Sake, the drink of choice for the nobility in “The Tale of Genji” — Japan's most celebrated work of literature — has been ...

The show at the British Library is entitled A Silk Road Oasis: Life in Ancient Dunhuang and focuses on the extraordinary ... It guides us all the way from Japan and Korea to East Anglia and even ...

Each section presents the historical culture and dance characteristics of its time, using vivid displays of ancient musical and dance figurines, instruments, literature, and dance videos to allow ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other ...

This effectively means variations in modern day Japanese genetic patterns can be explained by the historical influence of ancient Jomon hunter-gatherers and two continental groups from Northeast ...

The literature prize has long faced criticism that it is too focused on European and North American writers of style-heavy, story-light prose. It has also been male-dominated — Han is only the ...

The Auxikko pattern was coined from taking inspiration from ancient Japanese Kikkō (hexagonal plates built into Samurai body armor) and auxetics, which are materials engineered to grow strong ...

Ancient Greek and Latin literature (covering a period from approximately 800 BC to 500 AD) is in many ways the basis of our own culture and our own way of thinking; numerous literary texts of ...

Author Anthony Horowitz introduces English Literature and Language clips from the BBC archive featuring famous faces including Stephen Fry, Kate Humble and Griff Rhys Jones. Creativity is everywhere.