This collective offers illustrators the chance to represent the Japanese capital by adapting the style of cove…

Like many foods the Japanese currently enjoy, its likely that miso originated in China and traveled by way of …

Kumquats are called kinkan 金柑 in Japanese, meaning “golden citrus.” The scientific name is Citrus …

Alongside the first-time English publication of his essays, an exhibition on the Mono-ha artist surveys his ex…

Inherited from tales by Buddhist preachers and now secularised, this solo performance involves a storyteller m…

The white star is particularly celebrated in Japan and has inspired various artists, whose works are featured …

The potato is native to the Americas; the Incas are believed to have been the first to cultivate wild tubers a…

You can tell that September was the busiest time at work when all I could manage to write about was putting to…

‘Are you a collector or a maker?’ a chatty chap asked me during a ceramics exhibition months ago. …

How are the three objects pictured above — a broom, a bright pink bush and a package of greenish-black s…