanese erotic art – depicts a world awash with sex. In a famous image, a woman lies on the sea floor, head thrown back in ecstasy, as a huge-eyed octopus pleasures her. Couples with ...

The exhibition 'Young Poland: Polish Art 1890-1918' includes echoes of Japanese artistic tradition. More than 150 works including paintings, drawings and prints from the 19th and 20th centuries ...

of the Japanese band One Ok Rock. “The magic of Sashiko Gals is in how they transform ordinary sneakers into wearable art,” Jake Silbert wrote on the Highsnobiety site in December. We are ...

She was studying Japanese at a language school in Tokyo when the COVID-19 pandemic erupted. Compelled to return to China, she was frustrated, but also determined to come back to Japan after the ...

A "great bathing" event to clean one of the largest bronze statues of Kobo Daishi in Japan was held at Imayama Daishi temple in the city of Nobeoka, M Full article Participants head for Pyongyang ...

To delve deeper into this unique art, we talked with lifelong sashiko artisan Atsushi Futatsuya. To learn more about Japanese shashiko, read: The 300-year-old Japanese method of upcycling Video ...

By Eleanor Stanford The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the greatest contemporary art. By Jason Farago Textile ...

With more than 100 independent roasteries and a diverse coffee culture, Los Angeles has become the top domestic destination ...

TOKYO, March 6 — The Japanese government plans to invite to Japan this summer stateless people born to Japanese nationals and left in the Philippines after World War II, to coincide with the ...