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Portland Japanese Garden celebrates Japanese New Year with traditional dance, art

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - The Portland Japanese Garden invited visitors to celebrate O-Shogatsu, the Japanese New Year, with a variety of activities on Sunday. “We forget about everything that happened ...
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Portland Japanese Garden exhibit showcases art of kintsugi, where broken ceramics are reborn, imperfections and all

“Blue Moon,” shown here in a provided photo, is one of Naoko Fukumaru’s kintsugi artworks, based on a Persian earthenware plate from the 10th-12th century CE. Kintsugi is the 500-year-old Japanese art ...

Immerse yourself in gardening at one of these September events in Oregon

Oregon gardeners can choose from dozens of events in September, ranging from composting workshops and bonsai demonstrations ...
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Portland Japanese Garden exhibit celebrates resilience through art of ceramic repair

Kintsugi is the traditional Japanese art of repairing ceramics with lacquer and gold dust. The idea is to highlight the imperfections of a piece and celebrate its new form, rather than hide its chips ...
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Traditional woodblock printmaking exhibit opens at Portland Japanese Garden

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - The Portland Japanese Garden is debuting its first exhibition of the year, featuring artists from Portland, Japan, and across the country. The exhibit, opening this weekend, is ...
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Portland Japanese Garden kicks off the Year of the Snake with O-Shogatsu Festival

As the sounds of taiko and fue — traditional Japanese drums and flute — began to fill the Miller Living Room gathering space at the Portland Japanese Garden on Sunday, a crowd squeezed in tight to ...