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The $10 million job of moving a centuries-old shoya house from Japan to the U.S. was far more complicated than just taking apart a puzzle and putting it back together.
Participating in an ancient Japanese tradition, sipping from a $25,000 antique bowl and even finding a bit of a 1970s “Austin Powers” vibe. All can be part of the experience at Gallery Okubo ...
The “ten mat” room of the Shofuso Japanese house in Fairmount Park is so named because it is the size of ten tatami floor mats. It now welcomes visitors to sit on those mats and watch a three-channel ...
This summer, Japan House London opens its doors to a new exhibition centred around pictograms and Japanese design. Building ...
Archaeologists in Pompeii unearthed a rare tiny home while excavating the site of the ancient Italian city, officials said. The home was buried beneath the ash and debris that wiped out Pompeii ...
Nishijinori, the intricate weaving for kimonos that dates back more than a thousand years in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto ...
Colums frame the "peristylium," or courtyard, in the center of the Ancient Roman Domus Vettiorum, House of Vettii, in the Pompeii Archeological Park, near Naples, southern Italy, December 14, 2022.
A 17-year-old Canadian national used his fingernail to etch the name "Julian" into a wooden pillar supporting the roof of the Toshodaiji Kondo temple built in 759 AD in the city of Nara, Japan.