Category: Living Arts


Sept.11

Traveling exhibition, Japanese contemporary ceramics: the Horvitz Collection PART II

Sept.11

Hands & Earth: Six Perspectives on Japanese Contemporary Ceramics Biographical information by Joan Mirviss…

Sept.11

Kabuki actor plays a drunk imitating a man who is imitating a woman inspired by 1930’s African American tap dancers

Sept.11

3 minute video The late kabuki actor, NAKAMURA Kanzaburo V, performs a comedy medly of dance styles inspired b…

Sept.10

The Spy Across the Table: Mysterious Book Report No. 290

Sept.10 John Dwaine McKenna

A review by John Dwaine McKenna of Barry Lancet’s latest book Although prognostication and predicting th…

Sept.09

Understanding Buddhist Mudra

Sept.09 Mark Schumacher

By Mark Schumacher In Buddhist sculpture and painting throughout Asia, the Buddha (Nyorai, Tathagata) are gene…

Sept.08

The Japanese Aesthetic of Recycling

Sept.08 Gail Rieke

by Gail Rieke Japanese design demonstrates its genius in myriad ways when it comes to reusing materials. The p…

Sept.07

Cetaceans in the Sea of Okhotsk

Sept.07 Mark Brazil

Cetaceans in the Sea of Okhotsk By Mark Brazil Blue above then blue below. Viewed from just below the pass at …

Sept.06

Sake expert John Gauntner reviews seminar in Sacramento for brewers

Sept.06 John Gauntner

There was, in late June, in Sacramento California, an unprecedented event: a seminar ran by a very prominent p…

Sept.06

Longtime Japan tour planner recalls first summer in Kyoto, 1986

Sept.06 Nancy Craft

My first teacher in Japan: Mari Horie by Nancy Craft The news headlines about this summer’s brutal heat wave i…

Sept.04

Stagiaire by David Israelow

Sept.04 David Israelow

Stagiaire, literally “trainee” in French, often refers to short kitchen stints where a cook works for free.  T…

Sept.03

How Art Historians Cracked the Case of Enigmatic Japanese Painter Hasegawa Tōhaku

Sept.03 Allison Meier

From Artsy.net:  by Allison Meier Hasegawa Tōhaku’s legacy has played out like an art-historical whodunit—whic…