The "Konjaku Monogatari" is one of Japan's oldest collection of stories. Many are supernatural folktales that warn against foxes and demons. All are meant to educate.

Landing in the Japanese capital in 1975 was a bit of a shock. "The crowds, the noise, the visual excess" — everything seemed over-the-top.

A few simple lines on paper — that's all it was. But there was something extremely alluring about it that intrigued Tadao Ando. Then barely out of his teens, Ando might not have fully understood what he was looking at: a sketch of the chapel ...

How a short but fruitful relationship with Natsume Soseki led to the most productive years of Akutagawa's tragic life.

Little information remains about the personal life of the artisan Kojiro Shimizu. His personality and interests, his passions and motivations — all are shrouded in mystery. What we know is that he worked in Kyoto in the late 19th and early 20th century and ...

By 1957, photographer Ken Domon had reached the peak of his creative powers. A picture taken that year in Hiroshima, which he was visiting for the first time to chronicle the lingering effect of the bomb, shows him supremely confident: ram-rod straight on a ...