Enchanting forest lit by fireflies in Japan

During firefly mating season on Japan’s Kyushu Island,Russian photographer Daniel Kordan captured a mesmerizing series of photographs showing an enchanted bamboo forest full of little stars. Firefly is a type of luminuous beetle that producese ...

Forest Chapel

The Sayama Forest Chapel designed by Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP sits in a forest beyond a nondenominational cemetery, which looks like both a star and two hands pressed together in prayer from an aerial perspective. ...

Fantastic chalk drawing art on chalkboards

Drawing art on chalkboards has been popular in Japanese students in recent years. Japanese company Nichigaku, a manufacturer making blackboard, whiteboard and electronic boards for classrooms, held a Blackboard Art contest and got 50 entries ...

Autumn art

A new trend named “ochiba art” or “fallen leaf art” has become popular in Japan, where people are turning the fallen leaves into impressive pieces of art, they take pictures of the contemporary leaf art ...

Realistic animal sculptures made out of newspaper

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Japanese artist Chie Hitotsuyama uses the waste newspaper to create stunningly realistic animal sculptures from Japanese macaques to lizards, crocodile to rhinoceros, etc. She rolls, twists, and binds pieces of wet newspaper densely by hand, ...

Beautiful season of rain in Japan

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Japanese beautician Hidenobu Suzuki is also a photographer as well, who photographed Japan’s landscape during the season of rain that looks like stunning paintings. “My photographs are like Japanese paintings, ” the photographer said, “Japanese ...

Floating bonsai looks like magic

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The Air Bonsai is designed by The Hoshinchu Team that consists of a porcelain bottom named “energy base” and a floating part “little star,” the magnets installed inside make the “little star” float with the plant ...