His works are based in the tradition of Japanese landscape painting, while also containing an inventive sparseness that is wholly contemporary. Born on January 7, 1958 in Tokyo, Japan, Senju attended ...

But while gardens across the country get lots of love on social media, many Japanese will swear their fealty to one that’s off the beaten track – the garden at the Adachi Museum of Art in ...

Bijin-ga (paintings of beautiful women) and sansui-ga (landscape painting) in particular present subjects familiar to Japanese. After the Meiji Restoration of 1868, artworks imported from Europe ...

Noted for its minimalist style, natural landscape and tranquil nature, the Japanese garden is as much art as it is science. To the untrained eye, the evergreens, rocks, pebbles, sand, ponds and ...

If you have a yard, you can use anything natural from your garden, with maybe a few flowers from the grocery store.” Read on to learn more about the beautiful traditional Japanese art form of ...

It has been through Japanese art and through Japanese history—the ... In a 1994 Pomona College Magazine article, “Landscapes of the Mind,” Suzanne Muchnic, at the time the art writer for ...

Van Gogh’s tribute to Hiroshige is expressed most dramatically in two paintings that were based on the Japanese artist's prints. The first was inspired by Hiroshige’s The Plum Garden at ...

“Kintsugi: The Restorative Art of Naoko Fukumaru” runs through Jan. 27 at the Portland Japanese Garden. Artist and conservator Naoko Fukumaru, shown here in a provided photo, applies gold ...

‘The Japanese Garden’ covers the history, design and concepts behind this unique Asian art form through a charmingly detailed narrative that varies in pace from thematic chapters, to intimate essays ...