Ukiyo-e
Ukiyo-e was an Edo-period visual culture of prints and paintings depicting actors, beauties, landscapes, stories, and urban life.
Arts, Literature & Aesthetics
Haiku
Haiku is a short poetic form shaped by seasonal language, juxtaposition, and the history of hokku within linked verse.
Japanese Woodblock Printing
Japanese woodblock printing joins design, carving, registration, pigment, paper, and skilled hand pressure in a long print tradition.
Shakkei
Shakkei is the garden technique of visually incorporating scenery beyond the site through framing, layering, and controlled viewpoints.
Tsukiyama
Tsukiyama are constructed hills that shape topography, views, and miniature landscape in Japanese gardens, often together with ponds.
Roji
A roji is the garden approach to a tea house, organizing the guest’s passage through paths, gates, waiting places, and purification.
Karesansui
Karesansui are dry landscape gardens that use stones, gravel, sand, and limited planting to suggest water and larger scenery.
Japanese Gardens
An introduction to the history, major types, materials, viewing practices, and cultural settings of gardens in Japan.