Sharing arrangements of flowers shows our love,” says Carolyn Alter, Certified Associate 1 st Term Master, head teacher for ...

NARA—The Nara National Museum has unveiled the details of its first full-scale exhibition devoted to national treasures, which will bring together Japan’s finest works of Buddhist art next ...

The ancient practice began more than 2,000 years ago, when Japanese monks traveled to China as emissaries and brought ...

Japanese printmaking, with its rich history and refined aesthetics, has long been a cornerstone of the nation’s visual culture. Originating as a tool for religi ...

This practice became part of Japanese culture through Buddhism, integrating teachings ... in the process before its creation. This art allows you to enter a state of peace and harmony, helping ...

Carolyn Wargula is Assistant Professor of Art History. She is a specialist of Japanese Buddhist art with a focus on the materiality and intermediality of textiles, the social significances of the body ...

and Japanese devised a system for equating Buddhist deities with Shinto gods. The Heian aristocracy could never have enjoyed lives filled with romance, poetry, art, and religious devotion without ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

art and culture in Japan, but a part of me wondered if, in so desacralized a landscape, it was possible to experience the older origin of those ideas within Buddhism — and whether, without those ...

The origins of this elegant art form are traced to the “kuge” flower offerings at Buddhist temples dating back to about the 7 th century in Japan, says Alter. A kuge is an asymmetrical ...