Perched on a wooded hillside in southern Kyoto, Fushimi Inari is a 1,300-year-old temple dedicated to Inari, the Shinto deity of rice and sake (Japanese ... lacquered torii gates that line ...

Perched on a wooded hillside in southern Kyoto, Fushimi Inari is a 1,300-year-old temple dedicated to Inari, the Shinto deity of rice and sake (Japanese ... lacquered torii gates that line the ...

The vibe: A contemporary take on Japanese ... grand lacquerware art pieces like a floating black rock at the entrance, or elevators in dark red lacquer that evoke the torii gates of a shrine.

One of the newest debuts in this Japanese port city is the ... with grand lacquerware art pieces like a floating black rock at the entrance, or elevators in dark red lacquer that evoke the torii gates ...

Japanese collectors spent billions on European paintings during the bubble economy of the 1980s. Officials today hope to inspire a new generation of art lovers. The artist Yuko Mohri in her studio ...

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we ...

"The Gates," the public art installation that took over Central Park with saffron-colored fabric panels for 16 days in 2005, ...

Patricia E. Harris, Bloomberg Philanthropies’ chief executive, says: “The Gates changed the landscape, literally, for everyone who experienced it and for public art in New York City.

Hayato Kawamura, a 38-year-old from Osaka, Japan, has attracted widespread online attention for earning 140 million yen (approximately Rs 7.72 Crore) by renting out 200 old, decayed houses.

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Geraldine Roberts, assistant society editor of The Gazette-Republican in 1930, wrote a column about ...