KYOTO--Two “kakejiku” hanging scrolls made using advanced techniques of Nishijin brocade weaving that depict famed “byobu” folding screen paintings were donated on March 14 to Kenninji ...

Jakuchu and Okyo were leading painters in the Kyoto art world at the time. Folding screens are used to partition and decorate traditional Japanese rooms. The newly discovered pair of screens ...

Researchers have built a mechanical computer inspired by kirigami, the Japanese art of paper-folding and cutting ... rather than as pixels on a screen." Related: 'Quantum-inspired' laser computing ...

Restored by experts at Leeum Museum of Art, 19th-century folding screen to return to Peabody ... collections totaling some 1,800 pieces, said a Japanese antiques dealer donated the hwarot in ...