‘We wanted a Zen-like garden to go with the house,’ says the ... with a shallow Corten-steel fire bowl flanked on two sides by simple backless benches, with a selection of cushions from ...

These were special green stones imported from the Japanese island of Shikoku, selected and arranged by American artist and designer Isamu Noguchi in 1961 as a “Zen garden” entryway to a new ...

UJI, Kyoto Prefecture--Three days a week, a historic Zen temple here transforms itself ... a resident of Kyoto’s Fushimi Ward who enjoyed a bowl of ramen that looked like carbonara spaghetti.