Enter the shokado bento — a refined, lacquered-box style echoing Kyoto’s ... and vegetables into cartoon figures — food transformed into art, play, and love. IV. The Golden Seams ...

Matsuura, 60, had one of her works, which are a cross between bento box lunches and art, featured in an ad for an art exhibition. She gives one-woman shows at a museum and elsewhere. The “Munch ...