Tokyo: Traditional Japanese craft is known for its unique aesthetics and high artisanship that have been inherited through the ages, be it glassware drawn with golden fish patterns, hand-carved wooden ...

Women sit quietly as they painstakingly stitch patterns on balls the size of oranges. At the centre of the circle is Eiko Araki, a master of the traditional Japanese craft of Sanuki kagari temari.

"When I'm making a temari ball, I sometimes feel my late grandmother's presence," says Sydney-based Chihiro Kownacki who teaches the craft. Temari balls are a traditional Japanese craft and date back ...

THINK of a Japanese beer: Kirin, Sapporo, Asahi. All mass-produced lagers. But isn’t there something strange about that? The Japanese are renowned for their devotion to craftsmanship and unique ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Tsubame-Sanjo on the west coast of Japan was, like Budapest, two towns flanking a waterway that through unification ...

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