Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art runs at the Metropolitan Museum (1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan) through January 13, 2012. We hope you enjoyed this article!

Japanese landscape painting, especially in its earlier stages, when Chinese ideals controlled it, seems even more formal and unreal. Yet here also we may discover much that is beautiful.

In the last article, we discussed some of the basic tenets of Japanese philosophy. These traditions, along with many others, converged to create a unique set of visual identifiers and artistic tenets ...

The Bowersock Gallery is set to host "Kawaii: American Style," an exhibition that promises to bring a playful twist to the ...

Perhaps this was a delayed reaction to a book by Japanese art critic Yanagi Soetsu, The Unknown Craftsman, which was translated into English and published in 1972. Subscribe to the Design newsletter.

In the late 19th century, Japanese aesthetics and craftsmanship overtook Paris, inspiring a movement that would radically transform Europe’s visual culture. By Nancy Hass IN 1870, THE FRENCH ...

Japanese art was formed by the crucible of tension between the cultivated, worldly Confucian intelligentsia, the contemplative, ascetic Buddhist monks and philosophers, and the reverent, ...