Column Make Toshikoshi Soba the Center of Your Tokyo New Year: A Quiet Bowl That Resets the Year
I love the moment when steam rises from a bowl of soba on a cold December night.Even in a city full ...
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Column Luxury New Year in Tokyo & Kanto: Make Shodo Your Anchor Experience
If you’re visiting Tokyo (or the wider Kanto region) during the year-end and New Year season, one th...
Column Shodo Japanese Calligraphy in Winter: A Step-by-Step 10-Minute Practice with Sumi Ink
December brings a particular kind of quiet. The air is dry, daylight tilts early, and black ink look...
Column Ink, Light, and Christmas: Why a Shodo Calligraphy Set Is the Perfect Winter Gift
I picked up a brush for the first time in 1950.Since then, I have spent more than seventy years livi...
Column What Is Sumie (Sumi-e)? Definition & Background Guide — Line, Wash, and the Beauty of Ma
Sumie (sumi-e, Japanese ink painting) builds worlds with black alone: the calibrated dance of line, ...
Column Japanese Tea × Shodo × Incense — A Fifteen-Minute Ritual You Can Repeat at Home (shodo / Japanese calligraphy / Japanese culture / Japanese artist / japan and culture)
Why tea, shodo, and incense belong togetherThe first infusion of Japanese tea and the first stroke o...
Column Start Japanese Sumi Ink — A No-Stress Starter’s Guide to Your First Finished Sheet
Why This Is an Especially Good Moment to BeginJapanese materials feel unusually accessible internati...
Column Soga no Umako and Japanese Calligraphy — The Buddhist Temples That Gave Birth to a Tradition of Writing
Introduction – Shodo Japanese Calligraphy, Buddhism, and Japanese CultureIf you are interested in Ja...
Column Soga no Umako — Buddhism’s First Patron and the Dawn of Japanese Calligraphy
Introduction: Buddhism, Shodo Japanese Calligraphy, and the Asuka PeriodIf you are interested in Jap...
Column Prince Shōtoku and Japanese Calligraphy – Writing as the Foundation of Thought and Nationhood
Introduction – Why Prince Shōtoku Matters to Shodo Japanese CalligraphyWhen people search for shodo ...