This year’s Met Gala theme — Rei Kawakubo and Comme des Garçons — got us thinking: There’s such great Japanese-made stuff worth knowing about (much of it that we’ve even written about before), so why ...
The Japanese have a name for the art of finding beauty in objects that are imperfect, rustic or primitive. They call it wabi sabi. Because the roots of wabi sabi stem from Zen Buddhism, there is an ...
Zaku Teapot will begin on May 12, 2021, at 1 PM Japan Time. The metal teapot, which resembles the head of a Zaku mobile suit, will be sold via Premium Bandai. It will cost ¥27,500 or roughly $252. The ...