In an age of Y2K-inspired loud graphics (think neon chrome, pixel motifs and holograms), a contrasting movement has quietly ...

Leading brands are embracing a “less is more” philosophy rooted in Japanese design logic. Rather than competing for attention ...

In her transcultural collection for Expo 2025, Polish designer Joanna Hawrot reimagines the kimono as a radical expression of ...

Artists from van Gogh, Whistler, Monet, and Edouard Manet to Klimt and Schiele were all, to varying degrees, influenced by the Japanese art. Van Gogh himself stated that he owed his inspiration to ...

One of the most-told stories about 19th-century art recounts how prints from Japan, suddenly available in the West after the country was wrenched open in the 1850s, profoundly altered European ...

French painter Henri Matisse first came into contact with ukiyo-e woodcut prints in the early 20 th century, when various world fairs brought Japanese art to Europe. Struggling to get his own ...

'Influential Japanese cuisine' (2/6). This slaughtering technique, which causes the animal less suffering and preserves it for longer, is increasingly appealing to French gourmets.

Oliver Moss, director of Asian art dealership Sydney L Moss, says the market for most Japanese works “took a blow” after Japan’s 1991 economic crash. Meanwhile, Chinese art has become pricey.

After the arrival of Buddhism, ikebana developed more clearly in the 15th and 16th centuries, along with other Japanese cultural arts, like chado (tea ceremony), kodo (incense appreciation), and ...

The influence of European art became more widespread in the early 18th century. After decades of proscription, the shogun – or military ruler – Yoshimune lifted a ban on studying foreign texts ...

The art of kintsugi is inextricably linked to the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi: a worldview centred on the acceptance of transience, imperfection and the beauty found in simplicity. Wabi-sabi is ...