A Japanese painting on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art depicts a small family sitting by a flowing river, the remains of their summer supper on a tray nearby.

Though it had success in the press, the house was ultimately sold below cost and no other Japanese houses were ever built in Flatbush -Ditmas Park. In 1997, the New York Times called it “perhaps ...

Brooklyn’s famous Japanese House is more than just a home to current owner Gloria Fischer. Fischer, who bought 131 Buckingham Road with her husband in 1972, sees the one-of-a-kind historic house ...