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Author: RoYuMi
Japan, a cold country to live
I haven’t lived in Japan continuously for 44 years, I discovered something this winter. When I was single, fortunately I didn’t have to cook food at home, my mother didn’t ask me to work so hard even in winter. For the first time in my life, my fingers got “simoyake” which means “frostbite”. After several… Read more
Utagawa Hiroshige, master of landscape prints
Utagawa Hiroshige secured his place on the podium of printmaking masters with his “Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido” series created around 1833 , which brought him sudden and immediate fame. In these prints, the artist depicts the 53 stations along the route from Edo to Kyoto . This work is often compared to Katsushika Hokusai… Read more
The Miniature Life of Tanaka Tatsuya
With three million followers on Instagram, chances are you’re already familiar with Tanaka Tatsuya ‘s work. Since April 2011, Tanaka Tatsuya has been posting miniature life scenes daily. His work has a twist that makes it particularly unique in the world: with the use of everyday objects he creates very creative miniatures! Broccolis are transformed… Read more
Morioka Shoten: The Japanese Bookstore that only sells one book
If you had a bookstore that only sold one book, which one would you sell? A difficult question for those who like to read, however for the founder of this bookstore, Yoshiyuki Morioka, it is not a problem! Located in the Ginza neighborhood in Tokyo, Morioka Shoten is a unique bookstore since it sells one… Read more
Why is Tokyo so different from other cities in Japan?
Many incredible images of Japan tend to be more linked to the rarities that are seen in Tokyo , than to the reality that the vast majority of us live in Japan . How much does Tokyo represent Japan? Is Tokyo an anomaly of Japan? We tell you in the next video! Read more
Japan, Architecture and Pandemic: Kengo Kuma
If you ever have the opportunity to visit Kyoto, we recommend visiting the Ace Hotel Kyoto located in Shinpuhkan . The latter was built from an old telephone company, and was redesigned by the renowned architect Kengo Kuma , who turned it into a shopping center with a hotel and theater included. And although in… Read more
Miniature Diorama So Real It Tricks Twitter
MAJIRI ( @Cityscape_Std ) from Cityscape Studio makes diorama miniatures of urban environments. The quality of his work has recently been recognized since he started posting photos of his works on Twitter. Even though you can understand that it is a miniature made by hand, it manages to confuse our perception and surprise us with… Read more
RONIN – The freelancers SAMURAI of JAPAN
The Ronin could be said that they were the freelancer samurai of Japan from the Edo period but how similar were they to the samurai or what was their relationship with them? We tell you in this video! We hope you enjoy it! Read more
Year of the Tiger, 24 years away
This year that begins, 2022, corresponds to the year of the tiger according to the Japanese zodiac (basically the same as the Chinese zodiac), and I could not ignore the fact that 24 years ago, between 1997 and 1998, we began a year of the tiger that in many senses changed my life. On that… Read more
How and Why Japan Became a World Power
There is the idea that Japan grew rapidly to be a power after the second world war, as something unexpected, surprising. But the reality is that Japan’s most recent growth was a slow, calculated growth of at least 90 years since the Meiji Period. But how was it then that the growth and industrialization of… Read more