You can’t have anime without Japanese culture! Find out where anime fashion comes from and why Japan’s designs are so unique.
Today is Blog Action Day, where bloggers from around the world have united to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind – the environment. Every blogger who is participating will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone talking towards a better [...]
Western customs, no matter how varied, are usually connected to each other in some way. Where ever there are local superstitions, customs, practices, or beliefs, there’s often a common, larger history tying them together. There’s no better example of Western beliefs commingling from various nationalities than right here in the US. We take our [...]
We were able to get some footage of The St. Louis Osuwa Taiko Drummers at the 2007 St. Louis Botanical Gardens Japanese Festival. Here’s the first of two performances:
Have you ever seen Japanese drummers? If so, when and where?
Here’s our album from the 2007 Japanese Festival at the Missouri Botanical Gardens!
Many anime fans once again proved that they don’t just love anime itself, but the whole culture that spawned it, by showing up en force to the Midwest Matsuri. When asked why they were attending the Japanese Festival, several anime fans responded [...]
This article really has very little to do with Kabuki. It is connected to the two previous articles (Kabuki in NYC and its Follow-up) since Nakamura Kanzaburo is mentioned. I was going to include this at the end of the second article, but it was a bit too long…so instead, it has become [...]
In my first article, Kabuki in NYC, I wrote a brief, general history of Kabuki followed by interview excerpts with Nakamura Kanzaburo XVIII from an article in the Summer 2007 issue of the Kateigaho International Edition magazine. It also mentioned performance dates in NYC by Nakamura-sama’s troupe.
In this follow-up, I’ll be using a Washington [...]
The sushi craze, like anime, is starting to enter America’s mainstream media conscious. For those lucky enough to live on the West coast (nyyyyyya, you lucky ducks) this is nothing new. For those anime fans just starting their Japanese culture, Journey of Discovery, sushi can seem daunting and intimidating.
I, personally, love sushi, but [...]
Today Kabuki is considered one of the traditional forms of theater (along with Noh, Kyogen, and Bunraku) in Japan. It had its origins in the early 17th century. Okuni, a miko (Shinto shrine attendant) of Izumo Shrine, developed original dances and performed them in the dry river beds of Kyoto. She gathered together [...]
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