I think I'm in love...
Sign language can be felt as well as seen...
Drums, gongs and dance...
Peace, Love and Article Nine...See more photos at my Flickr account.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Golden Week Photos Part II
These photos are from the Nakanoshima Festival in Osaka.
I think I'm in love...
Sign language can be felt as well as seen...
Drums, gongs and dance...
Peace, Love and Article Nine...
See more photos at my Flickr account.
I think I'm in love...Sign language can be felt as well as seen...Drums, gongs and dance...Peace, Love and Article Nine...See more photos at my Flickr account.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Golden Week Photos
It's Golden Week here in Japan and the weather has been perfect - sunny and warm. I have been taking advantage of the weather and some time off from work to keep practicing with the new camera. I made some new friends in my neighborhood.
Pretty spring flowers near my house.
Bringing everything they need for fun and a picnic in the park.
Flower arrangements frame playing in the park.I took way too many photos to post in the blog, so check out my gallery at my Flickr account.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Daruma San in Japan, Japanese Art and Culture
Announcement from H-ASIA:
The Daruma Museum and Gallery Pages . . . Daruma san (Darumasan, Bodhidharuma, Bodhidharma, Daruma Daishi, Dharuma, Dharma).
Daruma san is a unique representative of Japanese Culture and its depictions in the various Arts and Crafts.
Here you find information about Japanese culture, with Daruma san and with Haiku as your guide.
This isn't the most organized blog, but it has a lot of information and photos relating to Japan and Daruma. It is well worth the time exploring...
Check it out:
http://darumasan.blogspot.com/
The Daruma Museum and Gallery Pages . . . Daruma san (Darumasan, Bodhidharuma, Bodhidharma, Daruma Daishi, Dharuma, Dharma).
Daruma san is a unique representative of Japanese Culture and its depictions in the various Arts and Crafts.
Here you find information about Japanese culture, with Daruma san and with Haiku as your guide.
This isn't the most organized blog, but it has a lot of information and photos relating to Japan and Daruma. It is well worth the time exploring...
Check it out:
http://darumasan.blogspot.com/
East Asia Image Collection at Lafayette College Libraries Digital Collections
Announcement via H-Asia:
Overview of Collections
The East Asia Image Collection is an open-access archive of digitized photographs, negatives, postcards, and slides of colonial Taiwan (1900-1945) and occupied Japan (1947-52). The Collection is built around a core of visual materials donated to Skillman Library Special Collections by the family of Gerald and Rella Warner. Images unique to this collection include the Warners' unpublished slides and negatives, made from snapshots taken during their years of US State Department service in Asia (1932-1952). Rare materials include prewar picture postcards, high-quality commercial prints, and colonial era picture books. Each record in the East Asia Image Collection has been assigned subject headings, hyper-linked metadata, and, to the fullest extent possible, historiographical, bibliographical and technical data.
Check it out:
http://digital.lafayette.edu/collections/eastasia
Overview of Collections
The East Asia Image Collection is an open-access archive of digitized photographs, negatives, postcards, and slides of colonial Taiwan (1900-1945) and occupied Japan (1947-52). The Collection is built around a core of visual materials donated to Skillman Library Special Collections by the family of Gerald and Rella Warner. Images unique to this collection include the Warners' unpublished slides and negatives, made from snapshots taken during their years of US State Department service in Asia (1932-1952). Rare materials include prewar picture postcards, high-quality commercial prints, and colonial era picture books. Each record in the East Asia Image Collection has been assigned subject headings, hyper-linked metadata, and, to the fullest extent possible, historiographical, bibliographical and technical data.
Check it out:
http://digital.lafayette.edu/collections/eastasia
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Political Poster: Close the Base!
Political poster as reported in today's Japan Today. Caption reads: This full-page ad by Japanese group Juco Network ran in The Washington Post last week, protesting a plan to build a relocation site for the U.S. Marine Corps’ Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture. Former Okinawa Gov Masahide Ota was among some 90 signatories.
Photo and text borrowed from Japan Today:
http://www.japantoday.com/category/picture-of-the-day/view/anti-base-ad
More information:
http://closethebase.org/
"Japan's first film university to be launched next year"
From today's Japan Today:
A vocational film school in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, is set to become Japan’s first accredited university specializing in filmmaking from April next year, with the goal of becoming an academy of motion picture arts drawing students not only from Japan but other Asian countries, the school said.
‘‘We hope to make the university a major movie hub, gathering young Asians,’’ said Tadao Sato, head of the Japan Academy of Moving Images.
‘‘Making it a university was a dream of director Imamura,’’ he said, referring to the late film director Shohei Imamura, who founded the precursor to the Japan Academy.
The corporation running the vocational school plans to file an application for accreditation with the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry in late March.
Imamura, a two-time laureate of the Cannes International Film Festival Palme d’Or for ‘‘The Ballad of Narayama’’ and ‘‘The Eel,’’ launched the previous school 35 years ago.
Graduates of the school include many distinguished filmmakers, including Sang-il Lee, the director of ‘‘Hula Girls.’‘
Film academies in China and South Korea have asked for an exchange program with the school.
But progress has not been made on the proposals because the school is not an accredited institution that can transfer credits to and from other like institutions and offer scholarships.
‘‘We would be able to exchange teachers and students across borders if we become a university,’’ Sato said.
Sato has introduced Asian films to Japan through his work as a film critic.
While continuing to teach filmmaking techniques, such as camera work and the history of movies in Japan and abroad, the school plans to provide additional education needed to understand film cultures, including literature, philosophy and languages, school officials said.
The school has been enrolling 200 students a year in the acting and imaging departments.
It plans to get rid of the acting department, reducing the enrolment quota to 140 a year when it becomes a university.
A vocational film school in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, is set to become Japan’s first accredited university specializing in filmmaking from April next year, with the goal of becoming an academy of motion picture arts drawing students not only from Japan but other Asian countries, the school said.
‘‘We hope to make the university a major movie hub, gathering young Asians,’’ said Tadao Sato, head of the Japan Academy of Moving Images.
‘‘Making it a university was a dream of director Imamura,’’ he said, referring to the late film director Shohei Imamura, who founded the precursor to the Japan Academy.
The corporation running the vocational school plans to file an application for accreditation with the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry in late March.
Imamura, a two-time laureate of the Cannes International Film Festival Palme d’Or for ‘‘The Ballad of Narayama’’ and ‘‘The Eel,’’ launched the previous school 35 years ago.
Graduates of the school include many distinguished filmmakers, including Sang-il Lee, the director of ‘‘Hula Girls.’‘
Film academies in China and South Korea have asked for an exchange program with the school.
But progress has not been made on the proposals because the school is not an accredited institution that can transfer credits to and from other like institutions and offer scholarships.
‘‘We would be able to exchange teachers and students across borders if we become a university,’’ Sato said.
Sato has introduced Asian films to Japan through his work as a film critic.
While continuing to teach filmmaking techniques, such as camera work and the history of movies in Japan and abroad, the school plans to provide additional education needed to understand film cultures, including literature, philosophy and languages, school officials said.
The school has been enrolling 200 students a year in the acting and imaging departments.
It plans to get rid of the acting department, reducing the enrolment quota to 140 a year when it becomes a university.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
"50 Japanese town logos with kanji"
Pink Tentacle has posted a link of town symbols based upon kanji. The one above is from Tenri city in Nara prefecture. Can you see the kanji 天? And perhaps the circle represents the kanrodai at ojiba at the headquarters of the religion Tenrikyo.
Check out more town symbols:
http://pinktentacle.com/2010/04/50-japanese-town-logos-with-kanji/
At the end of the post is a link to their post on town symbols based upon hiragana and katakana.
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