Katsuo-ji offers visitors two different types of Darumas: the Kachi-Daruma, the classic doll known as “the winning Daruma” which is used to set a specific goal; or the Daruma-Mikuji, known as “the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The scrolls will be on display at the temple in Kyoto's Higashiyama Ward ... anniversary of the birth of Rinpa, the school of Japanese painting co-founded by Tawaraya Sotatsu.

Under the guidance of He Lifen, the provincial-level inheritor of Cantonese porcelain, Evan Kail gained hands-on experience in the entire creative process of painting Guangzhou's city flower, the ...