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The Radiant Zen Beauty of Eihei-ji│ 永平寺の輝ける禅美
OhayouJuly 13, 2025 It is never easy to leave a place—barely discovered, just tamed—you have to leave and start again… READ MORE
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Ryūichi Sakamoto composes forbidden colors│ 坂本龍一が禁色を作曲
OhayouApril 2025 I made this apparently strange connection between Ryūichi Sakamoto and Dave Brubeck, and yet it is so obvious… READ MORE
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Ryūichi Sakamoto, the music of time and space│ 坂本 龍一、時間と空間の音楽
OhayouMarch 2025 The Japanese and music is a love story. They learn it very early in school and often play… READ MORE
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In search of the Tengu│天狗を探して
OhayouDecember 2022 When the sky is clear, which is not often the case at the moment, you can see clearly… READ MORE
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See Japanese cinema│日本映画を観る
OhayouJanuary 2023 Although largely ignored in the West, Japanese cinema is still one of the most important in the world… READ MORE
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Dragon ball │ ドラゴンボール
OhayouJune 2024 I found a mythical animal very popular in Japan, 竜 I received quite late in the evening a… READ MORE
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D.T. Suzuki the Zen and life│鈴木大拙 禅と人生
Ohayou June 2024 Finding your way is a game I love in Japan, doing what others do not, knowing the… READ MORE
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The Tokugawa clan in the Edo era │徳川氏の江戸時代
Ohayou January 2023 In 1615, Tokugawa Ieyasu, having become shōgun, quelled a rebellion at Osaka Castle led by the son… READ MORE
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Yasujirō Ōzu in Onomichi│小津 安二郎尾道へ
Ohayou July 2024 Shikoku island was one of my destinations for this trip. I approached her in 2018 when I… READ MORE
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The Bushidō of Nitobe Inazō│新渡戸稲造の武士道
Ohayou January 2023 武 士 道 was written in 1899 in English, in the United States, by Nitobe Inazō, a… READ MORE
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« When will the West understand, or try to understand, the East? We Asians are sometimes appalled by the strange web of facts and inventions with which we have been enveloped. »
Okakura Tenshin
(The book of tea, 1906)
Quote in Souyri, Pierre-François. Nouvelle histoire du Japon. Paris : Perrin, 2010.
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