Artisans Craft Unique Buddhist Altar for Donald Keene; Urushi Lacquer Artist, Master Builder Combined Their Skills

A unique Buddhist altar with a hexagonal roof sits in a Kita Ward, Tokyo, apartment that for nearly half a century was Donald Keene’s home and base in Japan. Kazumi Murose, 73, an urushi lacquer artist and living national treasure, and Mikihisa Kinoshita, 66, a sukiya-zukuri master builder, created ...