When Japan opened up to the world in the middle of the 19th century, Western merchant ships were quick to return home with exotic art from the once reclusive nation. The private galleries and ...

One of the objects that catches your eye in “Japanese Bamboo Art: The Abbey Collection,” which just opened at the Metropolitan Museum, is not what you might have expected to see at a show of Japanese ...

With the malleable ability to be dynamic, enchanting, and inexplicably delicate, artwork made with Japanese bamboo is a time-honored practice. A new show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ...

Bamboo is emerging as an ideal material for fashioning objects of art and home decoration. Nearly 230 different types of bamboo are found growing in the Western Ghats and South Indian States. This ...

In the watery villages along the southern part of the Yangtze River, bamboo is a major part of people's daily life. Before Wuzhen, a village in East China's Zhejiang Province, became famous for ...

Japan’s traditional crafts have long been a core of the daily lives of the nation’s people while also bewitching hearts as works of great artistic merit. In the field of bamboo craftwork, Fujinuma ...

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The exhibition "Modern Twist: Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Art" offers an antidote, full of intriguing objects that ask nothing more than to be admired for their beauty and human ingenuity. As an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To balance on a single piece of bamboo on the water requires exceptional balance. So does ballet. Combine these two athletic arts ...

Lui Ming has worked with bamboo since his early teens. Now aged 93, he still uses the natural material and his focus today is on handcrafting steamers used in Cantonese cuisine. As to how many of the ...