Posted in internet, history, anime, news on Mar 19th, 2007 No Comments »
The Tokyo Anime Fair will start on Thursday in Tokyo Big Site and as a warming up Yomiuri.co.jp has published an interesting article about the state of the industry. One thing is that the domestic film boom of last year was fueled by anime. 100,000 visitors are expected, the public opening days are in the […]
Posted in internet, food, culture, art and photography, travel and places, museums, news on Mar 15th, 2007 No Comments »
From March 20 to June 17 the Tokyo National Museum will host The Mind of Leonardo, an exhibition with as its centerpiece The Annunciation by Leonardo da Vinci. This exhibition is part of the Italian festival in Japan this spring called Primavera Italiana 2007. Not everyone in Italy was happy that this priceless work was […]
Posted in internet, culture, movies, travel and places, museums, news on Mar 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Despite the expected boost it will give the economy, not everybody in Nagasaki is happy with the government decision to register 20 Christian sites with the Unesco World Heritage List. As Asahi.com reports, the priests are afraid noisy tourists will disturb the peace of the believers by snapping their picture, leave graffitti on the walls […]
Posted in writing and poetry, internet on Mar 6th, 2007 No Comments »
2001 Waka for Japan 2001 is an extensive collection of classical waka poems from major anthologies, such as the Manyoshu, Kokinshu and Shinkokinshu. Besides the translation, a romanized version as well as the original Japanese are included. Brief introductions are provided; in a separate section you will also find information on the poets and some […]
Posted in writing and poetry, internet on Nov 29th, 2006 No Comments »
When you say “haiku,” you say “Matsuyama.” Matsuyama on Shikoku is the hometown of Matsuoka Shiki (1867-1902), who in his short life transformed the Edo-period hokku into the modern haiku. He is greatly honored in his hometown, with a Shiki Museum and numerous haiku stones. What is more, Shiki was not Matsuyama’s only famous haiku […]
Posted in internet, travel and places on Nov 26th, 2006 No Comments »
A Guide to Kamakura is a huge labor of love and the best site to read through before planning a visit to the old capital.
The website was written by Mr Tadahiro Kondo, who as he tells in his profile, worked his whole life as salaryman in the paper industry before retiring in 2001. He has […]
Posted in internet, art and photography on Nov 16th, 2006 No Comments »
Yes, your read it right: Ukiyo-e and other Japanese paintings on medical subjects. The site is not very large (a series of yamato-e paintings and 30 ukiyo-e), and comments are not perfect or even totally lacking and replaced by question marks, but the whole is weird enough to mention here.
After all, what does the virtuous […]
Posted in internet on Nov 10th, 2006 No Comments »
The Night View of Seto is a site with stunning panorama pictures of famous night views. The maker, Mr. M. Murakami, is not someone with a “night view mania” as he insists - he just likes to take pictures, put them together in panorama views, and so share night views with people […]
Posted in internet, life, kyoto on Oct 20th, 2006 3 Comments »
Ichimame has been called “the first and probably only maiko to write a blog” and she is creating quite a stir, attracting about 1,000 visitors a day, according to this article in the Daily Yomiuri. Since last December, the eighteen year old Ichimame blogs twice a week, mainly short pieces about her daily life: her […]