"Banyan Tree Higashiyama Kyoto is more than just a hotel — it’s a gateway to experiencing the heart and soul of Kyoto," Philip Lim, a senior vice president with Banyan Tree, told Travel + Leisure.

Kaii Higashiyama's best-known works are often called 'quintessentially Japanese landscapes,' but they were also examples of the artist's conservative dialogue with European and American abstraction.

Kaii Higashiyama was a Japanese artist known for his nihonga style paintings that often depicted nature. View Kaii Higashiyama’s artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an in-depth ...

Higashiyama, Kaii 1908-1999 Higashiyama, Sumi Subject Higashiyama, Kaii 1908-1999 Contents 880-07 Dai 1-kan. Utsukushii Nihon e no tabi -- dai 2-kan. Mori to mizuumi no kuni e no tabi -- dai 3-kan.

Explore old world charm at Higashiyama, Kyoto has a lot of temples and shrines and while there is no doubt that exploring so many of them is like embarking on a beautiful architectural whirlwind ...

For Kaii Higashiyama (1908-1999), for example, blue is often used, while the work of Genso Okuda (1912-2003) predominantly features red. Nihonga pigments were traditionally derived from natural ...

Higashiyama explains: “The subject lifts upward his forward outstretched arms with his eyes open. He holds that pose for a short while and then returns his arms to the horizontal position.