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January 2, 2019 leejayuk

Japan poetry and the female poet Komachi: Heartfelt passion from the distant past

December 13, 2018 leejayuk

Kano Sanraku (1559-1635) and art of Japan: The world of power concentration

December 9, 2018 leejayuk

Poetry of Japan and Arakida Moritake (1473-1549): Ambiance of Shintoism and Iio Sogi

November 5, 2018 leejayuk

Contemporary Japanese artist and L. S. Lowry in Full Bloom by Sawako Utsumi

November 2, 2018November 2, 2018 leejayuk

Buddhist monk Jien and a window into old Japan (1155-1225): Poetry and history

October 31, 2018October 31, 2018 leejayuk

The poetry of old Japan: Yamabe no Akahito and the devoutly Buddhist Emperor Shōmu

October 24, 2018 leejayuk

Buddhist art and the Japanese priest Mokuan Reien: The Middle Kingdom and Mu Qi

September 18, 2018September 18, 2018 leejayuk

Australia: The Japanese Film Festival Unveils 2018 Program

August 24, 2018 leejayuk

Kamakura and the historic Shokozan Tokei-ji Buddhist Temple: Protector of women

July 4, 2018July 4, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese Buddhist poetry of the fourteenth century: Jakushitsu Genkō (1290-1367)

June 26, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese artist illuminates a classic Dutch art piece by Hendrick Avercamp

June 20, 2018June 20, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese artist touch to Esaias van de Velde: Light of Japan on Dutch art of yesteryear

June 14, 2018September 29, 2018 leejayuk

Japan art and Kanzan Shimomura: Famous son of Wakayama and his early artistic life in Tokyo

June 13, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese art and Takeshiro Kanokogi: Influence of Jean-Paul Laurens and Emile-Rene Menard

June 12, 2018 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Matsumura Goshun: Impact of high culture, Yosa Buson, and the shadow of death

June 10, 2018 leejayuk

Japan poetry and Tendai Buddhism: The historian and poetic Buddhist monk Jien (1155-1225)

April 23, 2018 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Nishikawa Sukenobu: From the Empress to Prostitutes

April 18, 2018 leejayuk

Japan art and the paths of Shintoism and Buddhism: Holy men in the snow without Abraham

April 6, 2018 leejayuk

International animation fans in mourning over the death of Isao Takahata: Grave of the Fireflies

April 5, 2018 leejayuk

Buddhist art from China and Japan: Kaihō Yūshō (1533-1615) and the shadow of Liang K’ai (1140-1210)

March 31, 2018 leejayuk

Confucianism and the piety of the Japanese artist Watanabe Kazan (1793-1841)

March 28, 2018 leejayuk

Ninth Century Japanese Art: Kose Kanaoka and the Cultural Richness of the Middle Kingdom

March 12, 2018 leejayuk

Japan poetry and impact of the Middle Kingdom: Abe no Nakamaro (698-770)

February 25, 2018 leejayuk

Great 2018 Winter Olympics for Japan: Female Speed Skaters led the way

February 23, 2018 leejayuk

Japan art and the last Ukiyo-e knell of the Meiji Era: Western artists inspired by Japan

February 19, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese Art and Kano Michinobu (1730-1790)

February 18, 2018 leejayuk

Japan is having a great 2018 Winter Olympics: Kodaira and Hanyu win respective Gold Medals

February 16, 2018September 24, 2018 leejayuk

Kano Eitoku (1543-1590) and richness of Japanese art despite the warring times

February 5, 2018 leejayuk

Zen Buddhist priest Mokuan Reien and Japanese Art: Fourteenth century China

January 24, 2018 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Kaihō Yūshō (1533-1615): Buddhism and high culture

January 19, 2018 leejayuk

Japanese Art and Kano Sanraku (1559-1635): Centralization and continuity

January 12, 2018 leejayuk

Chinese Artist Shen Quan (Nanpin) and the window of Nagasaki in Japan (1731-1733)

December 27, 2017 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Soga Shōhaku (1730-1781): Deep admiration of the Muromachi Period (1336-1573)

December 24, 2017 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Kose Kanaoka: Illusive Spirit of a Ninth Century Artist and the Middle Kingdom

December 19, 2017 leejayuk

Yosa Buson and Japanese Poetry: In the footsteps of Matsuo Bashō

December 17, 2017 leejayuk

Famous Japanese Buddhist Warrior of the Twelfth Century and Japanese Art: Rich Legacy of Benkei

December 14, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese Landscapes by Kuniyoshi

December 9, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese Art and the two paths of Buddhism and Shintoism: Faith in the Snow without Abraham

December 3, 2017 leejayuk

Pierre Bonnard, Japanese Art, and his early artistic life: le Nabi très Japonard

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

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

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 24, 2017September 24, 2017 leejayuk

Poetry – The kingfisher dies

September 16, 2017 leejayuk

Jakushitsu Genkō (1290-1367) and Buddhist Poetry in old Japan

September 12, 2017 leejayuk

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

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

July 30, 2017 leejayuk

Twelfth Century Japanese Art of Tokiwa Mitsunaga: A Clouded Sky

July 19, 2017 leejayuk

Japanese Art and Depicting Kabuki: Two Contrasting Styles

July 18, 2017 leejayuk

3.5 Million Japanese Children face Poverty: Japan Announces $1 Billion for International Children

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

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 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

October 30, 2016 leejayuk

Karoshi and Dying from Overwork in Japan: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

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

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