WHAT: Estimated pre-sale to bring $5,000 to $10,000, an almost 48-inch high Japanese bronze sculpture of a samurai archer soared to $23,700 last month at James D. Julia in Maine. The fierce figure is ...

A large polka-dotted pumpkin sculpture by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama was swept out to sea today from its usual perch in a park in the southwestern Japanese city of Naoshima. Videos of the ...

Sapporo, Feb. 4 (Jiji Press)--A popular annual snow festival kicked off in Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido, northernmost Japan, on Wednesday, showcasing 210 ice and snow sculptures across three ...

SAPPORO -- The 76th Sapporo Snow Festival, a celebration of snow and ice adding a vibrant touch to winter in Hokkaido, opened Feb. 4 across three venu･･･ ...

Though not as small as the typical Faberge jeweled item, the effect of the Japanese fiber pieces is that of a group of miniatures. It's an assembly of small, exquisitely crafted objects, each of which ...

Kintsugi 金継ぎ is known as the Japanese art of putting broken things back together, like broken pottery, using materials mixed ...

An exhibition about Japan’s history of censoring art at the 2019 Aichi Triennale has been closed after just three days—due to censorship. The organizers of the trienniale shut down the exhibition ...

You've seen athletes depicted in stone statues. But how about snow? At the Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan, among the sculptures at the festival is none other than Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei ...

An ice sculpture festival was held at Matsumoto Castle Park and other locations in the city of Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, ...