I’m going to introduce a unique Japanese artist today. There are various types of paintings such as water color and oil color, but I had not known “sunae,” which…

Continued from the yesterday’s post, “Book of Craftsmen in Edo Period : Part 1 (リンク).” Iroe Shokunin Burui (1784) by Tachibana Minko The following images are from the reprinted version…

A Japanese book published in 1784, Iroe Shokunin Burui depicts craftsmen in the mid Edo period (1603 – 1868). It was written by Tachibana Minko, an ukiyoe-artist from Kyoto in…

  In Japan, we use personal seals instead of signing names. They are called inkan or hanklo in Japanese. Basically, we use seals in the situations where signatures are used…

In Japan, there is a variety of designs for taxi top signs, and each taxi company has a distinctive top light. It’s kind of a familiar sight to us Japanese,…

Yoro Park (Site of Reversible Destiny Yoro Park) in Gifu Prefecture is a vast, 18,000 square-meter modern art piece created by contemporary artist Shusaku Arakawa and poet Madeline Gins. This…

Today, I want to talk about a great Japanese man whom I recently come to know through a Japanese TV show that introduces Japanese people who are active outside of…

On October 2, 1885, a great earthquake struck Edo (modern day Tokyo) and killed over 10,000 people. Since the very next day, multi colored catfish pictures called “namazu-e (catfish printing)”…

  “Origami Furoshiki” is a Japanese wrapping cloth furoshiki with origami feature, created by a Japanese design team COCHAE and a furoshiki manufacture and shop Musubi. A special pattern is…

  A retired Japanese martial artist Genki Sudo cheers Japan up with his artistic music and dance performance. Being a versatile, he is also an essayist and actor. What he…

Let me introduce a blog post from my favorite Japanese entertainment blog as usual.   It is Saitama city, Saitama Prefecture near Tokyo. The blogger saw a cylindrical object made…