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  • Contemporary Tanka Poet Mariko Kitakubo
    سلام، من می خواهم بدانم کلمه کینکو هیو در ژاپن به چه معناست و چرا هوسودا نام کتاب خود را ایچیموکو کینکو هیو گذاشته است؟
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A comprehensive festival of Media Arts that honors outstanding works from a diverse range of media- from animation and comics to media art
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The Japan Ukiyo-e Museum (日本浮世絵博物館) is a privately owned Japanese art museum in Matsumoto, Nagano, specializing in Japanese woodblock prints.
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A database of seasonal words (worldwide saijiki) aimed at creating a deeper understanding of kigo issues (kigopedia), maintained by Dr Gabi Greve.
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Information about Japanese culture, with Daruma-san and with haiku, maintained by Dr. Gabi Greve.
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General information of Japan's only remaining long sword ryu, the kageryu.
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At Joukeian you will have the opportunity to take in the peaceful atmosphere, enjoy traditional Japanese tea and seasonal meals.
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The Ōta Memorial Museum of Art (Ukiyo-e) opened in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan in January 1980. It presents rotating exhibitions of Ukiyo-e from Ōta Seizo V's collection of over 12,000 pieces.
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Providing high definition images of national treasures and important cultural properties owned by four national museums (Tokyo National Museum, Kyoto National Museum, Nara National Museum and Kyushu National Museum) that belong to the National Institutes
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JAANUS is the on-line Dictionary of Japanese Architectural and Art Historical Terminology compiled by Dr. Mary Neighbour Parent.
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Located in Oarai close to the seaside and next to a camping ground, the Oarai Museum of Bakumatsu-Meiji History founded by Mitsuaki Tanaka
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The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (東京都美術館 Tōkyōto Bijutsukan) is an art museum in Tokyo, Japan. It is located in Ueno Park.
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Traditional Arts
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Traditional Japanese copperware produced in Tsubame (燕市), Niigata, for many generations.
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Contemporary Art
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Isamu Noguchi was one of the most important sculptors of his time. The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum Japan is the fulfillment of Noguchi's in
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The Yamatane Museum of Art (山種証券) is Japan’s first museum to specialize in Nihonga, a style of Japanese watercolour painting.
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The Artizon Museum will open in January 2020 and will display the collections of the former Bridgestone Museum of Art (ブリヂストン美術館, Burijisuton Bijutsukan), an art museum in Tokyo that was closed in 2015. The museum was founded in 1952 by the founder of Bri
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Devised in Tokyo in 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. It has turned into a massive celebration, with events happening in hundreds of cities around the world. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for t
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The Museum of Maritime Science (船の科学館) is located in Odaiba but currently closed to the public. The outdoor exhibition area remains open.
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The Fukagawa Edo Museum (深川江戸資料館 Fukagawa Edo Shiryōkan) displays a detailed reproduction of a nineteenth-century neighbourhood in Fukagawa, a prosperous community of the Edo Period on the east bank of the Sumida.
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Excellent resource on all aspects of sado: tea schools, utensils, decoration, ettiquette, etc.
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