Bunraku Japan's Professional Puppet Theater

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Japan culture center - Bunraku is the Japanese form of puppet theater. Japanese consider it as a serious art form and not as entertainment for children. One of the three major classical theaters of Japan, with kabuki and noh drama, bunraku is a sophisticated puppet theater written


Bunraku Japan's Professional Puppet Theater with Video Preview from Youtube


 Washi Paper - Japanese Paper

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Watch the Washi Making Technique Live From Youtube




Japan culture center - Traditional Imported Japanese hand made Japanese paper, washi is made from natural Japanese mountain ingredients like cedar, mulberry and maple. There is nothing as beautiful as Hand Made Washi Paper. Washi paper is unique, because the way it is made.

Washi is the Japanese word for the traditional papers made from the long inner fibres of three plants, wa meaning Japanese and shi meaning paper. As Japan rushes with the rest of the world into the 21st Century, and more modern technologies take over, machines produce similar-looking papers which have qualities very different from authentic washi. As of the fall of 2008, there remained fewer than 350 families still engaged in the production of paper by hand




Japan culture center - Traditional kabuki is highly melodramatic but strictly historical. Kabuki, one of traditional Japanese entertainment, originated in the early 17th century. All female roles in kabuki have been played by male

Review Book - Japanese Martial Arts  By Sensei Neil Horton
Japanese Martial Art 
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* Paperback: 128 pages
* Publisher: Summersdale (10 Oct 2005)
* Language English
* ISBN-10: 184024478X
* ISBN-13: 978-1840244786
* Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.4 x 1.6 cm



Japan culture center - Sensei Neil Horton has produced an interesting and very accessible introduction to the martial arts of Japan. Whether a seasoned martial artist looking to I earn more about other disciplines, or a complete newcomer to the martial arts, you are sure to enjoy this book." Iain Abernethy, 5th Dan "Neil Horton should be applauded for not only delivering a comprehensive guide on the fighting arts of Japan, but also for bringing attention to the lesser known styles of this country." Jamie Clubb, Martial Arts Illustrated.

This illustrated book (Japanese Martial Arts) is a thorough and authoritative guide to all the major forms of martial arts that have emerged from Japan, covering the culture, application and forms of dozens of disciplines from Judo to Jo-jutsu, Aikido to Sumo, Karate to Kyudo.




Japanese Sit-Down Comedy - Rakugo

Japanese Sit-Down Comedy - Rakugo, japanese culture

Japanese Sit-Down Comedy - Rakugo picture
Japan culture center - Rakugo can be best described as Japanese sit-down comedy of comic story telling. Just as there is stand-up comedy in the western countries, there is sit-down comedy in Japan. Most obviously, the difference is that the performer sits on his knees when he performs. It requires some training to sit like that for a long time without letting the legs fall in sleep. The performer wears traditional formal Japanese clothes (Kimono) and sometimes wears a pair of long wide pants (Hakama) and/or a formal jacket (Haori).

Tsukimi - the beautiful full moon party
Tsukimi - the beautiful full moon Japanese party
Japan culture center - Tsukimi is enjoying the beautiful full moon party in the summer around mid-August. In the window which saw the full moon, placed special offerings. It is actually a form of nature worship by the people who farm to obtain abundant harvest.

O-Bon
O-Bon festival
Japan culture center - O-Bon Is a Buddhist religious event where every family in Japan preparing everything to welcome the spirits of ancestors who lived for several days at their home. A number of lighting a fire that is placed around the home is welcome. During the O-bon, the family put fruit etc, on the table. In some areas do bulk O-bon dance to the accompaniment of a number of traditional musical instruments like taiko drums, flutes, etc. with a dynamic rhythm. In closing celebrations, carried out in the waste in the river, small lanterns, colorful nearest river in a gang.

Hanabi (Fireworks Festival photos)
Hanabi (Fireworks Festival)
Hanabi (Fireworks Festival picture)
Japan culture center - Hanabi (Fireworks Festival) is fireworks party is held throughout Japan in mid-August. In addition, there are also fun games like catching a goldfish using a thin paper plated wire and a lot of shops that sell a variety of foods such as candy apples, candy, and others. In the vicinity of the place where the fireworks take place there are various entertainment kiosks that provide food, beverages, and games of the child.

Tanabata japanese party
Tanabata party
Japan culture center - The origins of this festival originated in China and were introduced to Japanese society at the time of Nara. The story begins in the love story of two men named Altair (Hikoboshi) and Vega (Orihime). Hikoboshi was a cow herder, while Orihime is a princess who has the skill to weave. They abandoned their jobs because of that love, and this makes the king angry heavens so that they both use the river separating Amanogawa. 

Orihime and Hikoboshi can only be met on the night of the seventh month of the seventh every year, through a magical bridge. If on the night of rain, rivers will overflow their disjunctive and they have to wait until next year to re-meet.

Japan culture center - Japanese culture was also famous in America. At this year's event has been held U.S. Sumo Championships. Here are some photos from the event.




Japanese culture center - US Sumo Championships With Photos

Japanese culture center - US Sumo Championships With Picture

Japanese culture center - US Sumo Championships With Photos, sumo

Japanese culture center - US Sumo Championships With Photos, japanese sumo

Japanese culture center - US Sumo Championships With Photos, image of sumo


US National Sumo Championships in Las Vegas, Nevada. AFP photo

Washi Paper Dolls

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Washi Paper Dolls

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Japan culture center - Japanese Origami Paper Doll

How to make Washi Dol Video


Sumo - 3 Players A Legendary Sumo Wrestling In Japan


Name: Jinmaku Kokonoe Date of Birth: June 1st, 1955 Place of Birth: Hokkaido Height: 183 cm Weight:127 kg Retired: May, 1991
Sumo - 3 Players A Legendary Sumo Wrestling In Japanese
 Name:Ryuji Hiroshima Date of Birth:April 29, 1976 Place of Birth:Oita Oita Height: 181 cm Weight:158 kg Retired: January, 2010
Sumo - 3 Players A Legendary Sumo Wrestling In Japan, sumo picture
 Name: Yoshifumi Fukuzono Date of Birth: February 2nd, 1963 Place of Birth: Kajiki Aira Kagoshima Height:186 cm Weight:113 kg Retired: September, 2002

Japan culture center - Sumo tradition has been around since the 1500's in the days of imperial Japan. It is a symbol of heroism and religious also requires the fighters perform a special ritual dohyo-envy at Shinto shrines before competing in Niigata.

Sumo is also known as kokugi which means "national sport" of Japan. Techniques and locking down the opponent is most powerful weapon which must be done every wrestlers.

Japanese Culture center - The History of Sumo

Japanese Culture center - The History of Sumo photos
The History of Sumo
Japan culture center - Sumo is a sport of the Japanese which have existed for centuries years ago. According to the Nihon Shoki, the oldest history book in Japan, in the year 642 an aristocrat named Hakusai set sumo festival to celebrate the opening of the new temple he had built. Sumo is also used as military training techniques of warfare in the Kamakura period.

Traditional Japanese Wedding
Japan culture center - Traditional Japanese wedding was held at the Temple with Buddhist System or better known as Shinto wedding. In this custom, the wedding couple dressed in traditional Kimono. The bride wearing a traditional wedding kimono, shiromuku (white kimono), while the groom wore montsuki haori hakama. Pastor headed Shinto style wedding with only family members and relatives followed closely.

Japanese Wedding Souvenirs - Sujeo
Japanese Wedding Souvenirs
Japan culture center - Japanese wedding souvenir called "Hikidemono", souvenirs are included in the bag to take guests home. There is a Japanese culture called Sujeo. Sujeo is a set of cutlery in Korean culinary tradition that consists of a spoon and chopsticks. Crafts marriage is seen as the most important tool in life, at once the symbol of a prosperous life.

Japanese culture center - Traditional Japanese House Interior

Japanese culture center - Traditional Japanese House Interior designs

Japanese culture center - Traditional Japanese House Interior ideas

Japanese culture center - Traditional Japanese House Interior style
Japan culture center - Interior and selection of materials Traditional Japanese houses are still the same with modern style. The walls were thin; almost immaterial (the paper was still used for the walls of the room). Indeed unsafe and very cold in winter.

Japanese culture center - Japanese Traditional Architecture designs

Japanese culture center - Japanese Traditional Architecture picture


Japan culture center - Traditional Japanese houses with wood-dominated seats and sliding door horizontal and vertical direction of the wood. Traditional Japanese houses made of wood and the roof crushed stone facade with typical Japanese accessories.
Japanese culture center - Japanese Traditional Architecture style


Not only her image, but its construction is simple once "the fewer, the better". This principle has been taken over in the art of international architecture.

japanese culture center - Traditional Japanese Bathroom

japanese culture center - Traditional Japanese Bathroom 2
Japan culture center - Ancient Japanese people often bathe in public baths (sento), so traditional houses rarely have their own bathroom.

Japanese culture center - Kitchen in traditional Japanese house
Photo of Kitchen in traditional Japanese house

Japanese culture center - Kitchen in traditional Japanese house 2
Kitchen in traditional Japanese house
Japan culture center - There are two types of kitchen in traditional Japanese house, the first with a furnace and the second by hanging. Both ways are equally using firewood.

Japanese culture center, Traditional Japanese House Design - Washiki 1
Japanese culture center, Traditional Japanese House Design - Washiki


Japanese culture center, Traditional Japanese House Design - Washiki 2
Japan culture center - Traditional Japanese toilets (washiki) are a squat toilet-also known as the Asian toilet. Most squat toilets in Japan are made of porcelain. The user of the toilet in Japan the opposite of Indonesia where they are facing the wall behind the toilet in the picture shown on the right.

Squat toilets are divided into two types: the toilet is located on the surface of the floor, and toilet is located on the floor is elevated about 30 cm the latter is easier to use for ane-ane to urinate while standing.

japanese culture center, Traditional Japanese House Design - Genkan
Traditional Japanese House Design - Genkan
Japan culture center - One characteristic of the Japanese house is genkan. Genkan is a place where people take off their shoes. When they remove their shoes, people step up to higher floors of genkan. Besides genkan there is a shelf or cabinet called Getabako where people can store their shoes. Sandals to wear at home are also stored there.

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