Bunjinga
The Japanese term bunjinga refers to a style of painting produced by literati (bunjin). Bunjinga traces its roots to the paintings of Chinese literati of Song dynasty (960–1267). In Ja...
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Painting—Japan
The earliest surviving paintings in Japan date from the Kofun period (300–710 CE), when large tomb mounds (kofun) were constructed for all classes of society and ornamente...
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(EDS: THIS IS THE 2ND OF 2 FEATURES ON INTERNATIONAL LICENSING EXPO
HELD RECENTLY IN N.Y.)
Sachiko Shintani, an entrepreneur from Japan, hopes more
patterns and illustrations created by Japa...
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The brother of a Romanian woman believed to have been abducted
by North Korea in the late 1970s arrived in Japan from Romania Friday
to see a group of relatives of Japanese abductees.
Gabr...
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A relative of a Japanese national abducted by North Korean
agents met with a senior Romanian Foreign Ministry official in
Bucharest on Friday to call for the country's cooperation in
resolvi...
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Some of the most beautiful Japanese art crafts produced during
the past 50 years are to go on show at the British Museum in London
on Thursday in the first exhibition of its kind to be held o...
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A relative of a Japanese national abducted by North Korean
agents returned to Japan on Monday from a trip to Romania to see the
family of a suspected Romanian abductee, calling it ''fruitful....
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Yumi Terahata gathered more than a dozen female middle-school
students in a rented warehouse to teach them origami, the Japanese
art of folding paper into decorative shapes and figures.
Or...
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(EDS: ADDING BROTHER'S COMMENT, OTHER INFO)
The brother of a Romanian woman believed to have been abducted
by North Korea in the late 1970s arrived in Japan on Friday and
expressed outrage a...
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When the National Art Center Tokyo was inaugurated Jan. 21, it
was expected to attract about 1.5 million visitors during its initial
year.
But the facility, which has become part of a tren...
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Too much decadence is unhealthy, but this would be a boring city if there were zero duplexes with separate guest wings and two wet bars and gold-decorated his-and-her master bathrooms.
So it’...
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Bunjinga
FEATURE: Entrepreneur hopes U.S. manufacturers to be enticed by Japanese art
