The entrance to Washington Park off SW Tichner Dr. / West Burnside is closed due to a landslide. Please use SW Vista Ave. to SW Park Place. We will honor your ticket despite potential delays.
Gion Matsuri is a festival for the people, by the people. Named after Yasaka Shrine (known locally as Gion-sha) in the Gion District of Kyoto, it is said to be the oldest continuous urban festival in the world and one of the largest and most elaborate in Japan. Gion Matsuri is more than a thousand …
This week, we’re sharing the work of Hirotsugu Ogawa, a fourth generation successor to the Choraku kiln established by his great grandfather in 1903 who carries on the making of tea bowls in the classic Raku style.
This week, we’re featuring the work of Shuji Nakagawa who is reinventing his traditional craft to serve modern purposes.
The first Art in the Garden exhibition of the year is called Hanakago: The Art of Bamboo and Flowers, featuring the fine Japanese bamboo basketry collection of Portland resident Peter Shinbach.
Looking ahead to the Art in the Garden exhibitions for this Year of Kyoto, we showcase the works of fine artisans, ikebana masters, and festival traditions that have made the city famous as the center of tradition, continuity, and innovation in Japan. Here is an overview of some of the experiences we have in store for you.
Noh craftsman, Bidou Yamaguchi has taken the centuries old Noh mask tradition and turned it into innovation, adding his own style to the art of mask-making.
For our third exhibition of this year’s Art in the Garden series, the Portland Japanese Garden is thrilled to feature the Noh masks of Ohtsuki Kokun.
Kabuki: A Revolution in Color and Design brought an exhilarating, new direction to the Art in the Garden series when the Garden explored Japan’s most flamboyant and fanciful performance art through elaborate costumes on loan from Shochiku Costume Co. Ltd. in Tokyo.
In celebration of the Grand Opening of the Cultural Village in April 2017, Art in the Garden is honored to present a glimpse into the creative life and work of former Prime Minister Hosokawa Morihiro, who left a career in politics behind in 1998 and retired at the age of 60 to Yugawara, a small coastal town in Kanagawa southwest of Tokyo.