The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of ...

Still, given the hand-wringing and self-righteous mudslinging that have accompanied recent Gauguin exhibitions, the time is ...

V.D. Savarkar is everywhere—in and outside the Andaman Cellular Jail—while the contributions of other revolutionaries who ...

T his title might be a bit of a misnomer – pretty much all fantasy is inspired by world mythology, though the rate of ...

The Saluki’s origins stretch back as far as 7000 BC, with carvings and depictions found in the ancient civilizations of Sumer and Egypt. These elegant hounds graced tomb walls and temple art, ...

Poet, musician, singer, wit, polemicist, journalist, biographer and letter-writer, Thomas Moore (May 28, 1779 – February 25,1852) was one of the most brilliant figures of the Regency as well as the ...

On the rural islands off the coast of Japan, a handful of believers practice a version of Christianity that has direct links ...

Centered on the extraordinary appeal of "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai, this exhibition offers a smartly ...

But in Japan, Korea and China, the art of matchmaking is alive and well ... In Japan, the practice of omiai has evolved from ancient times, when samurai families arranged marriages for their ...

That self-stuffing. And so ten years ago, in my early thirties, I began expanding the circle of my known world by walking the historic routes of Japan. With that simple impulse to walk ...

In the early 1970s, South African summer sun searing his back, 14-year-old Stephen Townley Bassett dutifully followed his uncle into the shade offered by one of myriad caves dotted among the ...