Ichijoji
Sumi-e, strategy and swordsmanship - inspired by the arts of Miyamoto Musashi
Saturday, 30 July 2011
Musashi's Monkey Design Part 1
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Not by Musashi, but Mu Qi, a Chinese painter of the Song Dynasty. I have a particular fondness for gibbons, so I was very pleased to be...
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Sunday, 10 July 2011
Ryozen Historical Museum - Ryoma and the Shinsengumi
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Ishi-chan, the museum mascot. What have things come to!? At last I got round to visiting the Ryozen Museum. I had put it off for a lon...
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Saturday, 2 July 2011
More on Vagabond
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I hadn't meant to write about this, but somehow I found myself doing it. I think I have mentioned Inoue's marvelous Vagabond be...
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Friday, 17 June 2011
Information Rich
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Advertising for the Ikeda-ya on Sanjo Street Japan, and particularly Kyoto, it seems, is an extremely information rich environment: wal...
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
Go Grrrls - Ishida Mitsunari, the Musical
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The Takurazuka Revue is not really my cup of tea, but the poster looks dramatic. For those of you who don't know, Takurazuka is an al...
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Saturday, 21 May 2011
It's not where you're looking but what you look at
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This is section of a painting by Ryohei Yamashita..used for the cover of a novel about (and entitled?) Bokuden One of the challenges of...
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
Mon - the gateway
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A quick sketch I did the other day - a typical mon in Japan The gateway (or gate), which is called mon in Japanese, is an inescapable...
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