Japanese girls are taught the art of flower arrangement, by their mothers and even the poorest home will have its tokonoma niche where flowers are displayed beneath a cherished painting.

Dr James Fox explores how the artistic life of three great Japanese cities shaped the country's attitudes to past and present, east and west, and helped forge the very idea of Japan itself ...

The gift increases the MIA’s Japanese art holdings to 7,000 objects. An exhibition of more than 170 items from the gift will be on view starting September 26.

Japanese art is rich in animal imagery—humorous badgers, mysterious foxes, divine horses, and fearsome lion-dogs. That is the theme of the newest exhibition at the Honolulu Museum of Art. Anim… ...