News
Loading...

Fujiland

  • Home
  • Interviews
    • Makoto Aida
    • Hiroshi Sugimoto
    • Nobuyoshi Araki
    • Yayoi Kusama
    • Katsura Funakoshi
  • Art and Culture
    • Exhibitions
    • Nihonga
    • Zen
  • History and Politics
    • Samurai
    • Shoguns
    • Russo-Japanese War
    • WWII
  • Folklore
    • Kappa
    • Tengu
    • Ghosts
  • Manga and Anime
    • Ero-Manga
    • Gegege-no-Kitaro
    • Hello Kitty
    • Sailor Moon
  • Cute and Weird
    • High School Girls
    • Fetish
    • love hotels
Powered by Blogger.

Total Pageviews

Blog Archive

  • ▼  2025 (3)
    • ▼  February (2)
      • THE MYSTERY OF THE GROWING NECK BUDDHA
      • TOKYO BY SOUNDTRUCK: UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH JA...
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2024 (3)
    • ►  February (3)
  • ►  2023 (10)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (2)
    • ►  October (1)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  March (1)
    • ►  February (2)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2022 (2)
    • ►  September (1)
    • ►  August (1)
  • ►  2021 (6)
    • ►  October (1)
    • ►  September (2)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  April (1)
  • ►  2020 (10)
    • ►  August (5)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  March (1)
    • ►  February (3)
  • ►  2019 (3)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  July (2)
  • ►  2017 (2)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  February (1)
  • ►  2016 (9)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  September (1)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  May (2)
    • ►  April (2)
    • ►  March (1)
    • ►  February (1)
  • ►  2015 (19)
    • ►  December (2)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  October (6)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  May (2)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  March (1)
    • ►  February (3)
    • ►  January (2)
  • ►  2014 (16)
    • ►  December (2)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  October (1)
    • ►  September (1)
    • ►  July (3)
    • ►  May (3)
    • ►  April (2)
    • ►  March (2)
    • ►  February (1)
  • ►  2013 (15)
    • ►  November (6)
    • ►  September (1)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  April (3)
    • ►  January (3)
  • ►  2012 (9)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  October (2)
    • ►  September (1)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  March (1)
    • ►  January (2)
  • ►  2011 (25)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  October (2)
    • ►  September (3)
    • ►  June (4)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  April (2)
    • ►  March (6)
    • ►  February (3)
    • ►  January (2)
  • ►  2010 (49)
    • ►  December (2)
    • ►  November (6)
    • ►  October (25)
    • ►  September (1)
    • ►  June (2)
    • ►  May (2)
    • ►  April (4)
    • ►  March (5)
    • ►  February (2)
  • ►  2009 (29)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (11)
    • ►  October (11)
    • ►  September (6)

Other Stuff

  • Y'know - interviews with the famous
    Mutsue Hayakusa (早草 睦惠), architect
    2 months ago
  • Trends in Japan
    See how eyebrow makeup trends have changed over the Heisei period
    7 years ago
  • NIKKEI ASIAN REVIEW

Followers

Places

Tokyo Shinjuku Yoshiwara Akihabara Dejima Hiroshima Karuizawa Mt. Fuji Nagasaki Nagoya Okubo Setagaya-ku Shibuya Tottori Yasukuni Shrine Aomori Aoyama Cemetery Dogenzaka Fuchu City Fukuoka Gojo Bridge Hiroshima Peace Park Ise Jingu Kabukicho Kanagawa Katsura Imperial Villa Katsushika Kennin-ji Kichijoji Kugenuma Morioka Mt. Asama Nagano Nara Niigata Nishi Ochiai Oita Prefecture Okachimachi Osaka Ryogoku Saitama Sumida River Takadanobaba Tofuki-ji Tohoku region Toshodaiji Toyoga Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine Yomeiji Temple Yono Yoyogi

Pages

  • Home
Home / Archive for February 2025

THE MYSTERY OF THE GROWING NECK BUDDHA

February 10, 2025 Add Comment Edit
Back in 1991, the head of the Manji–no–Sekibutsu (Stone Buddha of Manji), a 3.3–meter tall statue in Japan's mountainous Nagano Prefectu...
Read More

TOKYO BY SOUNDTRUCK: UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH JAPAN'S "FAR-RIGHT"

February 10, 2025 Add Comment Edit
Introduction: This is an old Tokyo Journal  article from the 1990s by Michael McDongah. As it is no longer available anywhere but well worth...
Read More
Subscribe to: Posts ( Atom )

FOR UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ON TOKYO

FOR UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ON TOKYO
The latest art, music, culture, entertainment, food, and commentary from the World's largest and best city.

Random Posts

  • Popular Post
  • Fujiland
  • Category

Popular Posts

  • Exhibition: Tamako Kataoka
    Exhibition: Tamako Kataoka
    Centenarian's art defies Nihonga conventions Painting is clearly good for one’s health. While rock stars, rappers, and movie actors cr...
  • Exhibition: Shinto Gods and Buddhist Deities
    Exhibition: Shinto Gods and Buddhist Deities
    One aspect of the Orient that Occidentals often find baffling is the ability of most Orientals to believe in several gods and religions at...
  • FICTION: SPEEDBUMP
    FICTION: SPEEDBUMP
    Once upon a time, there was a king who wanted to check up on the public spiritedness of his people so he placed a large rock in the mid...
  • Ditch the guidebook to avoid Japan's worst tourist draws
    Ditch the guidebook to avoid Japan's worst tourist draws
    Yes, Mt. Fuji literally is a giant ashtray! From climbing giant ashtrays to watching tea grow cold, there's far too much attentio...
  • Interview: Akaji Maro
    Interview: Akaji Maro
    Butoh: taking a cross-eyed, bow-legged bow When the young dancer Yoshito Ohno simulated sex by breaking the neck of a live chicken b...
  • Aljazeera: Japan's Newest and Largest Mosque Opens its Doors
    Aljazeera: Japan's Newest and Largest Mosque Opens its Doors
    The Ahmadi Muslim community in Japan hopes its new mosque will promote  intercultural understanding and dialogue by Michael Penn ...
  • Exhibition: Zenga from the Gitter-Yelen Collection
    Exhibition: Zenga from the Gitter-Yelen Collection
    Art that makes it all look easy Art unfortunately shares its etymology with words like artifice and artificial, and all too often that is j...
  • Interview: Yayoi Kusama
    Interview: Yayoi Kusama
    Yayoi Kusama is perhaps Japan's most famous living artist. From her groundbreaking work in New York in the 1950s and 60s, when she e...
  • JAPANESE WESTERN FESTIVALS
    JAPANESE WESTERN FESTIVALS
    Certain Western festivals catch on in Japan and others don’t. What is the secret factor that determines this? I would say it is a str...
  • Exhibition: Shigeru Mizuki
    Exhibition: Shigeru Mizuki
    Spirited stories make Mizuki a true original Japanese manga (comics) have now attained an international appeal. Whether this is a ...

Recent comments

Famous Fujilanders

Hokusai Hello Kitty Takashi Murakami Akira Kurosawa Araki Hiroshi Sugimoto Katsura Funakoshi Kenzo Tange Kuniyoshi Utagawa Sharaku Tohshuhsai Shinsui Ito Fumio Nanjo Fuyuko Matsui Hakuin Harue Koga Henri Riviere Hirohito Hiroshige Utagawa Isamu Noguchi Itoh Jakuchu Kengo Kuma Kitagawa Utamaro Kiyochika Kobayashi Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama Kumi Machida Makoto Aida Narashige Koide Natsuo Kirino Norihiko Dan Sengai Sosuke Uno Taro Okamoto Yayoi Kusama Yoko Ono Kakuei Tanaka

Fujiland

Both a blog with new posts and an archive of my articles about Japan published in various publications (The Japan Times, Architecture Week, Culturkiosque, The Erotic Review, The International Herald Tribune Asahi Shimbun, Japanzine, J-Select, Kansai Time Out, Kyoto Journal, Metropolis, The Quarterly Review, The South China Morning Post, Tokyo Journal, Taki's Magazine, CNNgo, etc.) This is also a great resource for plaigerists.

Topics

art (28) interview (11) sex (11) Nihonga (10) Zen (10) photography (10) ukiyo-e (10) architecture (8) sculpture (8) video (8) book review (7) manga (7) photo (6) Buddhism (5) history (5) wabi-sabi (5) fashion (4) pornography (4) prostitution (4) surrealism (4) bijinga (3) fiction (3) lacquer (3) samurai (3) schoolgirls (3) tea ceremony (3) Noh (2) anime (2) cinema (2) humour (2) maki-e (2) politics (2) science (2) stereotypes (2) Bushido (1) business (1) ceramics (1) conceptual art (1) contemporary art (1) crafts (1) geisha (1) interior design (1) nightlife (1)

Most Popular (Last Month)

  • HERE BE MONSTERS
    HERE BE MONSTERS
  • Welcome to the Retrozone
    Welcome to the Retrozone
  • RECORDS OF THE RISING SUN
    RECORDS OF THE RISING SUN
  • Ditch the guidebook to avoid Japan's worst tourist draws
    Ditch the guidebook to avoid Japan's worst tourist draws
  • Aljazeera: Japan's Newest and Largest Mosque Opens its Doors
    Aljazeera: Japan's Newest and Largest Mosque Opens its Doors
  • Exhibition: Tamako Kataoka
    Exhibition: Tamako Kataoka
  • Interview: Akaji Maro
    Interview: Akaji Maro
  • FICTION: SPEEDBUMP
    FICTION: SPEEDBUMP
  • EXHIBITION: SHINSUI ITO
    EXHIBITION: SHINSUI ITO
  • Exhibition: Nobuyoshi Araki + Katsura Funakoshi
    Exhibition: Nobuyoshi Araki + Katsura Funakoshi

Most Popular (Last Year)

  • Exhibition: Baur Collection
  • Hisashi Tenmyouya: Samurai with a Paintbrush
  • RECORDS OF THE RISING SUN
  • EXHIBITION: SHINSUI ITO
  • SUPERFLAT PAPER TIGER: THE ART OF TAKASHI MURAKAMI
  • VIDEO: PRINCES OF THE YEN
  • THE BATTLESHIP MIKASA
  • Leonard Foujita: Paris's Pet Oriental
  • Exhibition: Nobuyoshi Araki + Katsura Funakoshi
  • TAKASHI MURAKAMI EXHIBITION - PHOTOS AND VIDEOS

All Time Most Popular

  • Ero Manga
  • Exhibition: Yoshihiko Ueda
  • Exhibition: Nobuyoshi Araki + Katsura Funakoshi
  • The Restless City: How Tokyo’s Sleazier Neighborhoods have Successfully Rebranded Themselves
  • THE BATTLESHIP MIKASA
  • SUPERFLAT PAPER TIGER: THE ART OF TAKASHI MURAKAMI
  • JAPANICIDE: WHAT MURDER REVEALS ABOUT THE JAPANESE
  • INTERVIEW: HIROSHI SUGIMOTO

About Fujiland

Both a blog with new posts and an archive of my articles about Japan published in various publications (The Japan Times, Architecture Week, Culturkiosque, The Erotic Review, The International Herald Tribune Asahi Shimbun, Japanzine, J-Select, Kansai Time Out, Kyoto Journal, Metropolis, The Quarterly Review, The South China Morning Post, Tokyo Journal, Taki's Magazine, CNNgo, etc.) This is also a great resource for plagiarists.
Created By Sora Templates | Distributed By Gooyaabi Templates
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • Error Page