The tea house at the Portland Japanese Garden is set back modestly in a rustic grove away from the main path that leads visitors through the grander The tea house, though, is meant for quiet ...

Japanese carpenters have been building elaborate shrines by hand for more than a millennium. A new exhibit shows the extraordinary tools and joints behind these extraordinary buildings. Since the 7th ...

Japanese carpenters can tell you a lot about a piece of lumber just by looking at it. They can see which is the root end and which the branch end, whether a log might twist as it ages, and where it is ...

In homage to the Japanese master carpenters – builders of renowned shrines, temples, and teahouses – the exhibition features a full-scale model of the Sa-an Teahouse, originally designed in the late ...

Close-up of full scale model of Engaku-ji Temple Shariden interlocking bracket complex made of Hinoki cypress (Courtesy of Ikaruga-Kōsha) A standard set of tools, installation view at the Takenaka ...

Big Ken Carpenter of La Mesa, Calif., was the only USA rider on the 1993 Japanese Keirin Circuit. He was named the MVP of foreign (non-Japanese) cyclists for starring in seven weeks of parimutuel ...

The Carpenters' Line is the first ever exhibition in the UK to explore Hida's master carpentry and offers visitors the opportunity to view exhibits hard to find outside of Japan, such as a yatai, an ...

Rina Sawayama has a few notes following Sabrina Carpenter’s Saturday Night Live appearance. In an Instagram Story post about the pop star’s performance of “Nobody’s Son,” Sawayama highlighted an ...