TOKYO -- Three artifacts described as "dogu" earthenware figurines from Japan's ancient Jomon period were removed from the ...

In a world obsessed with aesthetic perfection, wabi-sabi is an ancient Japanese philosophy that celebrates the beauty of the passage of time. This age-old approach is enjoying a revival in Western ...

The technique is the ancient art of Japanese Kintsugi ... which translates more or less as ‘joining with gold’, broken pottery is repaired with a seam of lacquer and precious metal.

Studies of ancient Jomon sites in separate areas of Japan show that lifestyles of the ... uniformly similar across the country. The Jomon Pottery Culture Period flourished from around 14500 ...