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Mini-bonsai: Delicate, with a powerful presence
Many people consider bonsai to be an art form only for experts. However, there is a palm-sized type ...
December 29, 2022
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Kumanofude brush makers try to stay a hair ahead
KUMANO, Hiroshima — While sitting at his workshop table, Masaki Sanemori picks up and closely examin...
December 22, 2022
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Infusing the colors of Shikoku into designs
MATSUYAMA — After many years as a textile designer at Marimekko, the world-famous Finnish design hou...
December 8, 2022
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New technique sees Takaoka lacquerware applied to modern items
Small thin pieces of abalone shells were being carefully attached to the bottom of a dodecagonal gla...
November 17, 2022
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Efforts to pass down skills of Japanese artisans in the spotlight
An increasing number of non-Japanese are training in traditional Japanese crafts such as lacquerware...
November 17, 2022
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Adding touch of color with Ukrainian dyeing craft Pysanky
Pysanky are traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs, easily recognizable from their eye-catching colorful ...
November 10, 2022
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Young artist re-creates painting from fire-devastated Shuri Castle
NAHA — A young artist has reproduced a classic Chinese painting lost in the massive fire that destro...
November 3, 2022
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Exhibition commemorating 50 years after Okinawa’s return to Japan opens in Naha
NAHA — An exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the return of control of Okinawa to Japan...
October 22, 2022
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Katanuki art opens creative door for all
Prepare a colorful mat, and on top place a work of paper cutting, or paper from which interesting sh...
October 21, 2022
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Kyoto and Ukranian designers collaborate to aid reconstruction efforts
KYOTO — Six Kyoto firms that work with lacquerware, pottery and other traditional crafts are offerin...
October 13, 2022
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Industrial designer expresses himself with cardboard crafts
Masaki Odaka creates expressive and diverse figurines in his medium of choice — corrugated cardboard...
October 6, 2022
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Tokyo kids paint huge mural to thwart graffiti
Children on Sunday painted a large mural on an about 100-meter-wide wall in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, in ...
October 4, 2022
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Builder gives clients commemorative works by disabled artists
Shimizu Corp., a major construction company based in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, is offering its clients paint...
September 29, 2022
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Artwork by student sells for $11,340 at Christie’s
NEW YORK (Jiji Press) — A folding screen with a painting created by a Japanese student of a Tokyo Un...
September 21, 2022
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Annual Shoso-in exhibition to showcase 59 items
NARA — The Nara National Museum will hold the 74th exhibition of Shoso-in treasures from Oct. 29 to ...
September 21, 2022
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