Century-old Tokyo geisha festival revives dying art The geishas glide with measured steps across a wooden stage, offering a glimpse of a long-misunderstood tradition that is becoming a rare sight in ...

Japanese artist takes over the Outernet - A new installation at the Outernet is bringing the legendary work of Hiroshige to ...

OSAKA -- A century has passed since the promulgation in April 1925 of the Peace Preservation Law, which stripped away freedom of speech and thought in Japan. Before its abolition in 1945 ...

Swords 1 to 6 have been identified as 19th century Dahomean swords and sword 7 is a European cutlass or couteau de chasse dated to the second half of the 18th century. Credit: Heritage (2025). DOI ...

The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of ...

Castlecomer became known for its coal mining industry, which began in the early 18th century and continued for ... wall in grey-green and white. All the art on the walls is also hers, save for ...

He wears an earring, his clothes seem to owe more to the 1980s New Romantic movement than 19th-Century costume ... celebrated for writing about the art of eating) and the idea that French cuisine ...

Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando designed the hotel in his signature minimalist aesthetic, creating spaces where nature, architecture, and art co-exist. Large apertures open ...

Whoa. What’s with all that traffic on Elm Street? At around 11 a.m. Monday, cars sat bumper to bumper in all three east-bound lanes of Elm Street starting at York. Near the intersection with High ...

A gentle sense of poetry suffuses this new exhibition at the British Museum, the first in this country for more than a quarter of a century to celebrate so extensively the prolific Japanese artist ...