AYANA Bali's Tevana Garden has been awarded an Honourable Award in the Parks and Open Space category at the International ...

In this first in a series exploring Japanese aesthetics, The Diplomat focuses on meanings that can be found in the country’s unique streets and gardens. What is it about Japan’s visual landscape that ...

Clear off some space as more sets from LEGO are on the way including a new LEGO Art Japanese Cherry Blossom Landscape ...

Japanese-style gardens first caught the public imagination in the U.S. at an 1893 world exposition in Chicago, became a sought-after feature in Gilded Age estates and were later adapted to open-plan ...

What does it mean to say that a building or a piece of culture is Japanese? Defining ‘Japaneseness’ is no easy feat. What makes Japan’s landscape so visually distinctive? And is the answer to this ...

Japanese art was formed by the crucible of tension between the cultivated, worldly Confucian intelligentsia, the contemplative, ascetic Buddhist monks and philosophers, and the reverent, ...

On a recent visit to New York I stopped at a Japanese bookstore in Manhattan. Among the English-language books about Japan, I encountered a section of a shelf marked “WABI-SABI” and stocked with ...

The view of the aged cherry tree from Damian Flanagan's window (Damian Flanagan) By Damian Flanagan You sometimes hear of concepts in foreign cultures that you can understand in a kind of vague, ...