KYOTO--“Fusuma-e” sliding door paintings of clouds ... to expel Buddhism from Japan following the Meiji Restoration of 1868. When Hosokawa, 85, visited the temple in 2013 and saw the ...

This is the first “Yurei Zu” (ghost painting) in Japan confirmed to be an original ... donated it to Kudoji temple in 1784.” The committee confirmed the background information by studying ...

A 16 th century bronze bell rang 108 times on Sunday during a celebration of the Japanese New Year at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum. The sounding of the 2,100-pound bell, from a temple in ...