Japan’s traditional crafts have long been a core of the daily lives of the nation’s people while also bewitching hearts as ...

The antiques trade and lower- to mid-tier sectors of the art market are waiting for the situation to stabilise, while the ...

An exhibition of bamboo and wooden slips from the middle reaches of the Yangtze River opens at the Wanlin Art Museum of Wuhan ...

The Gundam bamboo craft puzzle will be available in Japan with a price tag of 10,000 yen (~$66.70). Due to the strict geo-restrictions of the Premium Bandai website, people residing outside Japan ...

On the occasion of International Ikebana Day, observed annually on June 6, the Ikebana International Hyderabad Chapter #250 ...

Nothing embodies beauty, simplicity and strength like a bamboo fence. In Japan bamboo fencebuilding is an art form. Yet you don’t have to be an artist, or even particularly handy, to learn how ...

Bamboo craft stretches back at least 1,000 years in Japan, and his great-grandfather, Chikuunsai I, was the first of the family to take up the art of weaving it 120 years ago. Each generation has ...

These are woven vases in lacquered bamboo, inseparable from the Japanese floral art of ikebana, a decorative natural composition with pure lines, charged with spirituality. The exhibition "100 ...

Japan's century-old Mingei, or folk art, movement celebrates the everyday work of anonymous artists. It stands in contrast to both fine arts and industrially mass-produced goods. And it's having a ...

Heshiki tries to stick to original techniques as closely as possible, hand-poking with bamboo ... the art had almost disappeared over a century of assimilation. As a fourth-generation Japanese ...