The Japanese bento box, more formally known as obento, is at its most basic level a kind of boxed lunch. But that can seem like we're selling it short. Bento takes a simple meal and elevates it by ...

Matsuura, 60, had one of her works, which are a cross between bento box lunches and art ... declares a blurb on a strip of paper wrapped around “Bento Bijutsukan” (Bento museum), a book ...