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Fumiki Taguchi’s silver jewelry sparkles brilliantly; viewed up close, it reveals thousands of impressions left by the tagane, each one...
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Last April, I met Aya Iwata at her studio in Tokyo. For nearly thirty years, she has been developing her...
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The young artist Manami Aoki highlights the fragility and poetry of hinoki, which, under repeated hammer blows, separates into supple...
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Fragments of antique kimonos, enamel, coral, pearls… To reveal the singularity of each material, Mariko Sumioka conceives jewelry as miniature...
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Kimiaki Kageyama’s light-filled studio, adjoining his home, struck me with its remarkable density. Photographs, objects, books, tools and, above all,...
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A virtuoso of Glyptic art, Shinji Nakaba turns the technique toward an unlikely material, transforming discarded household plastics into something...
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Japan played a pivotal role in the development of cultured pearls. The exhibition "Japan, Stillness and Substance" situates Takashi Kojima...
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From 1 to 6 October, I will have the pleasure of presenting my exhibition Japan - Sillness and Substance (Japon,...
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How can we ever claim to really penetrate the Japanese outlook on life? All the same, my meeting with jewelry...