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December 2, 2017December 2, 2017 leejayuk

Yukio Mishima and the spirit of a genius based on the soul of history: The last great Japanese writer

December 1, 2017 leejayuk

Emperor Akihito of Japan to finally step down on April 30, 2019

November 23, 2017 leejayuk

Japan Artist inspired by Alfred Sisley: Tranquility through Japanese eyes and cultural warning

November 20, 2017 leejayuk

Sugawara Mitsushige and Bodhisattva Kannon: Buddhism, Japanese Culture, and the Middle Kingdom

November 19, 2017 leejayuk

Hakone Tourism: Buddhism, Shintoism, Hakone Jinja, Yamabushi, and the historical Treasure Museum

November 16, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese Art: Bridge in the Rain by Van Gogh based on the Altered Reality of Hiroshige

November 11, 2017 leejayuk

Timeless Japanese Animation Classic: Princess Mononoke

October 26, 2017October 20, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese Artist inspired by L.S. Lowry: Japanese context of Northern England

October 11, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese Female Literature: Trials and Tribulations of Michitsuna no Haha 935-995

October 8, 2017 leejayuk

Buddhist Art, Sesshū Tōyō, and entrapment of time: Is Huike paying respect to Bodhidharma?

October 2, 2017 leejayuk

Contemporary Japanese Artist inspired by the Kano School: Shinto Priest and Adorable Landscape

September 28, 2017 leejayuk

Art of Sengai Gibon and Rinzai Buddhism: Buddhist Contemplation and Artistic Outreach

September 12, 2017 leejayuk

IVF accounts for roughly 5 percent of all births in Japan: Room for Improvement

September 1, 2017February 14, 2019 leejayuk

Contemporary Japanese Artist and L.S. Lowry: Distance, Light, and Ideas

August 27, 2017 leejayuk

Zen Buddhism and Japanese Art: the Inspirational Life of Hakuin Ekaku

August 23, 2017 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Eishōsai Chōki: Ladies of Beauty in Sublime Simplicity

August 20, 2017 leejayuk

Japan Art and Shini-e: Death Prints Commemorating Artists, Kabuki Actors, and Musicians

July 30, 2017 leejayuk

Twelfth Century Japanese Art of Tokiwa Mitsunaga: A Clouded Sky

July 10, 2017 leejayuk

Ukiyo-e Art of the Meiji Era is Undervalued

June 26, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese Art and Kume Keiichirō: The son of the esteemed historian Kume Kunitake

June 15, 2017 leejayuk

Buddhism, Japanese Art, and the Middle Kingdom (China): Rich Legacy of Tensho Shubun

June 6, 2017 leejayuk

Kobayashi Kiyochika the Japanese Meiji Artist: Personal Tragedy and Early Life

June 2, 2017 leejayuk

Soga Shōhaku (1730-1781) and Japanese Art: Intriguing Approach to Artistic Convention

May 30, 2017 leejayuk

Contemporary Japanese Artist and Shintoism: Kano School and Independent Spirit of Sawako Utsumi

April 26, 2017 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Adorable Art of Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850)

April 24, 2017 leejayuk

Japan Art and Watanabe Kazan: Artist, Ideals of Confucianism, the State Apparatus, and Seppuku

April 21, 2017 leejayuk

Tanomura Chikuden and Art of Japan: Bunjin-ga, China, and Confucianism

April 19, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese Poetry and Abe no Nakamaro (698-770): Tang Dynasty of the Middle Kingdom

April 15, 2017August 2, 2017 leejayuk

Contemporary Japanese Artist: The Fading Spirit of Kano Chikanobu Awakened by Shintoism

April 13, 2017February 1, 2018 leejayuk

Kaita Murayama and Japanese Art: A flower cut down before blooming

April 10, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese Poetry of Kakinomoto no Hitomaro: Impact of the Asuka Period

April 6, 2017March 8, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese Art and Kanae Yamamoto (Part Two): Impact of Europe and Socialism

April 4, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese Art and Kanae Yamamoto (Part One): Difficult Early Years

April 2, 2017 leejayuk

Katsukawa Shunshō and Japanese Art (1726-1793): Major Influence in the Edo Period

March 27, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese Buddhist Poet Saigyō (1118-1190): Nature, Shintoism, and the Light of the Buddha

March 23, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese Artist and Landscapes of Manchester: Blackley Forest, Heaton Park, and River Irk

March 19, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese Buddhist Poetry by Jakushitsu (1290-1367): Why pursue words, when one truly seeks silence?

March 11, 2017March 11, 2017 leejayuk

High Peak Art by Japan Artist: Castleton and other Villages of the Peak District

March 9, 2017 leejayuk

Legendary Japanese Female Warrior: Tomoe Gozen and the Female Samurai Class

March 7, 2017 leejayuk

Japan Tourism and Stunning Wakayama: Ticking Clock of Buddhism in Koyasan and Negoro-Ji

March 3, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese Poetry and Shintoism: Arakida Moritake (1473-1549)

February 25, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese Art and Esaias Van De Velde: Christian Churches and Dutch Villages Through Japanese Eyes

January 29, 2017 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Western Encroachment: Utagawa Sadahide (Gountei Sadahide) and Yokohama-e

December 13, 2016December 6, 2017 leejayuk

Japan Artist and Nichiren the Buddhist Preacher: Trilogy of Exile in the Snow on Sado Island

December 6, 2016 leejayuk

Seventh and Early Eighth Century Japanese Poetry by Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

November 29, 2016May 6, 2017 leejayuk

Diverse Art by the Japanese Artist Shiba Kōkan (1747-1818): Dutch Art and European Studies

November 21, 2016 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Tensho Shubun: Zen Buddhist Priest and High Culture of China

November 19, 2016June 14, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese Poems by Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902): The Shadow of Tuberculosis

November 13, 2016 leejayuk

Art, Culture, and Shintoism in Japan: Faith in the Shadow of Modernity

November 8, 2016 leejayuk

Japanese Art and Poetry: Yosa Buson and Impact of China

November 7, 2016April 14, 2017 leejayuk

Yukio Mishima: The Last Great Japanese Author and Ultimate Ubermensch

November 6, 2016November 6, 2016 leejayuk

Japanese Zen Buddhist Poet of Rinzai School: Sesson Yūbai (1290-1346) and China

November 3, 2016 leejayuk

Poetry of Eighth Century Japan by Yamabe no Akahito

November 1, 2016March 31, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese Artist and Nichiren Buddhism: Exile in the Snow on Sado Island

October 25, 2016 leejayuk

Japanese Green Tea Ceremony and High Culture: Culture, History, and Formal Settings

October 20, 2016 leejayuk

Japan Artist and English Landscapes: Laburnum Tree, Brailsford Church, and Shinto Themes

October 15, 2016 leejayuk

Buddhism and Japanese Calligrapher Sugawara Mitsushige: Bodhisattva Kannon

October 14, 2016 leejayuk

Japanese Animation and Timeless Classic: Princess Mononoke

October 12, 2016 leejayuk

Murasaki Shikibu and Art: The Tale of Genji by the Most Famous Japanese Lady in History

October 12, 2016October 12, 2016 leejayuk

Japanese Artist of the Ninth Century: Kose Kanaoka and the Respectful Mirage

October 10, 2016 leejayuk

Japanese Art and Tanomura Chikuden (1777-1835): Study of Confucius and Art

October 6, 2016February 17, 2017 leejayuk

Japan and the Spirituality of Mountain Art: Buddhism, Shintoism, and Reflections

October 3, 2016October 3, 2016 leejayuk

Ghost in the Shell, from Classic Japanese Animation to a de-Japanized American Version

September 22, 2016 leejayuk

Modern Japanese Artist and Buddhism: Nichiren and Isolation of Exile on Sado Island

September 11, 2016 leejayuk

Photos of non-Modernity in Japan during the Meiji and Taisho Periods

September 9, 2016February 19, 2019 leejayuk

Japan Art and Paris: Yuzo Saeki, A Love of France that Evaded Him and Frailty of Life

August 29, 2016 leejayuk

Mavis the Magic Dog: Sakura the Squirrel and the Terrible Storm (Magic, Nature, and Shinto)

August 26, 2016August 26, 2016 leejayuk

Revolutionary Period in Japan and the Artist Sadahide

August 21, 2016 leejayuk

Utagawa Kuniyoshi and Adorable Japanese Landscapes: Natural Flow of Nature

August 18, 2016August 21, 2016 leejayuk

Art Book of Japan and European Art: Buddhism, Churches, Derbyshire, Dutch Art, Shinto, and Ukiyo-e

August 15, 2016 leejayuk

Japanese Art and Eishōsai Chōki

August 9, 2016 leejayuk

Emperor Akihito of Japan needs Similar Dignity in Possible Abdication

August 5, 2016August 5, 2016 leejayuk

Ando Hiroshige: Landscapes, Sexuality, to Buddhist Monk

August 3, 2016August 3, 2016 leejayuk

Japanese Art and a Spice of Ukiyo-e: Mountains in Blue and the Kami of Shinto

August 3, 2016 leejayuk

Claude Monet and Impact of Japanese Art: Impressionism and Ukiyo-e

August 2, 2016August 2, 2016 leejayuk

Tosa School and Japanese Art: Buddhism, Dynamics of Power and Tosa Mitsunobu

July 31, 2016July 31, 2016 leejayuk

Japanese Art and Saburosuke Okada: Historical Change and Power of Paris

July 29, 2016 leejayuk

Japanese Female Warrior and Art: Tomoe Gozen and the Onna-Bugeisha

July 27, 2016 leejayuk

Buddhist Warrior Monk Benkei (1155-1189) in Japanese Art: Buddhism to Yamabushi

July 24, 2016 leejayuk

Japanese Art and Buddhism: Sengai Gibon, Individualism, and Rinzai Buddhism

July 21, 2016 leejayuk

Nichiren in Japanese Art: Exile to Sado Island of Buddhist Holy Man in Art

July 19, 2016July 14, 2017 leejayuk

Modern Japanese Artist and Utrillo: Seasonal Change of Notre-Dame de Clignantcourt

July 16, 2016 leejayuk

Japanese Buddhism, Kukai (774-835), and Koyasan: A lone cloud has no place to settle

July 13, 2016 leejayuk

Japan Artist, Christian Church in Heptonstall and Clarity to Blurred Lines: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Shinto

July 6, 2016 leejayuk

Middle Kingdom (China) and Artistic Impact on Japan: Xia Gui and Ma Yuan

July 4, 2016 leejayuk

British and Japanese Art: Northern Cities to Artist from Sendai

June 26, 2016June 26, 2016 leejayuk

Japan Art and the Spirit Of Shinto: Ukiyo-e in the Light of Nature and Shintoism

June 13, 2016June 13, 2016 leejayuk

Japanese Art: Spirit Of Shinto and Ukiyo-e in the Light Of Nature

June 6, 2016 leejayuk

Shintoism and Japanese Folklore: Art, Ghost Stories and the Richness of Culture

May 17, 2016 leejayuk

Light of Sendai to Northern English Reality: L.S. Lowry and Sawako Utsumi

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