By Japanese standards, Okayama is a smallish city. With about 900,000 inhabitants, it is way behind such urban giants as ...

A new exhibition from the National Gallery of Victoria brings together over 70 fabulous garments of exquisite craftsmanship.

A gory set of manuals, one dating to the 17th century, advised Japanese warriors in the secret ways of seppuku.

On the rural islands of Nagasaki, a handful of believers practice a version of Christianity that has direct links to a time ...

Wagashi truly came into their own during the peaceful Edo period (1603-1868 AD), when the popularization ... anko is a cornerstone of Japanese confectionary art. Then there is nerikiri, exquisitely ...

ArtForum: The Naperville Partnership for Public Arts, a nonprofit, public-private initiative, launched last month and is ...

College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn is celebrating Japan’s iconic Shogun era with a never-seen-in-the-U.S. art exhibit. “Hokusai ...

Centered on the extraordinary appeal of "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai, this exhibition offers a smartly ...

Centered on the extraordinary appeal of "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai, this exhibition offers a smartly ...

Neanderthals may have used a red pigment on a rock to shape what looks like art - a rendition of a facial figure from 43,000 ...

Faced with marginalization and disinterest, Asian artists living in 1920s and 1930s Paris are now the subject of a major new ...

John Westbrooke views a British Museum exhibition of “pictures of the floating world” Looking at Utagawa Hiroshige’s work, ...