Tag Archives: Painting

Handsome Actor’s Unique Tweet [Vol.2]

Last month on the JAPAN Style blog, we wrote about an actor’s funny tweets. He asked his fans about a cool car he saw on the street. As clues, he…

Handsome Actor’s Unique Tweet

  There is a Japanese actor called Seiichi Tanabe. He is known as a handsome and cool performer. But the unique or rather funny tweets (@tanabe1969) this good-looking actor recently made…

Ghibli Art Videos Part 1 : Works by Non Japanese Artists

  Studio Ghibli’s animation films are very celebrated here in Japan. I hear that Ghibli has many overseas fans too. The works that are famous in other countries might be…

Naoshi : Japanese “Sunae” Sand Painting Artist

  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…

Picture Book of Craftsmen in Edo Period : Part 2

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…

What is a Pudding Badge?

Let me introduce a blog post from my favorite entertainment blog site as usual. The topic is about ‘puddings’.   Can you guess what they are? They are budges made…

A Great Japanese Man who is Active in Zanzibar, Africa -Tsuyoshi Shimaoka

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…

Catfish-Printing Boom after a Great Earthquake in 1855

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)”…

“Moe” Taxis for Anime/Manga Fans!

The other day, I made a post about this unique taxi service on the JAPAN Style Facebook page. Do you know the Japanese popular manga “Ichigo Mashimaro”? (I didn’t know…

Let’s Draw the Rest of the Picture of a Stamp!

Let me tell you about stamps today. This is a blog post from my favorite entertainment site.   This blogger enjoys adding extra pictures on envelopes when he sends letters….

[Photoblog] Strolling Around Nara City at Night

This is a drawing which was decorated next to a lattice window. Miki fell in love with it.  Copyright(C) Miki   →Miki’s twitter← (English is OK)

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