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KYOTO JOURNAL
Kyoto Journal is an award-winning quarterly English magazine founded in Kyoto, Japan, presenting cultural insights from all of Asia since1987.
THE ART OF TRANSLATION The Art of Translation. number of years ago several of our Japanese-related journals carried an ongoing debate on the art or techniques of translating the prose literature of Japan. Some of these manifestos and arguments often degenerated into a subtle, or not so subtle, academic name-calling. But two distinct groups did emerge. JAPANESE COURTYARD GARDENS The word tsubo itself is very interesting (niwa simply means garden) and gives a clear insight into the meaning of the garden and its potential. One meaning of tsubo (written 坪) is: an area equal to two tatami mats or about 3.3 square meters. Most tsubo gardens are small, some only a few square meters, many larger, but the implication of this definition is that the tsubo garden is ‘very UNCOVERING JAPANESE GARDENS OUTSIDE OF JAPAN Photo courtesy of Shofuso garden. Shofuso, which translates as Pine Breeze Garden (松風荘) in Japanese, and its gardens were modelled on that of a seventeenth century-style Japanese estate of the same name that was built in Nagoya in the early 50s. Its designer, the prolific architect Yoshimura Junzo (吉村順三) made a point ofutilising
A RARE PLEASURE
Relatively unknown and overlooked by scholars outside of Japan, Kaga-no-Chiyo (1703-1775), a poet artist-calligrapher, perhaps with this book can join in familiarity the likes of Shikibu Murasaki, Ono no Komachi and Yosano Akiko. The book— Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master —held in both hands, feels generous. Indeed, the design allows forone
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BIZEN'S PAST AND PRESENT AT THE MIHO Bizen’s Past and Present at the Miho. With warm ochre blushes and the subtle textures of exposed clay, the ceramic style born out of Okayama prefecture’s Bizen is humble while retaining potential for visceral expression. The Fall show at the Miho Museum in Shiga prefecture, “ Bizen: From Earth and Fire, Exquisite Forms ,”running from
SYNTHETIC DREAMS: THE ART OF MARIKO MORI Mariko Mori broke into the international art scene with her large-scale self-portrait photography in the mid-1990s. Not limiting herself within this medium she adopted multi-media techniques and has since created a mélange of installations, video, and performance that incorporate high-fashion, sci-fi pop, traditional Japanese rituals, Shinto Onmyodo spirituality, and music. LISTENING TO VEGETABLES: THE ART OF TANAHASHI TOSHIO trip to Kyoto is said to be incomplete without sampling its famous kaiseki cuisine, a sumptuous multi-course dinner which today can fetch up to $500 despite having originated in the demure tea ceremony.Less well-known but of similarly humble origins is shojin-ryori, the entirely vegetarian Buddhist cuisine that was first introduced to Kyoto monasteries from China in the 7th and 8th centuries. EVERTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT JAPANESE WOOD SPECIES AND Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan by Mechtild Mertz. Otsu: Kaiseisha Press, 220 pp., ¥6,090. hile reading Mechtild Mertz’s Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan my initial reaction was visceral and immediate: why wasn’t a book like this available much earlier? For the past 30 years, my own experiences with Japanese woodworking jargon never seemed to move beyond anKYOTO JOURNAL
Kyoto Journal is an award-winning quarterly English magazine founded in Kyoto, Japan, presenting cultural insights from all of Asia since1987.
THE ART OF TRANSLATION The Art of Translation. number of years ago several of our Japanese-related journals carried an ongoing debate on the art or techniques of translating the prose literature of Japan. Some of these manifestos and arguments often degenerated into a subtle, or not so subtle, academic name-calling. But two distinct groups did emerge. JAPANESE COURTYARD GARDENS The word tsubo itself is very interesting (niwa simply means garden) and gives a clear insight into the meaning of the garden and its potential. One meaning of tsubo (written 坪) is: an area equal to two tatami mats or about 3.3 square meters. Most tsubo gardens are small, some only a few square meters, many larger, but the implication of this definition is that the tsubo garden is ‘very UNCOVERING JAPANESE GARDENS OUTSIDE OF JAPAN Photo courtesy of Shofuso garden. Shofuso, which translates as Pine Breeze Garden (松風荘) in Japanese, and its gardens were modelled on that of a seventeenth century-style Japanese estate of the same name that was built in Nagoya in the early 50s. Its designer, the prolific architect Yoshimura Junzo (吉村順三) made a point ofutilising
A RARE PLEASURE
Relatively unknown and overlooked by scholars outside of Japan, Kaga-no-Chiyo (1703-1775), a poet artist-calligrapher, perhaps with this book can join in familiarity the likes of Shikibu Murasaki, Ono no Komachi and Yosano Akiko. The book— Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master —held in both hands, feels generous. Indeed, the design allows forone
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BIZEN'S PAST AND PRESENT AT THE MIHO Bizen’s Past and Present at the Miho. With warm ochre blushes and the subtle textures of exposed clay, the ceramic style born out of Okayama prefecture’s Bizen is humble while retaining potential for visceral expression. The Fall show at the Miho Museum in Shiga prefecture, “ Bizen: From Earth and Fire, Exquisite Forms ,”running from
SYNTHETIC DREAMS: THE ART OF MARIKO MORI Mariko Mori broke into the international art scene with her large-scale self-portrait photography in the mid-1990s. Not limiting herself within this medium she adopted multi-media techniques and has since created a mélange of installations, video, and performance that incorporate high-fashion, sci-fi pop, traditional Japanese rituals, Shinto Onmyodo spirituality, and music. LISTENING TO VEGETABLES: THE ART OF TANAHASHI TOSHIO trip to Kyoto is said to be incomplete without sampling its famous kaiseki cuisine, a sumptuous multi-course dinner which today can fetch up to $500 despite having originated in the demure tea ceremony.Less well-known but of similarly humble origins is shojin-ryori, the entirely vegetarian Buddhist cuisine that was first introduced to Kyoto monasteries from China in the 7th and 8th centuries. EVERTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT JAPANESE WOOD SPECIES AND Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan by Mechtild Mertz. Otsu: Kaiseisha Press, 220 pp., ¥6,090. hile reading Mechtild Mertz’s Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan my initial reaction was visceral and immediate: why wasn’t a book like this available much earlier? For the past 30 years, my own experiences with Japanese woodworking jargon never seemed to move beyond an SHOP | KYOTO JOURNAL Kyoto Journal, a non-profit quarterly established in 1987, reaches far beyond Japan's ancient capital to be your gateway to understanding and appreciating the lifestyles, cultures and societies of Asia. Shop over 50 past issues, dating from 1987 to 2019. TIP: Use the dropdown on the right to view products in order of date of release or by price. SIX THOUSAND LESSONS The human epistemologies embedded in the six thousand spoken ways of knowing God compare with the six thousand ways a river can plunge from high country to low, or the six thousand ways dawn might break over the Atacama, the Tanami, the Gobi, or the Sonora. Anyone determined to see so many of the world’s disparate faces might easily succumb KIRO: CARVING OUT THE FUTURE OF HAKONE YOSEGI MARQUETRY Kiro is a workshop that is true to its name, both honoring the legacy of Hakone yosegi and branching forward into the future and beyond. For those Kyoto Journal readers interested in purchasing from the Kiro workshop, our friends at Nihon Ichiban, an exporter of high-quality Japanese crafts, is also supplying exclusive items able to be shipped LISTENING TO VEGETABLES: THE ART OF TANAHASHI TOSHIO trip to Kyoto is said to be incomplete without sampling its famous kaiseki cuisine, a sumptuous multi-course dinner which today can fetch up to $500 despite having originated in the demure tea ceremony.Less well-known but of similarly humble origins is shojin-ryori, the entirely vegetarian Buddhist cuisine that was first introduced to Kyoto monasteries from China in the 7th and 8th centuries. EVERTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT JAPANESE WOOD SPECIES AND Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan by Mechtild Mertz. Otsu: Kaiseisha Press, 220 pp., ¥6,090. hile reading Mechtild Mertz’s Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan my initial reaction was visceral and immediate: why wasn’t a book like this available much earlier? For the past 30 years, my own experiences with Japanese woodworking jargon never seemed to move beyond an BIRTH & DEATH OF EACH MOMENT The Tibetan Book of the Dead talks about these momentary bardo states, states of transition from one realm to another, from life to death to re-birth. These states of transition also exist in each moment of our life when we are alive on this earth, each moment containing a mini-birth and mini-death. One result of the shock of September 11,2001
ON LEARNING POTTERY IN JAPAN On Learning Pottery in Japan. For foreigners wishing to study traditional arts in Japan there is often a wide and dangerous gap between their romantic notions of apprenticeship and the hard reality they find when they finally get here. Ruth Huebner, a potter and computer programer now living in rural Maryland, recollects her threevisits to
SYNTHETIC DREAMS: THE ART OF MARIKO MORI Mariko Mori broke into the international art scene with her large-scale self-portrait photography in the mid-1990s. Not limiting herself within this medium she adopted multi-media techniques and has since created a mélange of installations, video, and performance that incorporate high-fashion, sci-fi pop, traditional Japanese rituals, Shinto Onmyodo spirituality, and music.SHINTO SCHOLAR
Shinto — “the way of the kami”— is rooted deeply in pre-historic Japanese religious and agricultural practices. The term kami can refer to Japanese mythological deities, but also can mean divinity manifested in natural objects, places, animals, and even human beings. Shinto rituals and celebrations stress harmony betweendeities, man
HOST CLUBS | KYOTO JOURNAL Despite the popular media coverage on the Japan host club phenomenon these men did not seem to have any clue about what host clubs were. I explained, “Hosts are sort of heterosexual male sex workers, but they do not sell ‘sex,’ though it can happen outside of the club. It is more of a companionship, like a hostess club.KYOTO JOURNAL
Kyoto Journal is an award-winning quarterly English magazine founded in Kyoto, Japan, presenting cultural insights from all of Asia since1987.
SHOP | KYOTO JOURNAL Shop the latest print and digital editions of Kyoto Journal, and subscribe to save up to 60% on shipping and subsequent issues. BECOME A CONTRIBUTOR JAPANESE COURTYARD GARDENS The word tsubo itself is very interesting (niwa simply means garden) and gives a clear insight into the meaning of the garden and its potential. One meaning of tsubo (written 坪) is: an area equal to two tatami mats or about 3.3 square meters. Most tsubo gardens are small, some only a few square meters, many larger, but the implication of this definition is that the tsubo garden is ‘very THE ART OF TRANSLATION A number of years ago several of our Japanese-related journals carried an ongoing debate on the art or techniques of translating the prose literature of Japan. Some of these manifestos and arguments often degenerated into a subtle, or not so subtle, academic name-calling. But two distinct groups did emerge SIX THOUSAND LESSONS During these years of travel, my understanding of what diversity means has changed. I began with an intuition, that the world was, from place to place and from culture to culture, far more different than I had been led to believe. Later, I began to understand that to ignore these differences was not simply insensitive but unjust and perilous. EVERTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT JAPANESE WOOD SPECIES AND Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan by Mechtild Mertz. Otsu: Kaiseisha Press, 220 pp., ¥6,090. hile reading Mechtild Mertz’s Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan my initial reaction was visceral and immediate: why wasn’t a book like this available much earlier? For the past 30 years, my own experiences with Japanese woodworking jargon never seemed to move beyond an TRANSLATING A CLASSIC: THE PILLOW BOOK, BY SEI SHÔNAGON The Pillow Book is an extreme example of a work that has lived past its time, and attained the deathless status that writers dream of as they labour over their page or screen, transmuting their moment into moment-transcending language. Sei Shônagon, who may well have allowed herself such a dream from time to time as her brush moved over the page, despite the fact that what she was writingA RARE PLEASURE
The few translations that do exist of particular haiku poets have focused on male poets such as Basho, Shiki and Issa. For these reasons alone, readers should welcome the translation of the work of a premiere Japanese woman poet artist-calligrapher, Kaga-no-Chiyo. BIZEN'S PAST AND PRESENT AT THE MIHO With warm ochre blushes and the subtle textures of exposed clay, the ceramic style born out of Okayama prefecture’s Bizen is humble while retaining potential for visceral expression. The Fall show at the Miho Museum in Shiga prefecture, “Bizen: From Earth and Fire, Exquisite Forms,” running from September 14th through December 15th represents a rare occasion to view a diverse showing ofKYOTO JOURNAL
Kyoto Journal is an award-winning quarterly English magazine founded in Kyoto, Japan, presenting cultural insights from all of Asia since1987.
SHOP | KYOTO JOURNAL Shop the latest print and digital editions of Kyoto Journal, and subscribe to save up to 60% on shipping and subsequent issues. BECOME A CONTRIBUTOR JAPANESE COURTYARD GARDENS The word tsubo itself is very interesting (niwa simply means garden) and gives a clear insight into the meaning of the garden and its potential. One meaning of tsubo (written 坪) is: an area equal to two tatami mats or about 3.3 square meters. Most tsubo gardens are small, some only a few square meters, many larger, but the implication of this definition is that the tsubo garden is ‘very THE ART OF TRANSLATION A number of years ago several of our Japanese-related journals carried an ongoing debate on the art or techniques of translating the prose literature of Japan. Some of these manifestos and arguments often degenerated into a subtle, or not so subtle, academic name-calling. But two distinct groups did emerge SIX THOUSAND LESSONS During these years of travel, my understanding of what diversity means has changed. I began with an intuition, that the world was, from place to place and from culture to culture, far more different than I had been led to believe. Later, I began to understand that to ignore these differences was not simply insensitive but unjust and perilous. EVERTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT JAPANESE WOOD SPECIES AND Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan by Mechtild Mertz. Otsu: Kaiseisha Press, 220 pp., ¥6,090. hile reading Mechtild Mertz’s Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan my initial reaction was visceral and immediate: why wasn’t a book like this available much earlier? For the past 30 years, my own experiences with Japanese woodworking jargon never seemed to move beyond an TRANSLATING A CLASSIC: THE PILLOW BOOK, BY SEI SHÔNAGON The Pillow Book is an extreme example of a work that has lived past its time, and attained the deathless status that writers dream of as they labour over their page or screen, transmuting their moment into moment-transcending language. Sei Shônagon, who may well have allowed herself such a dream from time to time as her brush moved over the page, despite the fact that what she was writingA RARE PLEASURE
The few translations that do exist of particular haiku poets have focused on male poets such as Basho, Shiki and Issa. For these reasons alone, readers should welcome the translation of the work of a premiere Japanese woman poet artist-calligrapher, Kaga-no-Chiyo. BIZEN'S PAST AND PRESENT AT THE MIHO With warm ochre blushes and the subtle textures of exposed clay, the ceramic style born out of Okayama prefecture’s Bizen is humble while retaining potential for visceral expression. The Fall show at the Miho Museum in Shiga prefecture, “Bizen: From Earth and Fire, Exquisite Forms,” running from September 14th through December 15th represents a rare occasion to view a diverse showing of ABOUT US| KYOTO JOURNAL Founded in 1987, Kyoto Journal (KJ) is an award-winning, volunteer-driven quarterly magazine presenting thought-provoking cultural and historical insights from Kyoto, Japan and all of Asia. Now the longest-established independent English publication in Japan, our interdisciplinary approach, high standards of journalism and stunning design have brought us several international independentpress
SHOP | KYOTO JOURNAL Shop the latest print and digital editions of Kyoto Journal, and subscribe to save up to 60% on shipping and subsequent issues. NATURE AND CULTURE IN JAPAN An Example of a Mindscape unisaki is the name of a volcanic peninsula jutting out of the north-eastern corner of the Island of Kyushu. It is one of the most beautiful natural configurations of Japan, made up of a volcano which has a double peak and therefore receives the name of Futagoyama: “The Twin Mount.” SIX THOUSAND LESSONS During these years of travel, my understanding of what diversity means has changed. I began with an intuition, that the world was, from place to place and from culture to culture, far more different than I had been led to believe. Later, I began to understand that to ignore these differences was not simply insensitive but unjust and perilous. RE-DE-SIGNING PEOPLE ”People signs,“ seemingly inoffensive, utilitarian directives, guide us along daily routes and routines in Asia and everywhere else. And like most codes inundating the BIRTH & DEATH OF EACH MOMENT Japanese haiku, the simple three-line form of poetry, is now the world’s most popular poetic form. Since it first became known in the West one hundred yearsSHINTO SCHOLAR
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EVERTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT JAPANESE WOOD SPECIES AND Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan by Mechtild Mertz. Otsu: Kaiseisha Press, 220 pp., ¥6,090. hile reading Mechtild Mertz’s Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan my initial reaction was visceral and immediate: why wasn’t a book like this available much earlier? For the past 30 years, my own experiences with Japanese woodworking jargon never seemed to move beyond an SYNTHETIC DREAMS: THE ART OF MARIKO MORI One of Mori’s early self-portraits, Birth of a Star (1995), depicts a teen rocker with spiky violet hair, dressed in pop music fashion. It’s a silly, colorful work that surprises with sexual undertones. The power of Birth of a Star is the way the viewer is both put off and seduced by Mori’s ambiguousness. Moreover, it is a self-proclaimed prediction of her own success, as if somehow Mori LISTENING TO VEGETABLES: THE ART OF TANAHASHI TOSHIO trip to Kyoto is said to be incomplete without sampling its famous kaiseki cuisine, a sumptuous multi-course dinner which today can fetch up to $500 despite having originated in the demure tea ceremony.Less well-known but of similarly humble origins is shojin-ryori, the entirely vegetarian Buddhist cuisine that was first introduced to Kyoto monasteries from China in the 7th and 8th centuries.KYOTO JOURNAL
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Kyoto Journal is an award-winning quarterly English magazine founded in Kyoto, Japan, presenting cultural insights from all of Asia since1987.
JAPANESE COURTYARD GARDENS The word tsubo itself is very interesting (niwa simply means garden) and gives a clear insight into the meaning of the garden and its potential. One meaning of tsubo (written 坪) is: an area equal to two tatami mats or about 3.3 square meters. Most tsubo gardens are small, some only a few square meters, many larger, but the implication of this definition is that the tsubo garden is ‘very UNCOVERING JAPANESE GARDENS OUTSIDE OF JAPAN Portland’s Japanese-style garden was designed in 1963, a little after Shofuso. Portland Mayor Terry Schrunk and numerous residents were inspired to build the garden on the site of an old zoo, bringing to life this section of Washington Park once again. THE ART OF TRANSLATION A number of years ago several of our Japanese-related journals carried an ongoing debate on the art or techniques of translating the prose literature of Japan. Some of these manifestos and arguments often degenerated into a subtle, or not so subtle, academic name-calling. But two distinct groups did emergeKYOTOJOURNAL.ORG
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BIZEN'S PAST AND PRESENT AT THE MIHO With warm ochre blushes and the subtle textures of exposed clay, the ceramic style born out of Okayama prefecture’s Bizen is humble while retaining potential for visceral expression. The Fall show at the Miho Museum in Shiga prefecture, “Bizen: From Earth and Fire, Exquisite Forms,” running from September 14th through December 15th represents a rare occasion to view a diverse showing ofA RARE PLEASURE
The few translations that do exist of particular haiku poets have focused on male poets such as Basho, Shiki and Issa. For these reasons alone, readers should welcome the translation of the work of a premiere Japanese woman poet artist-calligrapher, Kaga-no-Chiyo. CLARITY, COMPASSION, PEACE SYNTHETIC DREAMS: THE ART OF MARIKO MORI One of Mori’s early self-portraits, Birth of a Star (1995), depicts a teen rocker with spiky violet hair, dressed in pop music fashion. It’s a silly, colorful work that surprises with sexual undertones. The power of Birth of a Star is the way the viewer is both put off and seduced by Mori’s ambiguousness. Moreover, it is a self-proclaimed prediction of her own success, as if somehow Mori EVERTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT JAPANESE WOOD SPECIES AND Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan by Mechtild Mertz. Otsu: Kaiseisha Press, 220 pp., ¥6,090. hile reading Mechtild Mertz’s Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan my initial reaction was visceral and immediate: why wasn’t a book like this available much earlier? For the past 30 years, my own experiences with Japanese woodworking jargon never seemed to move beyond an SHOP | KYOTO JOURNAL Shop the latest print and digital editions of Kyoto Journal, and subscribe to save up to 60% on shipping and subsequent issues. ABOUT US| KYOTO JOURNAL Founded in 1987, Kyoto Journal (KJ) is an award-winning, volunteer-driven quarterly magazine presenting thought-provoking cultural and historical insights from Kyoto, Japan and all of Asia. Now the longest-established independent English publication in Japan, our interdisciplinary approach, high standards of journalism and stunning design have brought us several international independentpress
BECOME A CONTRIBUTOR “Every issue of the Kyoto Journal is like a beautiful paperbound bookthe most beautifully and straightforwardly designed magazine aroundIt has been around for about two decades, and no writers or artists are ever paid for their contributions, making it one of the most consistently high-quality “open source” publicationsanywhere.”
KYOTO JOURNAL ISSUE 98: MA (DIGITAL) For much of this year, a large part of the world’s population has been living in a dislocated space and time-frame, detached from familiar former daily realities but not yet transitioned into an alternative future.. For this issue of Kyoto Journal we felt it might be useful to explore the Japanese time-space concept of “ ma ”—a measurement of space or an interval—empty, yet never SIX THOUSAND LESSONS During these years of travel, my understanding of what diversity means has changed. I began with an intuition, that the world was, from place to place and from culture to culture, far more different than I had been led to believe. Later, I began to understand that to ignore these differences was not simply insensitive but unjust and perilous. KIRO: CARVING OUT THE FUTURE OF HAKONE YOSEGI MARQUETRY Kyoto Journal x Nihon Ichiban. The name of Kiro, a workshop specializing in Hakone yosegi marquetry, rendered using the kanji characters for “wood” and “path,” seems fitting for an art form that has seen remarkable innovation over generations and whose artisans continue to forge a path forward into the future.. Hakone yosegi originated in the picturesque Hatajuku district, perched on EVERTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT JAPANESE WOOD SPECIES AND Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan by Mechtild Mertz. Otsu: Kaiseisha Press, 220 pp., ¥6,090. hile reading Mechtild Mertz’s Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan my initial reaction was visceral and immediate: why wasn’t a book like this available much earlier? For the past 30 years, my own experiences with Japanese woodworking jargon never seemed to move beyond an SYNTHETIC DREAMS: THE ART OF MARIKO MORI One of Mori’s early self-portraits, Birth of a Star (1995), depicts a teen rocker with spiky violet hair, dressed in pop music fashion. It’s a silly, colorful work that surprises with sexual undertones. The power of Birth of a Star is the way the viewer is both put off and seduced by Mori’s ambiguousness. Moreover, it is a self-proclaimed prediction of her own success, as if somehow Mori BIRTH & DEATH OF EACH MOMENT Japanese haiku, the simple three-line form of poetry, is now the world’s most popular poetic form. Since it first became known in the West one hundred years HOST CLUBS | KYOTO JOURNAL Later, one of them approached me. He stopped and stood close by me, slightly sideways. With the same smirk I had seen a moment ago on several faces, his eyes moved unhurriedly up and down my body, from my face to my legs, which suddenly felt vulnerably exposed underneath myKYOTO JOURNAL
Kyoto Journal is an award-winning quarterly English magazine founded in Kyoto, Japan, presenting cultural insights from all of Asia since1987.
SHOP | KYOTO JOURNAL Kyoto Journal, a non-profit quarterly established in 1987, reaches far beyond Japan's ancient capital to be your gateway to understanding and appreciating the lifestyles, cultures and societies of Asia. Shop over 50 past issues, dating from 1987 to 2019. TIP: Use the dropdown on the right to view products in order of date of release or by price. BECOME A CONTRIBUTOR THE ART OF TRANSLATION The Art of Translation. number of years ago several of our Japanese-related journals carried an ongoing debate on the art or techniques of translating the prose literature of Japan. Some of these manifestos and arguments often degenerated into a subtle, or not so subtle, academic name-calling. But two distinct groups did emerge. JAPANESE COURTYARD GARDENS The word tsubo itself is very interesting (niwa simply means garden) and gives a clear insight into the meaning of the garden and its potential. One meaning of tsubo (written 坪) is: an area equal to two tatami mats or about 3.3 square meters. Most tsubo gardens are small, some only a few square meters, many larger, but the implication of this definition is that the tsubo garden is ‘very SIX THOUSAND LESSONS The human epistemologies embedded in the six thousand spoken ways of knowing God compare with the six thousand ways a river can plunge from high country to low, or the six thousand ways dawn might break over the Atacama, the Tanami, the Gobi, or the Sonora. Anyone determined to see so many of the world’s disparate faces might easily succumbA RARE PLEASURE
Relatively unknown and overlooked by scholars outside of Japan, Kaga-no-Chiyo (1703-1775), a poet artist-calligrapher, perhaps with this book can join in familiarity the likes of Shikibu Murasaki, Ono no Komachi and Yosano Akiko. The book— Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master —held in both hands, feels generous. Indeed, the design allows forone
BIZEN'S PAST AND PRESENT AT THE MIHO Bizen’s Past and Present at the Miho. With warm ochre blushes and the subtle textures of exposed clay, the ceramic style born out of Okayama prefecture’s Bizen is humble while retaining potential for visceral expression. The Fall show at the Miho Museum in Shiga prefecture, “ Bizen: From Earth and Fire, Exquisite Forms ,”running from
TRANSLATING A CLASSIC: THE PILLOW BOOK, BY SEI SHÔNAGON The Pillow Book is an extreme example of a work that has lived past its time, and attained the deathless status that writers dream of as they labour over their page or screen, transmuting their moment into moment-transcending language. Sei Shônagon, who may well have allowed herself such a dream from time to time as her brush moved over the page, despite the fact that what she was writing EVERTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT JAPANESE WOOD SPECIES AND Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan by Mechtild Mertz. Otsu: Kaiseisha Press, 220 pp., ¥6,090. hile reading Mechtild Mertz’s Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan my initial reaction was visceral and immediate: why wasn’t a book like this available much earlier? For the past 30 years, my own experiences with Japanese woodworking jargon never seemed to move beyond anKYOTO JOURNAL
Kyoto Journal is an award-winning quarterly English magazine founded in Kyoto, Japan, presenting cultural insights from all of Asia since1987.
SHOP | KYOTO JOURNAL Kyoto Journal, a non-profit quarterly established in 1987, reaches far beyond Japan's ancient capital to be your gateway to understanding and appreciating the lifestyles, cultures and societies of Asia. Shop over 50 past issues, dating from 1987 to 2019. TIP: Use the dropdown on the right to view products in order of date of release or by price. BECOME A CONTRIBUTOR THE ART OF TRANSLATION The Art of Translation. number of years ago several of our Japanese-related journals carried an ongoing debate on the art or techniques of translating the prose literature of Japan. Some of these manifestos and arguments often degenerated into a subtle, or not so subtle, academic name-calling. But two distinct groups did emerge. JAPANESE COURTYARD GARDENS The word tsubo itself is very interesting (niwa simply means garden) and gives a clear insight into the meaning of the garden and its potential. One meaning of tsubo (written 坪) is: an area equal to two tatami mats or about 3.3 square meters. Most tsubo gardens are small, some only a few square meters, many larger, but the implication of this definition is that the tsubo garden is ‘very SIX THOUSAND LESSONS The human epistemologies embedded in the six thousand spoken ways of knowing God compare with the six thousand ways a river can plunge from high country to low, or the six thousand ways dawn might break over the Atacama, the Tanami, the Gobi, or the Sonora. Anyone determined to see so many of the world’s disparate faces might easily succumbA RARE PLEASURE
Relatively unknown and overlooked by scholars outside of Japan, Kaga-no-Chiyo (1703-1775), a poet artist-calligrapher, perhaps with this book can join in familiarity the likes of Shikibu Murasaki, Ono no Komachi and Yosano Akiko. The book— Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master —held in both hands, feels generous. Indeed, the design allows forone
BIZEN'S PAST AND PRESENT AT THE MIHO Bizen’s Past and Present at the Miho. With warm ochre blushes and the subtle textures of exposed clay, the ceramic style born out of Okayama prefecture’s Bizen is humble while retaining potential for visceral expression. The Fall show at the Miho Museum in Shiga prefecture, “ Bizen: From Earth and Fire, Exquisite Forms ,”running from
TRANSLATING A CLASSIC: THE PILLOW BOOK, BY SEI SHÔNAGON The Pillow Book is an extreme example of a work that has lived past its time, and attained the deathless status that writers dream of as they labour over their page or screen, transmuting their moment into moment-transcending language. Sei Shônagon, who may well have allowed herself such a dream from time to time as her brush moved over the page, despite the fact that what she was writing EVERTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT JAPANESE WOOD SPECIES AND Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan by Mechtild Mertz. Otsu: Kaiseisha Press, 220 pp., ¥6,090. hile reading Mechtild Mertz’s Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan my initial reaction was visceral and immediate: why wasn’t a book like this available much earlier? For the past 30 years, my own experiences with Japanese woodworking jargon never seemed to move beyond an ABOUT US| KYOTO JOURNAL Founded in 1987, Kyoto Journal (KJ) is an award-winning, volunteer-driven quarterly magazine presenting thought-provoking cultural and historical insights from Kyoto, Japan and all of Asia. Now the longest-established independent English publication in Japan, our interdisciplinary approach, high standards of journalism and stunning design have brought us several international independentpress
CURRENT ISSUE 98: MA This digital issue of Kyoto Journal looks at the phenomenon of travel, whether as a pursuit of a deeper understanding of the world’s diversity, as a plunge into the unknown, or a deliberate immersion in a known unknown. We also wanted to reconsider how travel is reported or discussed in travelogues or online, and to re-imagine post-COVIDtravel.
NATURE AND CULTURE IN JAPAN An Example of a Mindscape unisaki is the name of a volcanic peninsula jutting out of the north-eastern corner of the Island of Kyushu. It is one of the most beautiful natural configurations of Japan, made up of a volcano which has a double peak and therefore receives the name of Futagoyama: “The Twin Mount.”A RARE PLEASURE
Relatively unknown and overlooked by scholars outside of Japan, Kaga-no-Chiyo (1703-1775), a poet artist-calligrapher, perhaps with this book can join in familiarity the likes of Shikibu Murasaki, Ono no Komachi and Yosano Akiko. The book— Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master —held in both hands, feels generous. Indeed, the design allows forone
RE-DE-SIGNING PEOPLE ”People signs,“ seemingly inoffensive, utilitarian directives, guide us along daily routes and routines in Asia and everywhere else. And like most codes inundating the BIRTH & DEATH OF EACH MOMENT The Tibetan Book of the Dead talks about these momentary bardo states, states of transition from one realm to another, from life to death to re-birth. These states of transition also exist in each moment of our life when we are alive on this earth, each moment containing a mini-birth and mini-death. One result of the shock of September 11,2001
EVERTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT JAPANESE WOOD SPECIES AND Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan by Mechtild Mertz. Otsu: Kaiseisha Press, 220 pp., ¥6,090. hile reading Mechtild Mertz’s Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan my initial reaction was visceral and immediate: why wasn’t a book like this available much earlier? For the past 30 years, my own experiences with Japanese woodworking jargon never seemed to move beyond anSHINTO SCHOLAR
Shinto — “the way of the kami”— is rooted deeply in pre-historic Japanese religious and agricultural practices. The term kami can refer to Japanese mythological deities, but also can mean divinity manifested in natural objects, places, animals, and even human beings. Shinto rituals and celebrations stress harmony betweendeities, man
SHOKUNIN AND DEVOTION The Japanese word ‘shokunin’ is often translated as ‘artisan’ in English. Although it isn’t incorrect by definition, the translation seems to lose the spirit of what a shokunin does. I’m reminded of this every time I explain the works and lives of shokunin to an overseas audience, which happens to be what I SYNTHETIC DREAMS: THE ART OF MARIKO MORI Mariko Mori broke into the international art scene with her large-scale self-portrait photography in the mid-1990s. Not limiting herself within this medium she adopted multi-media techniques and has since created a mélange of installations, video, and performance that incorporate high-fashion, sci-fi pop, traditional Japanese rituals, Shinto Onmyodo spirituality, and music.KYOTO JOURNAL
Kyoto Journal is an award-winning quarterly English magazine founded in Kyoto, Japan, presenting cultural insights from all of Asia since1987.
ABOUT US| KYOTO JOURNAL Founded in 1987, Kyoto Journal (KJ) is an award-winning, volunteer-driven quarterly magazine presenting thought-provoking cultural and historical insights from Kyoto, Japan and all of Asia. Now the longest-established independent English publication in Japan, our interdisciplinary approach, high standards of journalism and stunning design have brought us several international independentpress
CURRENT ISSUE 98: MA This digital issue of Kyoto Journal looks at the phenomenon of travel, whether as a pursuit of a deeper understanding of the world’s diversity, as a plunge into the unknown, or a deliberate immersion in a known unknown. We also wanted to reconsider how travel is reported or discussed in travelogues or online, and to re-imagine post-COVIDtravel.
THE ART OF TRANSLATION A number of years ago several of our Japanese-related journals carried an ongoing debate on the art or techniques of translating the prose literature of Japan. Some of these manifestos and arguments often degenerated into a subtle, or not so subtle, academic name-calling. But two distinct groups did emergeA RARE PLEASURE
Relatively unknown and overlooked by scholars outside of Japan, Kaga-no-Chiyo (1703-1775), a poet artist-calligrapher, perhaps with this book can join in familiarity the likes of Shikibu Murasaki, Ono no Komachi and Yosano Akiko. The book— Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master —held in both hands, feels generous. Indeed, the design allows forone
JAPANESE COURTYARD GARDENS The word tsubo itself is very interesting (niwa simply means garden) and gives a clear insight into the meaning of the garden and its potential. One meaning of tsubo (written 坪) is: an area equal to two tatami mats or about 3.3 square meters. Most tsubo gardens are small, some only a few square meters, many larger, but the implication of this definition is that the tsubo garden is ‘very ON LEARNING POTTERY IN JAPAN On Learning Pottery in Japan. For foreigners wishing to study traditional arts in Japan there is often a wide and dangerous gap between their romantic notions of apprenticeship and the hard reality they find when they finally get here. Ruth Huebner, a potter and computer programer now living in rural Maryland, recollects her threevisits to
EVERTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT JAPANESE WOOD SPECIES ANDJAPANESE WOOD TYPESJAPAN WOOD PROJECTSJAPANESE HARDWOOD TYPES Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan by Mechtild Mertz. Otsu: Kaiseisha Press, 220 pp., ¥6,090. hile reading Mechtild Mertz’s Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan my initial reaction was visceral and immediate: why wasn’t a book like this available much earlier? For the past 30 years, my own experiences with Japanese woodworking jargon never seemed to move beyond an BIRTH & DEATH OF EACH MOMENT The Tibetan Book of the Dead talks about these momentary bardo states, states of transition from one realm to another, from life to death to re-birth. These states of transition also exist in each moment of our life when we are alive on this earth, each moment containing a mini-birth and mini-death. One result of the shock of September 11,2001
LISTENING TO VEGETABLES: THE ART OF TANAHASHI TOSHIO trip to Kyoto is said to be incomplete without sampling its famous kaiseki cuisine, a sumptuous multi-course dinner which today can fetch up to $500 despite having originated in the demure tea ceremony.Less well-known but of similarly humble origins is shojin-ryori, the entirely vegetarian Buddhist cuisine that was first introduced to Kyoto monasteries from China in the 7th and 8th centuries.KYOTO JOURNAL
Kyoto Journal is an award-winning quarterly English magazine founded in Kyoto, Japan, presenting cultural insights from all of Asia since1987.
ABOUT US| KYOTO JOURNAL Founded in 1987, Kyoto Journal (KJ) is an award-winning, volunteer-driven quarterly magazine presenting thought-provoking cultural and historical insights from Kyoto, Japan and all of Asia. Now the longest-established independent English publication in Japan, our interdisciplinary approach, high standards of journalism and stunning design have brought us several international independentpress
CURRENT ISSUE 98: MA This digital issue of Kyoto Journal looks at the phenomenon of travel, whether as a pursuit of a deeper understanding of the world’s diversity, as a plunge into the unknown, or a deliberate immersion in a known unknown. We also wanted to reconsider how travel is reported or discussed in travelogues or online, and to re-imagine post-COVIDtravel.
THE ART OF TRANSLATION A number of years ago several of our Japanese-related journals carried an ongoing debate on the art or techniques of translating the prose literature of Japan. Some of these manifestos and arguments often degenerated into a subtle, or not so subtle, academic name-calling. But two distinct groups did emergeA RARE PLEASURE
Relatively unknown and overlooked by scholars outside of Japan, Kaga-no-Chiyo (1703-1775), a poet artist-calligrapher, perhaps with this book can join in familiarity the likes of Shikibu Murasaki, Ono no Komachi and Yosano Akiko. The book— Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master —held in both hands, feels generous. Indeed, the design allows forone
JAPANESE COURTYARD GARDENS The word tsubo itself is very interesting (niwa simply means garden) and gives a clear insight into the meaning of the garden and its potential. One meaning of tsubo (written 坪) is: an area equal to two tatami mats or about 3.3 square meters. Most tsubo gardens are small, some only a few square meters, many larger, but the implication of this definition is that the tsubo garden is ‘very ON LEARNING POTTERY IN JAPAN On Learning Pottery in Japan. For foreigners wishing to study traditional arts in Japan there is often a wide and dangerous gap between their romantic notions of apprenticeship and the hard reality they find when they finally get here. Ruth Huebner, a potter and computer programer now living in rural Maryland, recollects her threevisits to
EVERTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT JAPANESE WOOD SPECIES ANDJAPANESE WOOD TYPESJAPAN WOOD PROJECTSJAPANESE HARDWOOD TYPES Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan by Mechtild Mertz. Otsu: Kaiseisha Press, 220 pp., ¥6,090. hile reading Mechtild Mertz’s Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan my initial reaction was visceral and immediate: why wasn’t a book like this available much earlier? For the past 30 years, my own experiences with Japanese woodworking jargon never seemed to move beyond an BIRTH & DEATH OF EACH MOMENT The Tibetan Book of the Dead talks about these momentary bardo states, states of transition from one realm to another, from life to death to re-birth. These states of transition also exist in each moment of our life when we are alive on this earth, each moment containing a mini-birth and mini-death. One result of the shock of September 11,2001
LISTENING TO VEGETABLES: THE ART OF TANAHASHI TOSHIO trip to Kyoto is said to be incomplete without sampling its famous kaiseki cuisine, a sumptuous multi-course dinner which today can fetch up to $500 despite having originated in the demure tea ceremony.Less well-known but of similarly humble origins is shojin-ryori, the entirely vegetarian Buddhist cuisine that was first introduced to Kyoto monasteries from China in the 7th and 8th centuries.EXPLORE THE JOURNAL
The name of Kiro, a workshop specializing in Hakone yosegi marquetry, rendered using the kanji characters for “wood” and “path,” seems fitting for an art form that has seen remarkable innovation over generations and whose artisans continue to forge a path forward into the future. INSIGHTS FROM ASIA. ABOUT US| KYOTO JOURNAL Founded in 1987, Kyoto Journal (KJ) is an award-winning, volunteer-driven quarterly magazine presenting thought-provoking cultural and historical insights from Kyoto, Japan and all of Asia. Now the longest-established independent English publication in Japan, our interdisciplinary approach, high standards of journalism and stunning design have brought us several international independentpress
SHOP | KYOTO JOURNAL Kyoto Journal, a non-profit quarterly established in 1987, reaches far beyond Japan's ancient capital to be your gateway to understanding and appreciating the lifestyles, cultures and societies of Asia. Shop over 50 past issues, dating from 1987 to 2019. TIP: Use the dropdown on the right to view products in order of date of release or by price. JAPANESE COURTYARD GARDENS The word tsubo itself is very interesting (niwa simply means garden) and gives a clear insight into the meaning of the garden and its potential. One meaning of tsubo (written 坪) is: an area equal to two tatami mats or about 3.3 square meters. Most tsubo gardens are small, some only a few square meters, many larger, but the implication of this definition is that the tsubo garden is ‘very LISTENING TO VEGETABLES: THE ART OF TANAHASHI TOSHIO trip to Kyoto is said to be incomplete without sampling its famous kaiseki cuisine, a sumptuous multi-course dinner which today can fetch up to $500 despite having originated in the demure tea ceremony.Less well-known but of similarly humble origins is shojin-ryori, the entirely vegetarian Buddhist cuisine that was first introduced to Kyoto monasteries from China in the 7th and 8th centuries. TRANSLATING A CLASSIC: THE PILLOW BOOK, BY SEI SHÔNAGON The Pillow Book is an extreme example of a work that has lived past its time, and attained the deathless status that writers dream of as they labour over their page or screen, transmuting their moment into moment-transcending language. Sei Shônagon, who may well have allowed herself such a dream from time to time as her brush moved over the page, despite the fact that what she was writing BIRTH & DEATH OF EACH MOMENT The Tibetan Book of the Dead talks about these momentary bardo states, states of transition from one realm to another, from life to death to re-birth. These states of transition also exist in each moment of our life when we are alive on this earth, each moment containing a mini-birth and mini-death. One result of the shock of September 11,2001
MA: PLACE, SPACE, VOID 虎の間 (tora-no-ma) The Tiger Room (literally, place of tigers) is the name of a room in the abbot’s quarters at Nanzenji in Kyoto. The dominant decorative motif on the sliding doors becomes the qualifier of the entire space, a common custom in mansions, castles, temples and present-day hotel ballrooms. MEET THE KYOTO JOURNAL TEAM: MINECHIKA ENDO Meet the KJ Team: Minechika Endo. September 10, 2018. Our series of interviews with KJ’s super volunteers continues. This time Lisa Nilsson speaks to Kobe-based Minechika Endo. KJ has been sending Minechika on photographic assignments around Kyoto for new issue releases, to the neighbouring prefecture of Shiga, and up to ToyamaCity.
THE WISDOM OF SHŌJIN COOKING The word “shōjin” consists of two characters—shō 精, to “purify,” and jin 進, the word for “advance.” In other words, “purifying the heart with real food enables us to move toward peace and clarity.” Ryōri 料理 commonly is translated as “cooking,” but on a deeper and broader level the characters also mean “measuring truth.”KYOTO JOURNAL
Kyoto Journal is an award-winning quarterly English magazine founded in Kyoto, Japan, presenting cultural insights from all of Asia since1987.
ABOUT US| KYOTO JOURNAL Founded in 1987, Kyoto Journal (KJ) is an award-winning, volunteer-driven quarterly magazine presenting thought-provoking cultural and historical insights from Kyoto, Japan and all of Asia. Now the longest-established independent English publication in Japan, our interdisciplinary approach, high standards of journalism and stunning design have brought us several international independentpress
CURRENT ISSUE 98: MA This digital issue of Kyoto Journal looks at the phenomenon of travel, whether as a pursuit of a deeper understanding of the world’s diversity, as a plunge into the unknown, or a deliberate immersion in a known unknown. We also wanted to reconsider how travel is reported or discussed in travelogues or online, and to re-imagine post-COVIDtravel.
THE ART OF TRANSLATION A number of years ago several of our Japanese-related journals carried an ongoing debate on the art or techniques of translating the prose literature of Japan. Some of these manifestos and arguments often degenerated into a subtle, or not so subtle, academic name-calling. But two distinct groups did emergeA RARE PLEASURE
Relatively unknown and overlooked by scholars outside of Japan, Kaga-no-Chiyo (1703-1775), a poet artist-calligrapher, perhaps with this book can join in familiarity the likes of Shikibu Murasaki, Ono no Komachi and Yosano Akiko. The book— Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master —held in both hands, feels generous. Indeed, the design allows forone
JAPANESE COURTYARD GARDENS The word tsubo itself is very interesting (niwa simply means garden) and gives a clear insight into the meaning of the garden and its potential. One meaning of tsubo (written 坪) is: an area equal to two tatami mats or about 3.3 square meters. Most tsubo gardens are small, some only a few square meters, many larger, but the implication of this definition is that the tsubo garden is ‘very ON LEARNING POTTERY IN JAPAN On Learning Pottery in Japan. For foreigners wishing to study traditional arts in Japan there is often a wide and dangerous gap between their romantic notions of apprenticeship and the hard reality they find when they finally get here. Ruth Huebner, a potter and computer programer now living in rural Maryland, recollects her threevisits to
EVERTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT JAPANESE WOOD SPECIES ANDJAPANESE WOOD TYPESJAPAN WOOD PROJECTSJAPANESE HARDWOOD TYPES Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan by Mechtild Mertz. Otsu: Kaiseisha Press, 220 pp., ¥6,090. hile reading Mechtild Mertz’s Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan my initial reaction was visceral and immediate: why wasn’t a book like this available much earlier? For the past 30 years, my own experiences with Japanese woodworking jargon never seemed to move beyond an BIRTH & DEATH OF EACH MOMENT The Tibetan Book of the Dead talks about these momentary bardo states, states of transition from one realm to another, from life to death to re-birth. These states of transition also exist in each moment of our life when we are alive on this earth, each moment containing a mini-birth and mini-death. One result of the shock of September 11,2001
LISTENING TO VEGETABLES: THE ART OF TANAHASHI TOSHIO trip to Kyoto is said to be incomplete without sampling its famous kaiseki cuisine, a sumptuous multi-course dinner which today can fetch up to $500 despite having originated in the demure tea ceremony.Less well-known but of similarly humble origins is shojin-ryori, the entirely vegetarian Buddhist cuisine that was first introduced to Kyoto monasteries from China in the 7th and 8th centuries.KYOTO JOURNAL
Kyoto Journal is an award-winning quarterly English magazine founded in Kyoto, Japan, presenting cultural insights from all of Asia since1987.
ABOUT US| KYOTO JOURNAL Founded in 1987, Kyoto Journal (KJ) is an award-winning, volunteer-driven quarterly magazine presenting thought-provoking cultural and historical insights from Kyoto, Japan and all of Asia. Now the longest-established independent English publication in Japan, our interdisciplinary approach, high standards of journalism and stunning design have brought us several international independentpress
CURRENT ISSUE 98: MA This digital issue of Kyoto Journal looks at the phenomenon of travel, whether as a pursuit of a deeper understanding of the world’s diversity, as a plunge into the unknown, or a deliberate immersion in a known unknown. We also wanted to reconsider how travel is reported or discussed in travelogues or online, and to re-imagine post-COVIDtravel.
THE ART OF TRANSLATION A number of years ago several of our Japanese-related journals carried an ongoing debate on the art or techniques of translating the prose literature of Japan. Some of these manifestos and arguments often degenerated into a subtle, or not so subtle, academic name-calling. But two distinct groups did emergeA RARE PLEASURE
Relatively unknown and overlooked by scholars outside of Japan, Kaga-no-Chiyo (1703-1775), a poet artist-calligrapher, perhaps with this book can join in familiarity the likes of Shikibu Murasaki, Ono no Komachi and Yosano Akiko. The book— Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master —held in both hands, feels generous. Indeed, the design allows forone
JAPANESE COURTYARD GARDENS The word tsubo itself is very interesting (niwa simply means garden) and gives a clear insight into the meaning of the garden and its potential. One meaning of tsubo (written 坪) is: an area equal to two tatami mats or about 3.3 square meters. Most tsubo gardens are small, some only a few square meters, many larger, but the implication of this definition is that the tsubo garden is ‘very ON LEARNING POTTERY IN JAPAN On Learning Pottery in Japan. For foreigners wishing to study traditional arts in Japan there is often a wide and dangerous gap between their romantic notions of apprenticeship and the hard reality they find when they finally get here. Ruth Huebner, a potter and computer programer now living in rural Maryland, recollects her threevisits to
EVERTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT JAPANESE WOOD SPECIES ANDJAPANESE WOOD TYPESJAPAN WOOD PROJECTSJAPANESE HARDWOOD TYPES Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan by Mechtild Mertz. Otsu: Kaiseisha Press, 220 pp., ¥6,090. hile reading Mechtild Mertz’s Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan my initial reaction was visceral and immediate: why wasn’t a book like this available much earlier? For the past 30 years, my own experiences with Japanese woodworking jargon never seemed to move beyond an BIRTH & DEATH OF EACH MOMENT The Tibetan Book of the Dead talks about these momentary bardo states, states of transition from one realm to another, from life to death to re-birth. These states of transition also exist in each moment of our life when we are alive on this earth, each moment containing a mini-birth and mini-death. One result of the shock of September 11,2001
LISTENING TO VEGETABLES: THE ART OF TANAHASHI TOSHIO trip to Kyoto is said to be incomplete without sampling its famous kaiseki cuisine, a sumptuous multi-course dinner which today can fetch up to $500 despite having originated in the demure tea ceremony.Less well-known but of similarly humble origins is shojin-ryori, the entirely vegetarian Buddhist cuisine that was first introduced to Kyoto monasteries from China in the 7th and 8th centuries.EXPLORE THE JOURNAL
The name of Kiro, a workshop specializing in Hakone yosegi marquetry, rendered using the kanji characters for “wood” and “path,” seems fitting for an art form that has seen remarkable innovation over generations and whose artisans continue to forge a path forward into the future. INSIGHTS FROM ASIA. ABOUT US| KYOTO JOURNAL Founded in 1987, Kyoto Journal (KJ) is an award-winning, volunteer-driven quarterly magazine presenting thought-provoking cultural and historical insights from Kyoto, Japan and all of Asia. Now the longest-established independent English publication in Japan, our interdisciplinary approach, high standards of journalism and stunning design have brought us several international independentpress
SHOP | KYOTO JOURNAL Kyoto Journal, a non-profit quarterly established in 1987, reaches far beyond Japan's ancient capital to be your gateway to understanding and appreciating the lifestyles, cultures and societies of Asia. Shop over 50 past issues, dating from 1987 to 2019. TIP: Use the dropdown on the right to view products in order of date of release or by price. JAPANESE COURTYARD GARDENS The word tsubo itself is very interesting (niwa simply means garden) and gives a clear insight into the meaning of the garden and its potential. One meaning of tsubo (written 坪) is: an area equal to two tatami mats or about 3.3 square meters. Most tsubo gardens are small, some only a few square meters, many larger, but the implication of this definition is that the tsubo garden is ‘very LISTENING TO VEGETABLES: THE ART OF TANAHASHI TOSHIO trip to Kyoto is said to be incomplete without sampling its famous kaiseki cuisine, a sumptuous multi-course dinner which today can fetch up to $500 despite having originated in the demure tea ceremony.Less well-known but of similarly humble origins is shojin-ryori, the entirely vegetarian Buddhist cuisine that was first introduced to Kyoto monasteries from China in the 7th and 8th centuries. TRANSLATING A CLASSIC: THE PILLOW BOOK, BY SEI SHÔNAGON The Pillow Book is an extreme example of a work that has lived past its time, and attained the deathless status that writers dream of as they labour over their page or screen, transmuting their moment into moment-transcending language. Sei Shônagon, who may well have allowed herself such a dream from time to time as her brush moved over the page, despite the fact that what she was writing BIRTH & DEATH OF EACH MOMENT The Tibetan Book of the Dead talks about these momentary bardo states, states of transition from one realm to another, from life to death to re-birth. These states of transition also exist in each moment of our life when we are alive on this earth, each moment containing a mini-birth and mini-death. One result of the shock of September 11,2001
MA: PLACE, SPACE, VOID 虎の間 (tora-no-ma) The Tiger Room (literally, place of tigers) is the name of a room in the abbot’s quarters at Nanzenji in Kyoto. The dominant decorative motif on the sliding doors becomes the qualifier of the entire space, a common custom in mansions, castles, temples and present-day hotel ballrooms. MEET THE KYOTO JOURNAL TEAM: MINECHIKA ENDO Meet the KJ Team: Minechika Endo. September 10, 2018. Our series of interviews with KJ’s super volunteers continues. This time Lisa Nilsson speaks to Kobe-based Minechika Endo. KJ has been sending Minechika on photographic assignments around Kyoto for new issue releases, to the neighbouring prefecture of Shiga, and up to ToyamaCity.
THE WISDOM OF SHŌJIN COOKING The word “shōjin” consists of two characters—shō 精, to “purify,” and jin 進, the word for “advance.” In other words, “purifying the heart with real food enables us to move toward peace and clarity.” Ryōri 料理 commonly is translated as “cooking,” but on a deeper and broader level the characters also mean “measuring truth.”KYOTO JOURNAL
Kyoto Journal is an award-winning quarterly English magazine founded in Kyoto, Japan, presenting cultural insights from all of Asia since1987.
ABOUT US| KYOTO JOURNAL Founded in 1987, Kyoto Journal (KJ) is an award-winning, volunteer-driven quarterly magazine presenting thought-provoking cultural and historical insights from Kyoto, Japan and all of Asia. Now the longest-established independent English publication in Japan, our interdisciplinary approach, high standards of journalism and stunning design have brought us several international independentpress
CURRENT ISSUE 98: MA This digital issue of Kyoto Journal looks at the phenomenon of travel, whether as a pursuit of a deeper understanding of the world’s diversity, as a plunge into the unknown, or a deliberate immersion in a known unknown. We also wanted to reconsider how travel is reported or discussed in travelogues or online, and to re-imagine post-COVIDtravel.
THE ART OF TRANSLATION A number of years ago several of our Japanese-related journals carried an ongoing debate on the art or techniques of translating the prose literature of Japan. Some of these manifestos and arguments often degenerated into a subtle, or not so subtle, academic name-calling. But two distinct groups did emergeA RARE PLEASURE
Relatively unknown and overlooked by scholars outside of Japan, Kaga-no-Chiyo (1703-1775), a poet artist-calligrapher, perhaps with this book can join in familiarity the likes of Shikibu Murasaki, Ono no Komachi and Yosano Akiko. The book— Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master —held in both hands, feels generous. Indeed, the design allows forone
JAPANESE COURTYARD GARDENS The word tsubo itself is very interesting (niwa simply means garden) and gives a clear insight into the meaning of the garden and its potential. One meaning of tsubo (written 坪) is: an area equal to two tatami mats or about 3.3 square meters. Most tsubo gardens are small, some only a few square meters, many larger, but the implication of this definition is that the tsubo garden is ‘very ON LEARNING POTTERY IN JAPAN On Learning Pottery in Japan. For foreigners wishing to study traditional arts in Japan there is often a wide and dangerous gap between their romantic notions of apprenticeship and the hard reality they find when they finally get here. Ruth Huebner, a potter and computer programer now living in rural Maryland, recollects her threevisits to
EVERTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT JAPANESE WOOD SPECIES ANDJAPANESE WOOD TYPESJAPAN WOOD PROJECTSJAPANESE HARDWOOD TYPES Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan by Mechtild Mertz. Otsu: Kaiseisha Press, 220 pp., ¥6,090. hile reading Mechtild Mertz’s Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan my initial reaction was visceral and immediate: why wasn’t a book like this available much earlier? For the past 30 years, my own experiences with Japanese woodworking jargon never seemed to move beyond an BIRTH & DEATH OF EACH MOMENT The Tibetan Book of the Dead talks about these momentary bardo states, states of transition from one realm to another, from life to death to re-birth. These states of transition also exist in each moment of our life when we are alive on this earth, each moment containing a mini-birth and mini-death. One result of the shock of September 11,2001
LISTENING TO VEGETABLES: THE ART OF TANAHASHI TOSHIO trip to Kyoto is said to be incomplete without sampling its famous kaiseki cuisine, a sumptuous multi-course dinner which today can fetch up to $500 despite having originated in the demure tea ceremony.Less well-known but of similarly humble origins is shojin-ryori, the entirely vegetarian Buddhist cuisine that was first introduced to Kyoto monasteries from China in the 7th and 8th centuries.KYOTO JOURNAL
Kyoto Journal is an award-winning quarterly English magazine founded in Kyoto, Japan, presenting cultural insights from all of Asia since1987.
ABOUT US| KYOTO JOURNAL Founded in 1987, Kyoto Journal (KJ) is an award-winning, volunteer-driven quarterly magazine presenting thought-provoking cultural and historical insights from Kyoto, Japan and all of Asia. Now the longest-established independent English publication in Japan, our interdisciplinary approach, high standards of journalism and stunning design have brought us several international independentpress
CURRENT ISSUE 98: MA This digital issue of Kyoto Journal looks at the phenomenon of travel, whether as a pursuit of a deeper understanding of the world’s diversity, as a plunge into the unknown, or a deliberate immersion in a known unknown. We also wanted to reconsider how travel is reported or discussed in travelogues or online, and to re-imagine post-COVIDtravel.
THE ART OF TRANSLATION A number of years ago several of our Japanese-related journals carried an ongoing debate on the art or techniques of translating the prose literature of Japan. Some of these manifestos and arguments often degenerated into a subtle, or not so subtle, academic name-calling. But two distinct groups did emergeA RARE PLEASURE
Relatively unknown and overlooked by scholars outside of Japan, Kaga-no-Chiyo (1703-1775), a poet artist-calligrapher, perhaps with this book can join in familiarity the likes of Shikibu Murasaki, Ono no Komachi and Yosano Akiko. The book— Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master —held in both hands, feels generous. Indeed, the design allows forone
JAPANESE COURTYARD GARDENS The word tsubo itself is very interesting (niwa simply means garden) and gives a clear insight into the meaning of the garden and its potential. One meaning of tsubo (written 坪) is: an area equal to two tatami mats or about 3.3 square meters. Most tsubo gardens are small, some only a few square meters, many larger, but the implication of this definition is that the tsubo garden is ‘very ON LEARNING POTTERY IN JAPAN On Learning Pottery in Japan. For foreigners wishing to study traditional arts in Japan there is often a wide and dangerous gap between their romantic notions of apprenticeship and the hard reality they find when they finally get here. Ruth Huebner, a potter and computer programer now living in rural Maryland, recollects her threevisits to
EVERTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT JAPANESE WOOD SPECIES ANDJAPANESE WOOD TYPESJAPAN WOOD PROJECTSJAPANESE HARDWOOD TYPES Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan by Mechtild Mertz. Otsu: Kaiseisha Press, 220 pp., ¥6,090. hile reading Mechtild Mertz’s Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan my initial reaction was visceral and immediate: why wasn’t a book like this available much earlier? For the past 30 years, my own experiences with Japanese woodworking jargon never seemed to move beyond an BIRTH & DEATH OF EACH MOMENT The Tibetan Book of the Dead talks about these momentary bardo states, states of transition from one realm to another, from life to death to re-birth. These states of transition also exist in each moment of our life when we are alive on this earth, each moment containing a mini-birth and mini-death. One result of the shock of September 11,2001
LISTENING TO VEGETABLES: THE ART OF TANAHASHI TOSHIO trip to Kyoto is said to be incomplete without sampling its famous kaiseki cuisine, a sumptuous multi-course dinner which today can fetch up to $500 despite having originated in the demure tea ceremony.Less well-known but of similarly humble origins is shojin-ryori, the entirely vegetarian Buddhist cuisine that was first introduced to Kyoto monasteries from China in the 7th and 8th centuries.EXPLORE THE JOURNAL
The name of Kiro, a workshop specializing in Hakone yosegi marquetry, rendered using the kanji characters for “wood” and “path,” seems fitting for an art form that has seen remarkable innovation over generations and whose artisans continue to forge a path forward into the future. INSIGHTS FROM ASIA. ABOUT US| KYOTO JOURNAL Founded in 1987, Kyoto Journal (KJ) is an award-winning, volunteer-driven quarterly magazine presenting thought-provoking cultural and historical insights from Kyoto, Japan and all of Asia. Now the longest-established independent English publication in Japan, our interdisciplinary approach, high standards of journalism and stunning design have brought us several international independentpress
SHOP | KYOTO JOURNAL Kyoto Journal, a non-profit quarterly established in 1987, reaches far beyond Japan's ancient capital to be your gateway to understanding and appreciating the lifestyles, cultures and societies of Asia. Shop over 50 past issues, dating from 1987 to 2019. TIP: Use the dropdown on the right to view products in order of date of release or by price. JAPANESE COURTYARD GARDENS The word tsubo itself is very interesting (niwa simply means garden) and gives a clear insight into the meaning of the garden and its potential. One meaning of tsubo (written 坪) is: an area equal to two tatami mats or about 3.3 square meters. Most tsubo gardens are small, some only a few square meters, many larger, but the implication of this definition is that the tsubo garden is ‘very LISTENING TO VEGETABLES: THE ART OF TANAHASHI TOSHIO trip to Kyoto is said to be incomplete without sampling its famous kaiseki cuisine, a sumptuous multi-course dinner which today can fetch up to $500 despite having originated in the demure tea ceremony.Less well-known but of similarly humble origins is shojin-ryori, the entirely vegetarian Buddhist cuisine that was first introduced to Kyoto monasteries from China in the 7th and 8th centuries. TRANSLATING A CLASSIC: THE PILLOW BOOK, BY SEI SHÔNAGON The Pillow Book is an extreme example of a work that has lived past its time, and attained the deathless status that writers dream of as they labour over their page or screen, transmuting their moment into moment-transcending language. Sei Shônagon, who may well have allowed herself such a dream from time to time as her brush moved over the page, despite the fact that what she was writing BIRTH & DEATH OF EACH MOMENT The Tibetan Book of the Dead talks about these momentary bardo states, states of transition from one realm to another, from life to death to re-birth. These states of transition also exist in each moment of our life when we are alive on this earth, each moment containing a mini-birth and mini-death. One result of the shock of September 11,2001
MA: PLACE, SPACE, VOID 虎の間 (tora-no-ma) The Tiger Room (literally, place of tigers) is the name of a room in the abbot’s quarters at Nanzenji in Kyoto. The dominant decorative motif on the sliding doors becomes the qualifier of the entire space, a common custom in mansions, castles, temples and present-day hotel ballrooms. MEET THE KYOTO JOURNAL TEAM: MINECHIKA ENDO Meet the KJ Team: Minechika Endo. September 10, 2018. Our series of interviews with KJ’s super volunteers continues. This time Lisa Nilsson speaks to Kobe-based Minechika Endo. KJ has been sending Minechika on photographic assignments around Kyoto for new issue releases, to the neighbouring prefecture of Shiga, and up to ToyamaCity.
THE WISDOM OF SHŌJIN COOKING The word “shōjin” consists of two characters—shō 精, to “purify,” and jin 進, the word for “advance.” In other words, “purifying the heart with real food enables us to move toward peace and clarity.” Ryōri 料理 commonly is translated as “cooking,” but on a deeper and broader level the characters also mean “measuring truth.”KYOTO JOURNAL
Kyoto Journal is an award-winning quarterly English magazine founded in Kyoto, Japan, presenting cultural insights from all of Asia since1987.
ABOUT US| KYOTO JOURNAL Founded in 1987, Kyoto Journal (KJ) is an award-winning, volunteer-driven quarterly magazine presenting thought-provoking cultural and historical insights from Kyoto, Japan and all of Asia. Now the longest-established independent English publication in Japan, our interdisciplinary approach, high standards of journalism and stunning design have brought us several international independentpress
CURRENT ISSUE 98: MA This digital issue of Kyoto Journal looks at the phenomenon of travel, whether as a pursuit of a deeper understanding of the world’s diversity, as a plunge into the unknown, or a deliberate immersion in a known unknown. We also wanted to reconsider how travel is reported or discussed in travelogues or online, and to re-imagine post-COVIDtravel.
THE ART OF TRANSLATION A number of years ago several of our Japanese-related journals carried an ongoing debate on the art or techniques of translating the prose literature of Japan. Some of these manifestos and arguments often degenerated into a subtle, or not so subtle, academic name-calling. But two distinct groups did emergeA RARE PLEASURE
Relatively unknown and overlooked by scholars outside of Japan, Kaga-no-Chiyo (1703-1775), a poet artist-calligrapher, perhaps with this book can join in familiarity the likes of Shikibu Murasaki, Ono no Komachi and Yosano Akiko. The book— Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master —held in both hands, feels generous. Indeed, the design allows forone
JAPANESE COURTYARD GARDENS The word tsubo itself is very interesting (niwa simply means garden) and gives a clear insight into the meaning of the garden and its potential. One meaning of tsubo (written 坪) is: an area equal to two tatami mats or about 3.3 square meters. Most tsubo gardens are small, some only a few square meters, many larger, but the implication of this definition is that the tsubo garden is ‘very ON LEARNING POTTERY IN JAPAN On Learning Pottery in Japan. For foreigners wishing to study traditional arts in Japan there is often a wide and dangerous gap between their romantic notions of apprenticeship and the hard reality they find when they finally get here. Ruth Huebner, a potter and computer programer now living in rural Maryland, recollects her threevisits to
EVERTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT JAPANESE WOOD SPECIES ANDJAPANESE WOOD TYPESJAPAN WOOD PROJECTSJAPANESE HARDWOOD TYPES Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan by Mechtild Mertz. Otsu: Kaiseisha Press, 220 pp., ¥6,090. hile reading Mechtild Mertz’s Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan my initial reaction was visceral and immediate: why wasn’t a book like this available much earlier? For the past 30 years, my own experiences with Japanese woodworking jargon never seemed to move beyond an BIRTH & DEATH OF EACH MOMENT The Tibetan Book of the Dead talks about these momentary bardo states, states of transition from one realm to another, from life to death to re-birth. These states of transition also exist in each moment of our life when we are alive on this earth, each moment containing a mini-birth and mini-death. One result of the shock of September 11,2001
LISTENING TO VEGETABLES: THE ART OF TANAHASHI TOSHIO trip to Kyoto is said to be incomplete without sampling its famous kaiseki cuisine, a sumptuous multi-course dinner which today can fetch up to $500 despite having originated in the demure tea ceremony.Less well-known but of similarly humble origins is shojin-ryori, the entirely vegetarian Buddhist cuisine that was first introduced to Kyoto monasteries from China in the 7th and 8th centuries.KYOTO JOURNAL
Kyoto Journal is an award-winning quarterly English magazine founded in Kyoto, Japan, presenting cultural insights from all of Asia since1987.
ABOUT US| KYOTO JOURNAL Founded in 1987, Kyoto Journal (KJ) is an award-winning, volunteer-driven quarterly magazine presenting thought-provoking cultural and historical insights from Kyoto, Japan and all of Asia. Now the longest-established independent English publication in Japan, our interdisciplinary approach, high standards of journalism and stunning design have brought us several international independentpress
CURRENT ISSUE 98: MA For this issue of Kyoto Journal we felt it might be useful to explore the Japanese time-space concept of “ma”—a measurement of space or an interval—empty, yet never vacant—replete with potentiality. THE ART OF TRANSLATION A number of years ago several of our Japanese-related journals carried an ongoing debate on the art or techniques of translating the prose literature of Japan. Some of these manifestos and arguments often degenerated into a subtle, or not so subtle, academic name-calling. But two distinct groups did emerge JAPANESE COURTYARD GARDENS The word tsubo itself is very interesting (niwa simply means garden) and gives a clear insight into the meaning of the garden and its potential. One meaning of tsubo (written 坪) is: an area equal to two tatami mats or about 3.3 square meters. Most tsubo gardens are small, some only a few square meters, many larger, but the implication of this definition is that the tsubo garden is ‘very ON LEARNING POTTERY IN JAPAN For foreigners wishing to study traditional arts in Japan there is often a wide and dangerous gap between their romantic notions of apprenticeship and the hard reality they find when they finally get here.Ruth Huebner, a potter and computer programer now living in rural Maryland, recollects her three visits to this country where she met with other foreign potters and put in nine months working EVERTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT JAPANESE WOOD SPECIES ANDJAPANESE WOOD TYPESJAPAN WOOD PROJECTSJAPANESE HARDWOOD TYPES Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan by Mechtild Mertz. Otsu: Kaiseisha Press, 220 pp., ¥6,090. hile reading Mechtild Mertz’s Wood and Traditional Woodworking in Japan my initial reaction was visceral and immediate: why wasn’t a book like this available much earlier? For the past 30 years, my own experiences with Japanese woodworking jargon never seemed to move beyond anA RARE PLEASURE
The few translations that do exist of particular haiku poets have focused on male poets such as Basho, Shiki and Issa. For these reasons alone, readers should welcome the translation of the work of a premiere Japanese woman poet artist-calligrapher, Kaga-no-Chiyo. LISTENING TO VEGETABLES: THE ART OF TANAHASHI TOSHIO trip to Kyoto is said to be incomplete without sampling its famous kaiseki cuisine, a sumptuous multi-course dinner which today can fetch up to $500 despite having originated in the demure tea ceremony.Less well-known but of similarly humble origins is shojin-ryori, the entirely vegetarian Buddhist cuisine that was first introduced to Kyoto monasteries from China in the 7th and 8th centuries. BIRTH & DEATH OF EACH MOMENT Japanese haiku, the simple three-line form of poetry, is now the world’s most popular poetic form. Since it first became known in the West one hundred yearsEXPLORE THE JOURNAL
The name of Kiro, a workshop specializing in Hakone yosegi marquetry, rendered using the kanji characters for “wood” and “path,” seems fitting for an art form that has seen remarkable innovation over generations and whose artisans continue to forge a path forward into the future. INSIGHTS FROM ASIA. ABOUT US| KYOTO JOURNAL Founded in 1987, Kyoto Journal (KJ) is an award-winning, volunteer-driven quarterly magazine presenting thought-provoking cultural and historical insights from Kyoto, Japan and all of Asia. Now the longest-established independent English publication in Japan, our interdisciplinary approach, high standards of journalism and stunning design have brought us several international independentpress
SHOP | KYOTO JOURNAL Kyoto Journal, a non-profit quarterly established in 1987, reaches far beyond Japan's ancient capital to be your gateway to understanding and appreciating the lifestyles, cultures and societies of Asia. Shop over 50 past issues, dating from 1987 to 2019. TIP: Use the dropdown on the right to view products in order of date of release or by price. JAPANESE COURTYARD GARDENS The word tsubo itself is very interesting (niwa simply means garden) and gives a clear insight into the meaning of the garden and its potential. One meaning of tsubo (written 坪) is: an area equal to two tatami mats or about 3.3 square meters. Most tsubo gardens are small, some only a few square meters, many larger, but the implication of this definition is that the tsubo garden is ‘very LISTENING TO VEGETABLES: THE ART OF TANAHASHI TOSHIO trip to Kyoto is said to be incomplete without sampling its famous kaiseki cuisine, a sumptuous multi-course dinner which today can fetch up to $500 despite having originated in the demure tea ceremony.Less well-known but of similarly humble origins is shojin-ryori, the entirely vegetarian Buddhist cuisine that was first introduced to Kyoto monasteries from China in the 7th and 8th centuries. TRANSLATING A CLASSIC: THE PILLOW BOOK, BY SEI SHÔNAGON The Pillow Book is an extreme example of a work that has lived past its time, and attained the deathless status that writers dream of as they labour over their page or screen, transmuting their moment into moment-transcending language. Sei Shônagon, who may well have allowed herself such a dream from time to time as her brush moved over the page, despite the fact that what she was writing BIRTH & DEATH OF EACH MOMENT The Tibetan Book of the Dead talks about these momentary bardo states, states of transition from one realm to another, from life to death to re-birth. These states of transition also exist in each moment of our life when we are alive on this earth, each moment containing a mini-birth and mini-death. One result of the shock of September 11,2001
MA: PLACE, SPACE, VOID 虎の間 (tora-no-ma) The Tiger Room (literally, place of tigers) is the name of a room in the abbot’s quarters at Nanzenji in Kyoto. The dominant decorative motif on the sliding doors becomes the qualifier of the entire space, a common custom in mansions, castles, temples and present-day hotel ballrooms. MEET THE KYOTO JOURNAL TEAM: MINECHIKA ENDO Meet the KJ Team: Minechika Endo. September 10, 2018. Our series of interviews with KJ’s super volunteers continues. This time Lisa Nilsson speaks to Kobe-based Minechika Endo. KJ has been sending Minechika on photographic assignments around Kyoto for new issue releases, to the neighbouring prefecture of Shiga, and up to ToyamaCity.
THE WISDOM OF SHŌJIN COOKING The word “shōjin” consists of two characters—shō 精, to “purify,” and jin 進, the word for “advance.” In other words, “purifying the heart with real food enables us to move toward peace and clarity.” Ryōri 料理 commonly is translated as “cooking,” but on a deeper and broader level the characters also mean “measuring truth.”Details
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