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There is a lot to learn from the long, venerable tradition of gardening in Japan, a point made in last week’s Real Dirt, which focused on the history and meaning of Japanese gardens.
6 Gorgeous Japanese Garden Ideas. Published: Jul 25, 2022, 12:00am Debbie Wolfe Contributor. Debbie Wolfe is an author and content creator. In ...
We'll hear about kintsugi, the Japanese art of ceramic repair. ... Fukumaru's first solo kintsugi exhibit in the U.S. will be on display at the Portland Japanese Garden through Jan. 27, 2025.
Kintsugi is the 500-year-old Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with lacquer and gold dust. According to the artist, the crystals are meant to represent “the transformation of trauma into ...
Every Japanese garden needs bamboo and Paula has made a rectangular raised flower garden with these poles around it.
But although Japanese gardens can be practically a form of art, don’t feel daunted to create one yourself. It can in fact be very simple. Japanese gardens are all about imitating and condensing ...
Beginning Saturday, Oct. 1, visitors can enjoy “Garden of Resonance: The Art of Jun Kaneko.” It’s the Portland Japanese Garden’s final exhibition of the year and it runs through Feb. 20, 2023.
The garden is already a popular place to visit in Portland in the fall for its fall foliage. Now, it's opened up an art exhibit from a Japanese artist Skip Navigation ...
In 1963, landscape architect Takuma Tono began designing and landscaping a Japanese garden on the site of the former Washington Park Zoo (now called the Oregon Zoo). Featuring five traditional ...
Wearable art joins the lineup this year at the Portland Japanese Garden's annual exhibition and sale of artwork inspired by Japanese culture. Now in its ninth year, " " brings about three dozen ...