The Sapporo Snow Festival is an annual weeklong event that dates to 1950 in Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan's main islands. The festival features around 200 sculptures, according to the Japan ...
They were not individualized portrait sculptures, but standardized representations ... First, an ahu is the flat mound or stone pedestal upon which the moai stand. The ahus are, on average ...
Centuries-old stone Buddha statues and precious jewelries repatriated by the Dutch government to its former colony are on display at Indonesia’s National Museum, providing a glimpse into the country’s ...
The green moss on their faces shone glossy when they were wet in the rain. It sometimes looked as if the stone statues were weeping. “Don’t forget us,” photographer Takayoshi Yasujima ...