While the sky over Japan seem clear and sunny in the winter months, the days do in fact grow shorter, the hours of darkness ...

“Yuki-onna” (snow woman, or spirit of snow ... Uemura was renowned for her Japanese-style paintings of elegant Kyoto beauties in soft colors. She rarely painted female figures with subdued ...

6 (UPI) --Snow fell on Japan's iconic Mount Fuji on Wednesday ... inspiring world-renowned literature and art in which its snowcap is an ever-present feature. Historically, the Shinto and Buddhist ...

Last year, snow fell on the mountain on October 5 ... symmetrical slopes has been the subject of numerous forms of art, ...