Rumiko Takahashi (高橋 留美子, Takahashi Rumiko, born October 10, 1957) is a Japanese manga artist. With a career of several commercially successful works, beginning with Urusei Yatsura in 1978, Takahashi is one of Japan's most affluent manga artists. Her works are popular worldwide, ...
The popularity of Japanese culture, from the food to anime, has put Japanese baby names in the spotlight. You might choose a Japanese name for your baby to reflect the child's heritage or because you like the sound of the name or its meaning. Whether it's a common Japanese name or a ...
Six cats, the last sheet of a triptych Tatoe zukushi no uchi, “Proverbs Illustrated by Cats.” Examples being: “Bonito to a cat,”“Coin to a cat,”“Not even a cat would eat it.” Published 1852 by Kagaya Yasubei. Bob-tailed and calico cats were common in the Edo period. It ...
UmeGeneration + eye, look, glance, viewpoint (代目). Probably an elegant (and rare) respelling of the common name Ume (plum blossom, 梅).Lower-ranking oiranToyokuni III UmegaeBranch of plum blossoms (梅枝), a chapter title fromThe Tale of Genji.The Great Mirror of Love ...
One common instrument of both is ‘obliqueness’, something that’s quite uncomfortable for humans, just think of a picture hanging on the wall at an oblique angle, there’s a visceral feeling that something’s wrong. Similarly, the use of obliqueness in the scene/layout direction leads to...
Hiromi Suzuki was one of the first female sushi chefs in New York in a profession that was always male-dominated because the common belief was that a woman’s soft warm hands would ruin the fish. At age 8, she convinced her father to take her to the Fulton fish market and from there...
to nature, geographical features or locations, for example, mountain (yama), tree (ki), rice field (ta), island (shima), village (mura), bridge (hashi), between (naka), below (shita), etc. Some of the most common Japanese family names are Sato, Suzuki, Takahashi, Tanaka and Watanabe...
However, the Japanese arenotorious for stubbornly sticking to outdated technology.Common-sense dictates that looking only at digital downloads would give a very skewed impression of the Japanese music market, which is still the second biggest in the world. ...
" These prominent journalists of Japan may or may not be currently alive, but what they all have in common is that they're all respected Japanese journalists.Use this list of renowned Japanese journalists to discover some new journalists that you aren't familiar with. Don't forget to share ...
Tanuki gazing at the moon was a common artistic theme in Japan’s Edo era.PHOTO: J-site 1 || 2 || 3 Mujina 貉 momentarily assumes its animal form while making tea; from 1781 Konjaku Gazuzoku Hyakki 今昔画図続百鬼 (Continued Illustrations of Many Demons Past and Present). The tea-...