The annual chime market is happening now through July 21 at the Kawasaki Daishi Heikenji Temple in Kawasaki, Japan. This is ...

From cherry blossoms to neon skylines, Japan in 2025 is a symphony of contrasts waiting to be explored. Here is a curated ...

A staff member unveils the cover of "Avatamsaka Sutra, Volume 22, Main Text, in Gold on Indigo Paper" during a media briefing ...

Thompson, a specialist in Japanese art, has worked as a curator in that field at the MFA since 2004. The museum is widely known for its superb collection of classical Japanese artworks (sculptures ...

Ever since Naoshima, Japan, became home to a number of contemporary art museums, sculptures, and installations, the island's identity as an "art island" has become intertwined with its history and ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has announced a partnership with Canon Inc. and the Kyoto Culture Association (KCA) to present the exhibition “Masterpieces from Smithsonian’s National ...

Transience has come to inform so much of Japan’s culture — even its sense of self. T commissioned the Tokyo-based fine-art photographer Moe Suzuki to travel from her home to Kyoto, the city of ...

In 1905, Frank Lloyd Wright made his first trip to Japan, where he observed with his own eyes the architecture and landscape that had deeply influenced his practice for nearly two decades.

Japan’s art-market domination peaked with the 1990 sale of van Gogh’s “Portrait of Dr. Gachet” for $82.5 million. Credit... Peter Morgan/Associated Press.

Founded as a place for Buddhist worship in 759 by a Chinese monk, Jianzhen, from the Tang dynasty, the temple was the first in Japan to be devoted to a Chinese Buddhist denomination, the Nanzan ...