Japanese

Looking at the Japanese, you are always surprised at how they are able to turn everything around into a honed ideal. This is especially true of art. The technique of kirigami (Japanese "paper carving"), which came to Japan from China, turned into a real dream of a perfectionist. Just look ...

Legends say that a great power is hidden in the tails of Kitsune. The older the spirit, the wiser it is. In this video, you can watch the process of creating Seven kitsune tails. By the same principle, you can make 2, 3, 4 ....9 tails. :) To make all the tails look the same, just take the pattern ...

Many children have toys that they drag around, spoon-feed, and actively squeeze. It is not surprising that after a while the toys lose their former appearance. In Japan, they decided that plush friends should be saved! That's how Fumofu Land & Nuigurumi Health Corporation was found ...

When you hear "art", food isn't the first thing that comes to your mind, is it? The Japanese cook known as Mikyoui00 could argue. He and his family live in the Matsuyama city, it's a port city so they have easy access to super fresh fish.While teaching his son the basics ...

Until the end of September, yukata season goes on in Japan.  Yukata is a traditional Japanese clothing, by the cut it is similar to a kimono. But it's not a kimono (as emphasized by the Japanese themselves). Yukata is seasonal, summer clothing, no one would wear a yukata out of season. ...

Tsutsugaki (筒描) is another Japanese resistance fabric dyeing technique. Parts of the picture are reserved with rice paste, part of the fabric, not covered with paste, is painted, then the paste is washed off. Rice paste is usually made from sweet rice, which has a high starch content and is quite ...

On March 20, the Cherry Blossom Season has officially opened in Japan. "Hanami", a traditional admiring of flowering trees, begins with the first blossoming plum or cherry flower and lasts only 7-10 days until the petals fall. Favorable temperature for cherry and plum blossom starts from ...

Desktop mini dresser is very convenient. It is great to store small things, materials for craftswork in such a dresser, because all the boxes are small. In terms of decor, such a piece of furniture can be a great part of the interior. For example, my customer wanted to add a touch of the East. The ...

Japan has produced many types of art (discussed in part one), I got interested by kinysayga technique. The imagination of Japanese craftspeople has no boundaries of one type of handicraft, so materials of one handicraft also become materials for another. Japanese handicraft kinysayga — silk pictures ...

Japan is an amazing country with its culture, customs and mentality. Japanese culture intertwines ancient traditions, new technologies, fashion trends from Europe. For two hundred years, Japan had been isolated from the outside world, which helped it to preserve its identity. Interest in Japanese ...

Tatsuya Tanaka, a Japanese artist, is known worldwide as the creator of the project "Miniature Calendar", which he began in April 2011 and continues this work till now. Every day a photo of tiny characters in modern world appears in the calendar. The main pecularity is that the real things ...

On 19 January, the winners of the VI Open competition "Russian Cup on Snow and Ice Sculpture "Winter Vernissage" were awarded in Perm, Russia. This year`s theme of the event was "Japanese Motives", and teams from different Russian, Chinese, Malaysian, Singaporean cities ...