Defining ‘Japaneseness’ is no easy feat. What is it about Japan’s visual landscape that sets it apart? A closer look at its streets and gardens reveals some clues.

Most of the arts of Japan have a superadded symbolic meaning: for example, flower arrangement, landscape gardening, poetry, and the dance; yet in respect to formal beauty they are complete in ...

A former guesthouse standing on a university campus in the capital's Setagaya Ward blends the traditional architecture of a tea ceremony house with modernist features, adopting a predominantly silver ...