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Color Calendar | Color of October 12: Daylily
Flowers of daylily, also known as forget-me-nots. There is an ancient legend that its orange c...
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by kataokatetsuya
The Jomon Eruption: Taro Okamoto and Primitive Beauty
"What is this?" - exclaimed Taro Okamoto when he encountered Jomon pottery at the Toky...
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by kataokatetsuya
Between the soil and rice: the shape of the soul that resides in vessels from the Jomon and Yayoi periods
Introduction: Times change, and...
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by kataokatetsuya
Prayers dwelling in the earth: The origin of the beauty of Jomon pottery
Introduction: Beauty is born from "white space"
"Jomon pottery ...
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"The only Japanese who is not obedient" - Jiro Shirasu and the "principles of beauty"
Some may feel that the name Shirasu Jiro sounds some...
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by kataokatetsuya
The Woman Known as Idaten Omasa: The Beauty and Travels of Shirasu Masako
"I was a sulky child. Even at the age of three, I hardly spoke and...
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by kataokatetsuya
The aesthetics of unsociability - Buaiso, where Jiro Shirasu and Masako lived
In the quiet countryside of Machida, Tokyo, there stands a q...
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by kataokatetsuya
Memories of Abiko: The intersection of literature and folk art
Abiko is a quiet town located on the banks of Lake Teganuma, at the eastern edg...
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by kataokatetsuya
Long live humanity - the light of Mushanokoji Saneatsu
Introduction
"Humans are beautiful" There was a man who tried to prove this not onl...
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by kataokatetsuya
The Ideal of Shirakaba and the Perspective of Mingei: The Intersection of Thought and Beauty
Introduction
As you walk through the birch fo...
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Wrapped in the light of birch trees - the ideal forest of the Shirakaba school
Introduction
There is literature that gently touc...
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by kataokatetsuya
"A Traveler Connecting Earth and Poetry: A Bridge Between Bernard Leach and Mingei"
Bernard Leach is a ceramic artist born in England and ra...
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