Japanese Art

Japanese Art

A wikizine dedicated to Japanese art is all of its forms. Paintings, sculptures, textiles. Share pictures of your favorite Japanese art or discuss artists and upcoming art exhibits.

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People walk past by the half body statue at Tokyo's shopping area Shibuya on August 22, 2008 in Tokyo, Japan. Online Game Company NHN Japan display these statues under the concept of "The Half Of Life Is Game", to promote their mobile game site "Hange.jp". When people discover the statue and touch their arm with mobile phone, the application site will automatically open and a lucky winner will be rewarded 10,000 U.S. Dollars. (Photo by Junko Kimura/Getty Images AsiaPac) Japanese online game company NHN has set up several of these half-person statues to promote its new Web site where people can download games to ... Read Full Story
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A Shinkansen bullet train speeds by Mount Fuji. Services on the Tokaido Line linking Tokyo and Osaka began in 1964. The fastest trains now reach a maximum speed of 270 kilometers per hour and cover the distance between the two cities in 2 hours and 30 minutes. Read Full Story
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                    ® Maureen Bullis http://banbasartfulrealm.blogspot.com Amaterasu, goddess of the sun in Japanese mythology, was a beautiful and compassionate goddess who ruled both the sun and the heavenly fields of rice that fed the Japanese people. I used my son's beautiful girlfriend, Yasasha, as a model because she seems so much like this goddess. Her mother who grew up on Okanawa, graciously wrote Amaterasu in calligraphy for me to paint onto her Kimono. Read Full Story
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Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one is called "Japanese Art". Here you can find fresh voices and respond in real time. Some members write articles about recent news and trends related to the wikizine's topic, others recount relevant personal stories or share their favorite pictures and video clips. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this wikizine? Well, then put on your journalist's cap and add your own article! Read Full Story
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Two Different girl wearing the same bra, in two different colors One Pink One Blue Who will you vote for? Read Full Story
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Hiroshige - 1833-4 53 Stations Of The Tokaido

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Hiroshige - 1833-4 53 Stations Of The Tokaido

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Perhaps the most striking aspect of the museum itself is a giant mural of Charlie Brown and a football-holding Lucy created by Japanese artist Yoshiteru Otani. The mural was fashioned out of 3588 2-by-5-inch ceramic tiles emblazoned with 10 years' ...  
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Tortoise General Store on Abbot Kinney in Venice was opened by husband and wife Keiko and Taku Shinomoto at the end of October 2003, after they moved to Los Angeles from Tokyo. The Shinomoto's envisioned a general store full of beautiful and practical ...  
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There he was enrolled in the Asian studies program/Center for International Education, where he studied spoken Japanese, written Japanese, Japanese art history and Japanese history. As soon as he returned stateside, Mullane was off again to Leiden, ...  
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Mercy Service League caught the Japanese wave March 9 during a Japanese art exhibit and tea at Mercy Medical Center. Members also welcomed new and prospective members. Student artists displayed kimonos, Japanese scrolls, tea sets and Japanese pole ...  
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... show how broken clay vessels were mended with lacquer resin and sprinkled with gold dust—transforming their appearance and creating a new component of appreciation in “Golden Seams: The Japanese Art of Mending Ceramics,” also on view though Nov. 8. ...  
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Handmade art and crafts from Japan will be the subject of a talk at Port Coquitlam's Leigh Square on Wednesday night. Port Moody potter Lewis Kennett and his wife recently travelled to the Asian country and took pictures of their art discoveries. ...  
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Hariki Susumu, who won first prize for playing harmonica at a musical contest in the south of Japan, satisfied harmonica lovers at “Return Cafe’” on Nguyen Khuyen Street in Hanoi where dozens of harmonica music lovers had gathered to listen to his ...  
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