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Japanese artist Teppei Takeda uses grand, gestural brush strokes to create abstract portraits of his subjects. Takeda is somewhat of an anomaly. That day came in the summer of 2016 when Tak…
The villagers of Inakadate aren’t the only ones getting creative with their rice. Japanese artist Sayaka Ishizuka is showing new work at Pearl Lam Gallery in Shanghai. “Life Threads” is a w…
the new Hotel Okura’s lobby is a replica of it’s former | all photos by Satoshi NagareWhen Tokyo’s Okura Hotel announced that their main wing would be demolished in 2015 and be rebuilt, there was pub…
Oki Sato and his design firm Nendo have created an immersive installation that spans across nine display areas within The National Gallery of Victoria, in Melbourne. The spaces serve as a frame …
an early morning in Marunouchi outside Tokyo Station (2019)One way to obscure a time period when sculpting the human body is to depict them naked. The Japanese photographer employs this techniqu…
Daisho Suisan is not your ordinary Japanese seafood company. So when, in 2014, the company decided to add tea bags to their line of businesses it probably wasn’t too extraordinary. After nu…
Designer Akira Minagawa, of the faux-Finnish brand minä perhonen, has collaborated with seasoned architect Yoshifumi Nakamura to renovate and transform a Kyoto machiya into a rentable guesthouse…
A watchmaker, a surgeon, a chef and a diorama artist are sitting around together. Each is a master of their trade and together, they’re attempting to create the world’s smallest bento. One …
Mifuneyama Rakuen Park is a sprawling natural sanctuary in Kyushu that was created in 1845. These enormous stones serve as inspiration for digital art collective TeamLab’s latest on-site in…
photo by spoon & tamago (2017)If you’ve ever visited Japan’s magical art island of Naoshima you’ll most certainly have visited one of its most iconic pieces of art: Yayoi Kusama’s yello…
