"Taketori Monogatari," or "The Old Bamboo-Hewer's Story," is a fascinating piece of early Japanese literature, well worth the short read. Written in the 10th century, it is one of the earliest known ...

OLD TAPPAN - Two large bamboo forests on Orangeburg Road and Grace Avenue give a bit of an exotic look to Old Tappan, but neighbors have to deal with the plant's intrusive root system encroaching into ...

LOWER MAKEFIELD >> While some property owners consider bamboo a free-flowing beauty, others liken it to an invasive nuisance which must be contained or eradicated. “It’s the 21st Century kudzu,” ...

Nendo is known for using innovative techniques to push materials to their limit. The prolific Japanese studio made design history when it introduced the Cord chair, an ultrathin wooden seat with a ...

It has survived time, storms and wars. But a nearly 200-year-old bamboo pipe organ, said to be the oldest in the world, is facing what may be its biggest threat yet — pop music and dwindling donations ...

Submerging a bamboo slip in distilled water, Fang Beisong, back from an archaeological site, engaged in a set of procedures he's been repeating for 35 years -- brushing the slip, measuring it, ...

Where did we all go wrong with bamboo? Why are we still so terrified to plant it? The answer is that we have been getting all sorts of wrong messages for too many years. Some people say it can be ...

Jennifer Fischer loves the bamboo growing in her yard. And she hates it. The source of this love-hate relationship is a thirty-foot long section of yellow groove bamboo (Phyllostachys aureosulcata) ...

Zhang Yongjie shows woven bamboo hairpins in Dayuan Village of Chenwu Township, Luoning County, central China's Henan Province, Dec. 18, 2019. Zhang Yongjie, a 71-year-old farmer, began to learn ...