The women first met in 2015 at the World Heritage site Nikko, in Tochigi Prefecture, where they were helping to restore 7.5-meter-tall Buddha statues at Nikko Rinnoji Temple. After the two-year ...

KURASHIKI, Okayama Prefecture--She doesn’t practice Buddhism and once had a strong aversion to painting, but artist Nishiyuki has found a way to transform temple visitors into sacred figures of ...

in a pose evoking the Buddha, this porcelain version of America’s divisive leader-in-waiting is the work of designer and sculptor Hong Jinshi. The Zen-like figures – which Hong sells for ...