Cherry blossoms, or sakura (桜), are one of Japan’s most iconic natural spectacles. Every spring, millions of people travel to ...

Penn Museum has made strides in conserving and renewing the artistic and cultural legacies of two Buddhist murals, both of ...

NARA—The Nara National Museum has unveiled the details of its first full-scale exhibition devoted to national treasures, which will bring together Japan’s finest works of Buddhist art next ...

Carolyn Wargula is Assistant Professor of Art History. She is a specialist of Japanese Buddhist art with a focus on the materiality and intermediality of textiles, the social significances of the body ...

and Japanese devised a system for equating Buddhist deities with Shinto gods. The Heian aristocracy could never have enjoyed lives filled with romance, poetry, art, and religious devotion without ...

The priest conducted a blessing and a purification ritual that included chanting of the Buddhist Heart Sutra ... The post Asian Art Museum rings in Japanese New Year with 108 chimes of 16th ...