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Podcast: Colin Liddell on "Erotic Haiku"

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Back in 2007, podcasts were still something of a novelty. Metropolis , Tokyo's leading English magazine at the time, was an early ...
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The Polymorphous Creativity of Kuniyoshi

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Men Join to Form a Man: Looks Fierce But is Really Nice, c.1847 The big ukiyo-e exhibition this year has been the Toshusai Sharaku sho...
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Book Review: "A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics" by Donald Richie

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THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF FOREIGNERS: The one who visits the holiest zen garden and sees nothing but a dirty pond, a bit of gravel, and some s...
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Exhibition: Taro Okamoto

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The second part of the 100th anniversary show honors the legacy of an artistic phenomenon Visiting the Taro Okamoto Museum of Art is...
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Exhibition: Nobuyoshi Araki + Katsura Funakoshi

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Mother and Child (2008) It's not the meek who will inherit the Earth; it's the breeders. Japan has finally woken up to this ...
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Exhibition: Someno Collection

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Miwa Jusetsu, Inochi-no-kaika, tea bowl with notched foot, Hagi ware, Oni-hagi type, 2003 Slapdash ceramics stir the mind at the National ...
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Exhibition: Nude Photography

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28°26' North Latitude, by Yoshihiro Tatsuki, 1970 New technology spreads fastest if it can be adapted to a sexual purpose. Without the ...
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Exhibition: Zeshin Shibata

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The lusciousness of lacquer delights at the Mitsui One of the most common pieces of advice given to prospective art collectors is to acqui...
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Exhibition: Fuchu Biennial

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There is a philosophical conundrum that runs: "If a tree falls in a forest with no one to hear it, does it make a sound?" The po...
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Book Review: "Urayasu Tekkin Kazuko" by Kenji Hamaoka

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Japan gets a lot of praise around the World for its manga, but the stark truth is that most of this is turgid drivel. You know the sort of ...
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Lightning Fields

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Over a long career, photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto seems to have specialized in capturing light in some of its duller moments: bouncing o...
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Two-Headed Monster: Beware Japan's new political beast

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Japan can now wipe the political dribble from its chin and step into its own freshly pressed and creased pair of democratic long pants. ...
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Book Review: "A Diplomat in Japan" by Sir Ernest Satow

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When Edo Japan was forced to open its doors to the outside World in 1854, it set off a train of events that destabilized the feudal orde...
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Book Review: 'Unbeaten Tracks in Japan' by Isabella L. Bird

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If, as the British writer L.P. Hartley famously wrote, “the past is a foreign country,” then this paperback reprint of an 1880 travelogu...
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