The Leading Shakuhachi – Japanese Musical Instruments
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
The shakuhachi is certainly Japan’s most well-known woodwind instrument. It takes its name out of “one shaku eight sun” (almost 55 centimeters), the standard length of a shakuhachi. You might like to get into the mood of shakuhachi sound while you’re reading this post ^^, so here is a video with a shakuhachi playing. The practice of
Japanese Rock Garden – 枯山水 Karesansui
Wednesday, 05 September 2012
[:en]Japanese Rock Garden – 枯山水 Karesansui: Often called a zen garden, the Japanese Rock Garden – (枯山水 Karesansui) is a type of garden which suggests mountains and water using only stones, sand or gravel and, occasionally, plants. Water is symbolized both by the arrangements of rock forms to create a dry waterfall and by patterns raked into sand to
Takashi Amano
Saturday, 11 August 2012
[:en]Takashi Amano (天野尚 Amano Takashi) is a a japanese landscape photographer and aquarist. The main characteristics of his work are landscapes of nature. His interest in nature has led him to visit tropical rainforests in Amazon, Borneo and West Africa and pristine forests in Japan, and has been working on series of photos focusing on “untouched nature”. This photo seems