Hand-carved wooden birds made by Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. ... Roy Takahashi, who'd been an art student prior to the war, offered a bird-carving class in September 1944.

Matazo Kayama was a Japanese artist known for his nihonga style, which often depicted birds and other animals. View Matazo Kayama’s artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an in-depth ...

Kristen Hayashi, the director of collections management and access at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, said the bird pins are “very iconic to the camp experience,” and one ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Birds' Nests in Japanese Houses ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 54 No. 25 (June 1886), p. 393 doi:10.1038 ...

Keiō University Professor Emeritus Watanabe Shigeru and colleagues won the Ig Nobel Prize in psychology in 1995 for showing that birds can distinguish between different styles of paintings. With ...

In Japan, ‘cute’ is a big deal. Their own word for it, kawaii (“ka-why-ee”), is more of an ethos than an adjective. Shops and billboards are filled with big-eyed fluffy figures.

Birds' Nests in Japanese Houses. June 19, 1886. Share on Facebook ...