The Nakasendo road still exists in its entirety - as do dozens of the post towns it weaves between - and can form an epic ...

(Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu) BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- "Summer rain on the wall traces of torn poem cards" -- When Chinese traveler "Hikari" visited the Rakushisha in Kyoto, Japan, she could not help ...

The ink that blacked out the faces of a Japanese American woman and the sleeping toddler in her arms was the kind of hateful vandalism seemingly aimed at defacing not just public art but history ...

BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- "Summer rain on the wall traces of ... the Rakushisha in Kyoto, Japan, she could not help thinking of the poem written by Basho, a 17th-century Japanese haiku master ...

featuring 350 works of art, with paintings, sculpture, video and audio, as well as historical objects and ephemera spanning a century. As you travel room to room, the seldom-heard voice of Marcus ...

The closest echo in art history for such a fiercely furrowed, lock-eyed, and, yes, trumpant glare is an out-of-the-way portrait from the paintbrush of the 17th-Century Italian Baroque artist ...

In a converted warehouse located in a lush mountainous area about an hour’s drive north of Tokyo — the exact location kept under wraps until your reservation is confirmed — Eugene Kangawa ...

Surrealist Joan Miró (1893–1983) was one of the most prominent – and prolific – artists of the twentieth century ... historical influences, from Japanese art of the Edo and Meiji periods ...

some circulated here wholesale or modified to suit similar narratives in Japan. In this day and age, Amamiya asserts, conspiracies need to be taken seriously. A century ago in the wake of the Great ...

“Pictures of Belonging” traces the careers of three female artists who flourished despite the U.S. government’s imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II. By Aruna D’Souza One ...