Ichijoji

Kano Tanyu: ceiling painting, Unryu , Myoshinji Temple, Kyoto Dragons have been depicted in Japan in a variety of different media, but ...

A very quick post wishing all of a you a Happy New Year, and a thank-you for your support and kind comments. I hope that you will contin...

I always say, if anyone asks me, that in order to appreciate art, you should try and see work in the flesh. It took me quite a while to co...

At last I made it to the cinema to see Ichimei - I had been meaning to go ever since it was released. After 13 Assassins, I was expecting g...

This is the season of momiji or koyo - the brilliant autumn leaves of the maples. It is one of the principal images of autumn in Japan...

Confucius, from the recent film of the same name It's difficult to generalise about neo-Confucian writings on the sw...

Kano Eitoku - Scholars playing weiqi ( go in Japanese) Preamble Confucianism often gets a bad rap - in its Japanese context it is char...