In the 14th century in Japan, for example, mappō, or the end times, felt nigh, as Buddhist teachings would no longer be taught or received. This I learned at Anxiety and Hope in Japanese Art ...

So it had been for a century and a half — actually far longer ... From the death struggle that followed, the Minamoto clan emerged supreme. Japan was reborn, a land now of warriors and war ...

Born into a wealthy family in 1896 in Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture ... to be seen as legitimate artists in the mid-20th century. “This art form wasn’t really recognized at the time in ...

A century ago, the Japanese critic Sōetsu Yanagi, with the potters Shōji Hamada and Kawai Kanjirō, coined the term Mingei (“art of the people”), an elision of minshūteki kōgei ...

This ruling puts an end to the long-standing legal dispute between the countries concerning the 50cm (20 inch) statue stolen from Kannonji, a temple on Japan’s Tsushima island in Nagasaki ...

Spanning from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance in the 14th century, the Middle Ages encompassed a thousand years of social, cultural, and religious upheaval, and — most importantly ...

A South Korean court on Wednesday rejected a Buddhist temple’s claim to a statue that it said Japanese pirates looted in the 14th century, clearing the way for Japan to press for its return.