Left-handed and calligraphy
Left-handed people often are not said to reform it to be right-handed now a day.
During growing up with tools, for instance a spoon, chop…
Ukiyo-e is a woodblock print of Japanese popular art which were produced before about two to three hundred years.
Their subject matters are female beauties, …
Dharma is a rounded shape ornament that have legless, armless and neckless doll.
They have the weight on the base so they will always sit up again by itself even they …
Cosplay is an activity in which people enjoy wearing costumes and putting on makeup to imitate modern characters from animation, games and manga.
It was …
Yuta Iyama is a professional Go player who first achieved the seven Crowns in the Go world.
April 2016, he got the title "The tenth dan level" and became a …
“KABUKI” is one of the Japanese traditional dramas and is played by only men.
It is a popular amusement of the common people in the Edo period when it widened 400 year…
Judo is a traditional Japanese martial art that the players do not use the tool.
A match is fought within a 9.1m×9.1m, 50 tatami-mat area.
It became an Ol…
Igo is a game in which two persons alternately place black and white stone on the board.
There is a grid pattern of 19 lines on top of the board, the stone is put in …
Rakugo is a form of Japanese verbal entertainment.
A storyteller sits on stage called Kouza wearing kimono.
Using a fan, teacup and a small cloth as props, and withou…
Pianist Hiroko Nakamura,72 died on July 26
Japanese pianist Hiroko Nakamura who was a prizewinner at the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition in 1965 di…
It was announced Boston Arts Museum in Nagoya would be closed in 2019, March 31 after three years.
The museum does not have owned paintings and it has exhib…
“Noritetsu” are fans whose hobby is riding train.
There are fans who like to take photos of train, fans who like to collect something related to railroad, fans who stud…
MET LIVE VIEWING
The operas of Metropolitan Opera House of NY can be seen in Japan.
The works are super well-known operas and are played by world-famous vocalists.
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AKB48 is a top sales group of CDs and very popular in Japan.
AKB48 is the idols group that producer Yasushi Akimoto created in 2005.
AKB48 performs at the exclusive AK…
Arashi
Arashi is now a most popular singer group in Japan.
Arashi consists of five cool guys who are twenty-seven to thirty years old.
They say they are …
写経
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Shakyou =Transcribing a sutra
“Shakyou” is to make a handw…