Avoid the tall trees of Japan's most popular spot, Arashiyama Bamboo Grove, and opt for lesser-known forest retreats in Kyoto. Incorporating a stroll along bamboo groves into a wider Kyoto ...

For the first time in nearly 120 years, "hachiku" bamboo is flowering all across Japan. The hachiku bamboo plant expands by sending out underground stems, which can grow at a rate of about 2 ...

more commonly known as Hakone grass or Japanese forest grass, is native to the mountainous regions of Japan. The bamboo-like stems grow in elegant cascades that dance in the breeze and change ...

featuring traditional works of art from China and Japan, has been organized to accompany and provide some cultural context for Asia Society’s exhibition of Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest, the ...

and sauntered through a bamboo forest. The kids made it clear that Japan lights up all five of your senses — no matter what age you are. We all enjoyed finding a beach full of smooth pottery ...

Designed by renowned Japanese architect, Kengo Kuma, the Banyan Tree Higashiyama Kyoto Hotel is thoughtfully designed as a sanctuary situated at the boundary between the historic city and the bamboo ...

Among Japan's many "sansai" seasonal edible vegetables that grow in the wild, bamboo shoots are the most ... called Akita Mori no Takuhaibin (Akita forest home delivery service).

in Japan. This expression is also used as “kigo,” or a seasonal phrase for haiku poetry. Conversely, spring is “take no aki” (autumn of bamboos). Bamboo leaves turn yellow in this season ...

Other trees like bamboo ... developed by renowned Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki in the 1970s, is a revolutionary method for creating dense forests in limited spaces. Often referred to as ...

Shôno Shôunsai (1904-1974), bamboo basket maker and Living National Treasure The history of bamboo baskets in Japan begins with their use as utilitarian objects during the Jômon period (10,000-300 B.C ...