Outside, bamboo stems are decorated with hanging chains featuring 108 faceted crystals. The number of crystals represents the 108 Buddhist prayer beads conventionally used to count the number of ...

Normandy High School ELL math teacher Colleen Lisi was one of three teacher chaperones who led 18 Normandy High School and ...

Cotsen was, however, an inveterate collector since childhood. In addition to amassing matchbooks, children's books and folk art, Cotsen assembled the largest collection of Japanese bamboo baskets ...

Forest bathing helped to kintsugi (“golden repair” in Japanese) my heart. Conversations blossomed. It showed me who I was outside of the city and off the insanity of social media.

By 2011, he had hired Japanese garden master Masa Mizuno, who had worked on the Portland Japanese Garden. "Everything should flow, keep you moving," Gray said. That it does — with a few ...

- Samho Bamboo Forest, a premier ecological site in South Korea, draws visitors for its stunning winter rook murmurations. - 2024 Samho Bird Festival will take place November 9–10, featuring ...

There's no place more beautiful in San Francisco than the Japanese Tea Garden in spring. The oldest Japanese garden of its kind in the U.S., it owes its existence to Australian emigrant George ...

As he did not build walls between the beams, or a solid roof, the green of the bamboo grove gleams in from behind. In Gion, I visit the studio of 77-year-old noh mask maker Mitsue Nakamura.

The ancient art of bamboo weaving is under threat in Japan. But new interest from the West has offered a lifeline to this intricate craft.