The temple that best reflects the spirit of early Heian Shingon temples is the Murō-ji (early 9th century), set deep in a stand of cypress trees on a mountain southeast of Nara. The wooden image (also early 9th c.) of Shakyamuni, the "historic" Buddha, enshrined in a secondary build...
This type of fixation has nothing to do with the underlying spirit of the Raku tea bowls. The appeal of Chonyu's pottery is not in its formalized style, but in its large size, its slightly thicker structure, and its solid, bold presence. Chonyu's style of tea bowls do not have the...
a sense of proximity to and intimacy with the world of spirit as well as a trust in nature’s generalbenevolence. The cycle of the seasons was deeply instructive and revealed, for example, that immutability andtranscendentperfection were not natural norms. Everything was understood as subject to...
The National Gallery’s Curator of Australian Prints and Drawings, Dr Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax hopes that Geelong and Victorian audiences will add the names Spowers and Syme to their knowledge of ground-breaking women artists from the era including Margaret Preston, Thea Proctor, Dorrit Black and G...
The fourthcreature-filled film from Studio Ghibli,Princess Mononokehelped establish both of their names internationally. The film follows a young prince who finds himself in a war between the spirits of a forest and the humans harvesting it for resources. ...
Sorry Clancy, but this basho I'm with Martin, Kakuryu isn't showing any real motivation or fighting spirit and I'd rather not watch his matches. He did look good in the beginning, and has won a few in the middle too to leave today at 6-4, and he'll prolly get that eight, but...
The name consists of two kanji, 幽 (yū), meaning "faint" or "dim" and 霊 (rei), meaning "soul" or "spirit". Alternative names include Bōrei (亡霊), meaning ruined or departed spirit, Shiryō (死霊), meaning dead spirit, or the more encompassing Yōkai (妖怪) or Obake (お化け)...
This has a meaning like “forging or creating something from lots of training and practice.” My Japanese dictionary translates this as “tempering, forging, hardening, disciplining, training.” This is for Japanese and Korean only. In Chinese, these characters might be translated as (physical) ...
Their relationship with demons in Japanese tattoo art has more to try to with ogres being grouped into the realm of supernatural creatures (along with Yokai) than anything. Still, the symbolism holds because the imagery of the marauding ogre isn’t far away from the thought of the spirit wh...
His father taught him the Japanese word gambatte, meaning to do your best, and Wat took the lesson to heart, pushing himself to work hard in school, on the basketball court, and later, after his father died, to help support his family. During World War II, Wat’s family escaped being...