Japanese Zen gardens or karesansui are famous for their simplicity and serenity. Designed to facilitate meditation and ...

In addition to his well-known passions for hockey, world cinema and cowboy poetry, George Gund III loves Japanese Zen art. Over the past 25 years, the peripatetic arts patron who owns the San Jose ...

Here's the press release: Courtesy The New Orleans Museum of ArtHotei's ink on paper drawing 'Sound of One Hand (late).' The Sound of One Hand: Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin ...

Many of the most accomplished artists of this era—Mokuan, Ryozen, Shubun, Sesshu, Sesson and many others—were Zen monks credited by later generations as the creators of a unique and remarkable legacy ...

A recently acquired work, "Fuka" by Japanese ceramic artist Hattori Makiko, is on view in the exhibition "Monochromes: Japanese Zen Painting and Ceramics" at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

"These paintings and calligraphies were meant to encourage the practice of meditation which is at the center of Zen practice." The senior curator of Japanese art, she has hung 17 works by the best ...

Anyone interested in Japanese culture should stick around the Bay Area for the next few weeks. Dozens of performances, film screenings and exhibitions of Japanese and Japanese-influenced art are ...

DT Suzuki (1870-1966) – Japan's foremost Zen authority – maintained that Japanese gardens express the spirit of Zen. ... It infuses much of Zen art and design. So imperfection, ...

Japan House is holding a series of sumi-e, or black ink painting, courses in November and December. These lessons are taught by Shozo Sato, professor in FAA and founder of Japan House. Black ink ...