A simple request to examine a centuries-old artwork led to a stunning discovery: the paintings on “fusuma” sliding doors owned by a long-established family in northern Japan were deemed to be missing ...
TOKYO, May 20, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rigaku Corporation, a global solution partner in X-ray analytical devices and a Group company of Rigaku Holdings Corporation (headquarters: Akishima, Tokyo; CEO: ...
NAKADOMARI, Aomori Prefecture--Historic paintings on “fusuma” sliding doors that caused a stir here owe their wonderful state of preservation to the efforts of the mother of the current head of the ...
Catalog of an exhibition held at Yamaguchi Kenritsu Bijutsukan, September 16-October 16, 2022, and Nezu Bijutsukan, November 3-December 4, 2022. Summary "The Muromachi period (1336-1573) was the point ...
A breath of spring tells of the approach of planting time, and the winds of early summer warn of the need to put props in the fields against the coming of typhoon season. The sun slowly tanning the ...
The ear-splitting cry of a black-tailed gull pierces the sound of waves crashing against a breakwater. Out of the corner of one’s eye, one sees a jet fighter rocketing skyward. These two flying ...
The canvas of the fusuma (the sliding door part of the fittings) was made to be replaceable by the resident, in the same manner as the original fusuma. For example, a sliding door of Shikunshien (an ...