Category: Living Arts


Sept.02

Lacquer artist, Seiichiro Fujino

Sept.02 Simon Pilling

by Simon Pilling, specialist in Japanese lacquer ware Lacquer – the most perfect and finest objects ever issue…

Sept.01

When Art Met Craft in Meiji Era Japan

Sept.01

From the Japan Times https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/04/03/arts/art-met-craft-meiji-era-japan/#.W3LU…

Aug.15

Contemporary Glass Artist Takeshi Sano

Aug.15

by Dasha Klyachko, specialist in Japanese contemporary glass                                                  …

Aug.15

Checking Out: The Final Days of Hotel Okura

Aug.15

by Russel Wong in an article from the Kyoto Journal The announcement that the Hotel Okura was slated for demol…

Aug.15

“If I Were a Rich Man” from Fiddler on the Roof, Japanese version

Aug.15

Historically, the most popular musical in Japan  

Aug.15

Shoji Hamada’s grandson, Tomoo, redefines his family’s sensibility for the 21st century

Aug.15

by Robert Yellin, specialist in Japanese ceramics The perks and pressures of being the son of someone famous c…

Aug.14

I Only Have Eyes for Blue (and White)

Aug.14

by Amy Katoh, author, lecturer

Aug.12

Traveling exhibition shares masterworks of Japanese contemporary ceramics: the Horvitz Collection

Aug.12

Hands & Earth: Six Perspectives on Japanese Contemporary Ceramics  .   . Now open at the Lowe Art Museum M…

Aug.09

Koho Tatsumura’s contemporary designs in the hands of the world’s finest weavers

Aug.09 Contemporary Art Kyoto

Koho Tatsumura Nishiki Weaving for the 21st Century. Japanese weaving is so intricate and thus so stunningly beautiful that experts worldwide have come to both describe it and distinguish it from ordinary brocade simply by using its Japanese name, Nishiki (pronounced as in knee-she-key.)

Nov.28

Listen to Shakuhachi

Nov.28

6 minutes:  Tsuru no Sugomori (Nesting of Cranes) is performed by Kohachiro MIYATA on the shakuhachi bamboo fl…