The halls of Hotel Gajoen are covered in so much art that the entire building resembles an art museum, but the most exciting works can usually be found in the historical Hyakukaidan annex ...

Kanji are symbols that represent words in Japanese. They can stand alone ... In 1999, the Japanese government released a list of 100 Terraced Rice Fields in an attempt to draw attention to their ...

Kanae Collins, a passionate artist and educator, guides students through the intricate world of kanji, the logographic ...

Whether you’re paying attention or not, you’re surrounded by symbols. Part of high-level Japanese is recognizing when these symbols with deeper meanings or certain implications appear in daily ...

"He exhibited with these people, he won prizes," says American Art Museum co-curator Joann ... a woman's hand discards a bag filled with Japanese symbols, like a flag and a samurai sword.

The goal is not merely to reference these symbols but to replicate ... mass-produced icons with the “high art” aura of historical masterpieces and Japanese artistic tradition ...