Tokyo >> The Katsura Imperial Villa, or Katsura-Rikyu, located in Kyoto and originally built as a holiday home for the Imperial family, will open its doors to more visitors beginning Nov. 1, the ...

Katsura: Imperial Villa Arata Isozaki et al., edited by Virginia Ponciroli. Phaidon, $79.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-83729-014-7 ...

Katsura Imperial Villa, built on the outskirts of Kyoto during the late-1500s to mid-1600s, has been a touchstone of modern architecture and a pilgrimage site for itinerant architects for years.

A series of 1950s photographs by a Japanese-American artist who had studied and worked in post-World War II Chicago formed the visual component of a landmark publication that highlighted ...

A first time glimpse inside the beautiful Katsura Rikyu Imperial Villa in Kyoto shows why it is renowned for being the quintessence of Japanese aesthetics. Built in the 17th century for an ...

The Katsura Imperial Villa – or perhaps more properly, palace – is a beautiful but modest building of timber, paper and pitched roofs set in a carefully contrived garden of exquisite beauty.

Which is hardly surprising, considering that Carson “Kit” Davidson found his inspiration for his Japanese garden near Hubbardton, Vt., after sneaking into the grounds of the Katsura Imperial ...

Spare-yet-inviting teahouses. Refined paper screens. Elegant bamboo fencing. This is the global ideal of classic Japanese architecture, and it is exemplified in the 17th-century Katsura Imperial ...

Most visitors to Kyoto rarely venture west of the Katsura River. On the face of it, the western tract of the city of Kyoto pales in comparison to Higashiyama in the east, which feels as though it ...