For thousands of years, the art of lacquerware has flourished across East Asia, transforming everyday objects into ...

We follow UK-born Suzanne Ross - a lacquerware artisan in Wajima - in her efforts to recover after this January's quake, and meet Chinese Tomoe Setsubai who runs a Japanese confectionery in Yokohama.

With Her Lotus Year, Paul French depicts a glitzy period the future Duchess of Windsor spent in China – but she’s too elusive ...

WAJIMA, Ishikawa Prefecture--The Noto Peninsula earthquake dealt a severe blow to the production of Wajima-nuri traditional lacquerware, which is designated an important intangible cultural heritage.

Nam, which stands in the center of Seoul. In this space, she stores a roomful of various Korean "najeonchilgi" or traditional lacquerware inlaid with mother-of-pearl, ranging from a closet to ...

This time, a tea party under the cherry blossoms with bracken-starch cake on handmade lacquerware. Woodturner Kawakami Ken-ichi is making plates for Hida Shunkei lacquerware Kawakami-san's plates ...

Australian luxury jewelry box label Trove is expanding in the U.S. with its first flagship. The four-year-old brand is ...

Loaded with Chinese silk, porcelain, and lacquerware, the junks visited ports around the Indian Ocean. Here, Arab and African merchants exchanged the spices, ivory, medicines, rare woods ...

WASHINGTON—Stuffed Super Mario toys and Wajima-nuri lacquerware are among the gifts that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida brought to U.S. President Joe Biden for his state visit. On the afternoon ...

From there, wind past the entrance through the arts of Asia, from the elegantly simple furniture of Ming China to the ...

A report from People's Daily: Yunmeng county in central China's Hubei province is leveraging its rich historical and cultural resources to boost the development of cultural tourism. The local ...

Beyond Bloomsbury, is the first major exhibition of Dora Carrington’s (1893-1932) work in almost 30 years, bringing together ...