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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Early mirrors like this bronze one were all made of metal, which was then so highly polished that you could literally see your face in it. Like so much else in Japanese culture, mirrors originally ...