Here comes a flying red Chinese phoenix made by bamboo ～♪Taken at where believed to be the Asuka Itabukino-Miya Place. Copyright(C) Miki →Miki’s twitter← (English is OK)   This is JAPAN Style!

Can you guess where this picture was taken? In The Sahara or The Gobi desert? No 😉 This beautiful desert is located in Western Japan’s Tottori prefecture. Actually, it’s not…

Canadian comic storyteller of Rakugo based in Japan, Mr. Sunshine Katsura, performed in 3 places, Vancouver, Burnaby and Richmond between 30th August and 1st September.   (Audiences got together to…

    Asian lacquer table-ware, pottery and porcelain are well-recognised internationally, and I believe some of Japanese ones are also famous as arts.  Of course, if we could own such…

Tadahiro Uesugi is a Japanese illustrator who won the Annie Award in the art category for the 3D stop-motion animated film, “Coraline”, for which he worked as a concept artist….

Today, I would like to introduce an article about a unique Japanese art centre just opened last year in Ishinomaki city, Miyagi Pref.  What makes this art centre unique is…

    A case for iPhone5 with wood inlay craftwork on the polycarbonate jacket using only natural wood. Wood inlay is a craftwork technique of creating patterns and pictures by…

    Handwritten on a signature board with a brush. The meaning of “無病息災(Mubyosokusai)” is to keep being healthy without any disease. This is also the word to pray for…

    The fountain pen “Namiki” decorated with “Makie” “Hagoita” (Toy-“Hagoita”, Japanese traditional badminton-like game) FN-5M-HAG The luxurious fountain pen “Namiki” was made in the year 1930 in co-operation with…

    This is a poster resembling the appearance of Kabuki actor at their stage during the Edo period. Drawn by Toyokuni Utagawa 3rd, an Ukiyoe artist famous for Kabuki…

    Japanese Clear File Folder Set (Female Dharma, Three Lucky Gods’ Sumo Wrestling, Shoki, painted by Kitagawa Utamaro) [Blue] Three Lucky Gods’ Sumo Wrestling: Daikoku and Hotei wrestle with…