In Japan, tea ceremony (cha-dou ... to master the “way of tea”, then you can build a bot and automate your zen experience. That’s exactly what the people at Ano Labs did when they built ...

In a world obsessed with aesthetic perfection, wabi-sabi is an ancient Japanese philosophy that celebrates the beauty of the ...

The World Heritage site renowned for having one of the finest Zen rock gardens in Japan was built in 1450 ... decorated with original fusuma-e drawings. But the temple sold the artworks after ...

curator of Japanese art at Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler galleries, "Ryoan-ji remains the ur-site of the type—powerful, abstract, Zen Buddhist landscapes designed to invoke deep meditation." ...

Jiro Yoshihara was a Japanese artist known for his gestural abstract impasto paintings and zen-painting inspired hard-edge circles. He was associated with post-impressionism, surrealism, abstract art, ...

a Zen Buddhist priest who emigrated to the U.S. from Japan in the late 1960s. Like Jobs, Kobun was an innovator, lacked appreciation for rules and was passionate about art and design. It wasn't ...

Despite the growing global popularity of Japanese media, there hasn’t been a state-led system to archive art and ephemera created during the production of anime and manga—until now—leaving ...