
Category: Japan lifestyle


Japan at and Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950): Lover of nature

Japan art and Hokusai: Mount Fuji and the working-class

Japan art and Goyō Hashiguchi: Death bed art

Japan art and Yamamura Kōka (Toyonari): Meiji to Showa

Saitama tourism: Heirinji Buddhist Temple in easy reach of Tokyo

Contemporary Japanese artist: Buddhism, Shintoism, and Monks in the snow

Taisho Japan (1912-1926) and Uzaki Sumikazu: Postcards and children

Japanese contemporary artist: Trees, Shinto, and contrast

Japan art and the richness of Shin Hanga

Japan art and the last Meiji ukiyo-e flourish

Japan art and tragic life of a socialist sympathizer: The state apparatus

Japan art by Sakai Hōitsu and Buddhism

Growing poverty in Japan and social divisions: Covid convulsions

Rinpa art in Japan and its link to Nichiren Buddhism

Female warrior in 12th century Japan: Tomoe Gozen and art

Japan tourism and Shintoism: Samukawa Shinto Shrine in Kanagawa

Japan art and Takeshiro Kanokogi: A world turned upside down

Japan art and Shinto: Mountains in blue, Buddhism, and Kami

Tokyo in the snow and the calming influence of Shintoism: A lament!

Japan art: Adorable mixture of trees and the lone Buddhist monk

Japan art and Sakai Dōitsu (1845-1913): Mount Fuji

Japan art, China, and Zen Buddhism: Hakuin Ekaku (1686-1769)

Saitama tourism and Buddhism: Delightful Chichibu

Tokyo artist during the Edo era: From fishmonger to esteemed art

Dutch winter landscapes based on Hendrick Avercamp by Japanese artist

Japan art and Western influence in late Edo and early Meiji

The call of faith in the heart of Tokyo

Japan art and Buddhism – the mirror of life!

Japanese oldest person in the world reaches 119 years of age

Art of Japan: Depictions of women in Edo Period

Japanese art and the majesty of the sky

Tourism in Nagano and Jigokudani Monkey Park

Buddhism and the Japanese calligrapher Sugawara Mitsushige: Bodhisattva Kannon

Japan art and influence of China: Sakaki Hyakusen and Buddhism

Japan poetry and a life blighted by ill-health: Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902)

Japan art and Hishida Shunsō: A life cut short

Japan art and Gyoshu Hayami (1894-1935)

Japanese art and Tanaka Hōji (1812-1885)

Japan art and culture: Kaihō Yūshō (1533-1615), Buddhism, and China

Japan art and the fusion of ideas: Watanabe Shikō (1683-1755)

Art of Japan and Ikeda Koson: Hinoki Cypresses

Japan art and rinpa: Buddhism and high culture

The Chinese artist Shen Quan and his stay in Edo Japan: Sublime nature

Japan art and Yanagisawa Kien: Edo artist influenced by Buddhism, China, and Confucianism

Japan art and the individualism of Nagasawa Rosetsu (1754-1799)

Japan art and self-portrait while dying: Iwasa Matabei (1578-1650)

Japan art and the intriguing Hanabusa Itchō (1652-1724)

Art of Japan and Sanraku: Pre-Edo period to early Edo and anti-Christianity

Art of 12th century Japan: Mitsunaga and a glimpse into the ending of the Heian Period

Japanese Buddhist poetry: Saigyō, nature, and solitude

Japanese poetry: Highly esteemed Hitomaro from 7th to early 8th century

Japanese art and never-never land

Japanese Buddhism and poetry under Emperor Shōmu in 8th century Nara

Japanese Buddhism and art: Hakuin Ekaku and Chinese philosophy

The elderly population in Japan reaches 36.4 million

Failed Japan mission in Afghanistan means help from China, Russia, and regionally

Japanese artist Soga Shōhaku was influenced by the Muromachi Period

Art of Japan and nature: Felines and minimalist approach

Japan art in the Edo period: Kano-style art and rinpa

Saitama tourism: Heirinji Buddhist Temple and adorable compound

Saitama tourism: Buddhism and connecting with culture in Chichibu

Saitama tourism: Chichibu Shinto shrine and richness of history

Saitama tourism: Hodosan Shinto Shrine in Nagatoro

Tokyo tourism: Ryusenji (Meguro Fudo) Tendai Buddhist Temple

Tokyo tourism: Todoroki Valley and the natural flow of Buddhism and Shintoism

Tokyo tourism: Gotokuji Buddhist Temple, cats, and legend of Maneki Neko

Tanaka Hōji and Japan art: Taoism to Meiji era and words of Lao Tzu

Review of Tokyo Ueno Station by Renae Lucas-Hall

Art of Japan and wisdom of Watanabe Kazan (1793-1841): Covid-19, economic struggles, and Confucianism

Art of Japan during the last years of Edo

Japanese art, the impact of Paris, and the shadow of war: Kanokogi

Review of Ellery Queen’s Japanese Mystery Stories

Japan poetry and Okura (660-733): Influence of Confucianism and East Asia

Japanese tenth-century poetry: Mibu no Tadamine and the Middle Kingdom (China)

Japan tourism and Nara: The legacy of Buddhism and high culture thrives

Japan art and Goshun (1752-1811): The richness of Chinese and Japanese high culture

Japanese poetry and the recognition of death from tuberculosis

Japanese artist and a delightful Dutch winter landscape based on Hendrick Avercamp

Japanese Zen Buddhist poetry by Sesson Yūbai and the impact of the Middle Kingdom (China)

Japanese art through the lens of familiarity but in a changed entangled state

Japanese artist and her colorful and spiritual nuance of Maurice Utrillo

Emperor of Japan and the flow from Heisei to Reiwa

Japanese art and the brief artistic life of Shigeru Aoki (1882-1911)

Japanese female poetry of Izumi Shikibu of the tenth and early eleventh century

Japan tourism: The giant Buddhist statue at Nihon-ji Temple and Mount Nokogiri

Old Japanese photography of Kusakabe Kimbei and the mirage

Japan art and Mount Fuji: Suzuki Kiitsu in color by Sawako Utsumi and the flow of Sakai Hōitsu

Japan art and stunning angle to Sakai Hōitsu who belongs to the Edo Period by Sawako Utsumi
