Art & Design
![The Art of Emptiness](https://www.jpicinternational.com/upload/images/The%20Art%20of%20Emptiness%20%28trim%29.jpg)
The Art of Emptiness
For several hundred years, Japanese porcelain has been highly acclaimed and sought after around the...
![The Book of Urushi](https://www.jpicinternational.com/upload/images/The%20Book%20of%20Urushi.jpg)
The Book of Urushi
Urushi, Japanese lacquerware, is perhaps the oldest and most sublime of all the Japanese arts and...
![Designing Japan](https://www.jpicinternational.com/upload/images/Designing%20Japan-thumb-1594x2300-3421.jpg)
Designing Japan
Designing Japan: A Future Built on Aesthetics presents renowned designer Kenya Hara’s vision of how...
![Japanese Art in Perspective](https://www.jpicinternational.com/upload/images/Japan%20Art%20in%20Perspective.jpg)
Japanese Art in Perspective
How do Japanese and Western aesthetics differ? In this comparative cultural study, Takashina Shūji,...
![The Japanese Sense of Beauty](https://www.jpicinternational.com/upload/images/The%20Japanese%20Sense%20of%20Beauty-thumb-1784x2551-3420.jpg)
The Japanese Sense of Beauty
What makes Japanese art unique? In The Japanese Sense of Beauty, art critic and historian Takashina...
![The Kidai Shōran Scroll](https://www.jpicinternational.com/upload/images/The%20Kidai%20Shoran%20Scroll.jpg)
The Kidai Shōran Scroll
The Kidai Shōran is a magnificent painted Japanese scroll, an artistic rendering of one of the most...
![Mixing Work with Pleasure](https://www.jpicinternational.com/upload/images/Mixing%20Work%20with%20Pleasure-thumb-1748x2598-3418.jpg)
Mixing Work with Pleasure
Toshio Suzuki has devoted himself to Studio Ghibli for some thirty years, producing such...
![The Music of Color](https://www.jpicinternational.com/upload/images/The%20Music%20of%20Color%20%28Adam%20crop%29.jpg)
The Music of Color
“I have received color without limit from the natural world in the years since I entered the dyer’s...
![Soetsu Yanagi](https://www.jpicinternational.com/upload/images/Soetsu%20Yanagi_S%2020170208-thumb-924x1378-3041.jpg)
Soetsu Yanagi
● Sixteen incisive essays by Soetsu Yanagi, founder of the Japanese folk craft movement and author...
![The World of Ito Jakuchu](https://www.jpicinternational.com/upload/images/The%20World%20of%20Ito%20Jakuchu%20%28trimmed%29.jpg)
The World of Ito Jakuchu
In 1760, when the Japanese painter Ito Jakuchu was working on his magnum opus, Plants and Animals...