Lotus flowers are deeply steeped in Buddhist traditions, and these beautiful flowers are also often used by Yellow Bitterns. Discover more about this species, which has become increasingly elusive in ...

Ancient lotus flowers are in full bloom in the city of Gyoda, northwest of Tokyo. The ancient lotus of Gyoda was grown from seeds that were excavated in construction work conducted in the city in the ...

At Korakuen Garden in Okayama Prefecture, one of the three great gardens of Japan, two types of lotus are grown. The Oga lotus, named after a botanist from Okayama, began to bloom in early June and ...

She told us that every summer at Sankeien Garden, an early morning lotus-viewing event is held. The next day, we met at 6 a.m., when Sankeien opens their gates during the annual eight-day event. The ...

At exhibitions, ancient ceramics tend not to be the draw card that contemporary photography can be. With this in mind, The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, has combined the two together. The museum ...

Nakamura Kazunobu Design-Works has created an installation art space for Japanese dance. A key tenet of Japanese spatial design is not to design the form itself, but to design the effect brought about ...

The Lotus Flower Tiara, which was made by the House of Garrard in 1923 for Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, was last publicly worn by Kate Middleton at the Diplomatic Corps reception in 2022. "Among ...