Exhibitions

Much attention is paid in Japanese culture to aesthetic aspects of the weather, which is not simply accepted as a phenomenon of nature that influences human behaviour.

The print collection of Michael Rukin of Boston, witch includes some 250 prints I various techniques, was donated to the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art at the end of 2012.

"The people of the Isle of Zipangu (Japan) have great quantities of gold. The king's palace is of pure gold, and the floors are of gold two fingers thick." .

The traditional cultural heroes of Japan were role-models of behavior and basis of universal concept.

Originally, the netsuke was a carved and embellished clothing accessory that was tied with a cord to other items known as sagemono (hanging things).

Calligraphy and kokuji (symbols carved on wooden boards) are crafts that originated in China and were brought to Korea and Japan.

The exhibition "Double Vision" consists of two parts - "imaginary" and "real" - providing a view of opposing facets of contemporary Japanese society through the eyes of 30 artists of different generations.

Philip and Tomoko Rosenfeld have been collecting Japanese bamboo baskets for more than a decade. Their venture began with a casual visit to an antique shop in Japan.

The fan is an important accessory in the Japanese culture.

Mikio Toki, who was born in 1950, studied graphic design at the University of Design in Tokyo. He learned the art of the kite from the artist Katsuhisa Ota (1902-1989), and he has been making traditional Edo kites since 1970.