Posts Tagged ‘Culture’
January 7, 2011

Photo by Srta Gisa
“Everybody experienced one’s mother’s heartbeat as an embryonic music. The sound of taiko is rooted in the common memory of mankind beyond different ethnic history. I think that people are drawn to taiko because of our primitive memory of life itself.” Eitetsu Hayashi
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Posted in Culture, Japan, Music | Tagged Art, Culture, Eitetsu Hayashi, Japan, Japanese Drum, Japanese Drumming, Kodo, Music, Odaiko, Ondekoza, Sado-Ondekoza, Taiko, Za Ondekoza | 4 Comments »
June 27, 2010

Kazuo Ohno. Photo by Arika Inoue (1992)
“He had a completely liberated soul and body on hand to exchange unseen energy with the audience…”
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Posted in Arts, Japan | Tagged Arts, Butoh, Culture, Dance, 舞踏, Japan, Japanese Dance, Kazuo Ohno, Tatsumi Hijikata, 土方巽, 大野一雄 | 2 Comments »
July 22, 2009
Posted in Culture, Japan | Tagged Children Full of Life, Children Full of Life Documentary, Culture, Documentary, Education, Film, Japan, Japanese Documentary, Kanazawa, Life, northwest of Tokyo, School in Japan, Teaching, Toshiro Kanamori | 4 Comments »
March 31, 2009
Posted in Anime | Tagged Akage no An, Akage no Anne, Anime, Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Green Gables Anime, Anne of Green Gables Prequel, Before Green Gables, Budge Wilson, Culture, Japan, Konnichiwa Anne, Lucy Maud Montgomery | 2 Comments »
March 27, 2009
Posted in Culture, Japan | Tagged Anime, Culture, Documentary Miku Hatsune, Hatsune Miku, Japan, Life, Miku Hatsune, vocaloid, Vocaloid Songs | 6 Comments »
March 25, 2009
Posted in Japan, Photographs | Tagged Culture, History, Japan, Japanese History, Life, Old Japanese Photographs, Photographs, Photographs of Japan, Photographs of Occupied Japan, Photography, Photos | 2 Comments »