Kodo Arts Japanese Antiques will be displaying a number of dragon paintings, wood dragon temple carvings, bronze garden dragon spouts, and scrolls depicting dragons as well as carp banners at their ...

(See a real “house of dragons” in this Slovenian cave.) Ryujin is a rare example of a Japanese dragon associated with fire, suggesting that his design elements may have influenced the iconic ...

A 16 th century bronze bell rang 108 times on Sunday during a celebration of the Japanese New Year at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum. The sounding of the 2,100-pound bell, from a temple in ...

San Francisco's Asian Art Museum will mark the close of 2023 and welcome 2024 by sounding a 16th-century Japanese bronze bell Sunday. Museum visitors will strike the 2,100-pound bell 108 times "to ...

Japanese night fire-works are of two kinds, ground displays, and rockets. Day fire-works are exclusively of the latter kind, for obvious reasons. Effect can only be produced by them in the air and ...

Cleaners Kazuyoshi Taguchi and Kazumi Minowa pictured cleaning the bronze statue "It's a very unusual task," one of the veteran cleaners, 54-year-old Kazuyoshi Taguchi, told AFP.