Thatched living-roof structures absorb rainwater and prevent water run-off, just like those in traditional Japanese gardens. The Village’s layout emulates Japan’s “mozenmachi”—the ...

The film "Village Potters of Onda" explores the traditional pottery-making practices of a rural Japanese village. It highlights the serene lifestyle of the villagers, who engage in farming and ...

The Japanese village ... "Despite economic upheavals, the (village) of Ogimachi (is an) outstanding example of a traditional way of life perfectly adapted to the environment and people's social ...

The real surprise is its new Cultural Village ... of Japanese gardening and a place to explore Japanese culture. It designated an adjacent lot for a new center and hosted an invited competition in ...

Owners Tony and Takuya Yoshida said they want to provide visitors with an authentic and traditional Japanese village square experience. “Our goal is to share everything we love about Japan with ...

Its interiors are the masterpiece of a design team headed by Singapore ... “Yawaragi is the depiction of a traditional Japanese village surrounded by a mountainous terrain,” says Joee Guilas ...

We have often seen new Japanese houses that are...weird, and certainly not "traditional." Sumiou Mizumoto of Alts Design Office shows us a new house that is strongly influenced by traditional ...

In the central Japanese mountain village of Damine ... multilayer robes of a traditional kabuki costume and a weighty wig on his head. I ask him if he's nervous. "A little bit," he says.

As production of Japan’s traditional craft works goes into ... lure foreign buyers by sparking a renewed interest in Japanese art and design in the way that “Japonisme” swept 19th-century ...

In their village ... and leasehold by Japanese immigrants and their American-born children, considered “ineligible aliens.” Nation magazine wrote at the time that our “traditional sense ...

Such is the case with Bestech’s VK-Kuze, a subtle, minimalist spin on traditional Japanese design elements. This knife proves that attention to detail (and the materials and mechanisms to back ...