As part of Doors Open Toronto, the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre is featuring an Art Show and Sale called "Sumi-e: The Way of the Brush". Our intent is to promote “Friendship through Culture ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A handmade calligraphy brush, custom made for a master calligrapher, can cost over $1,000. At Hata Bunshindou each brush tip is made by a single artisan.

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

Among the crafts to be demonstrated are calligraphy; origami, or decorative paper-folding; and brush painting, or sumi-e. There will be demonstrations of the martial arts aikido and kendo, along with ...

They don’t suit everyone’s needs, so you might be better off getting a brush attachment for your garden hose. Car wash brushes tend to be much more affordable than pressure washers ...

OMACHI, Nagano Prefecture--The Japanese wolf, a species thought to have gone extinct more than a century ago, may still roam the rugged mountain terrain of central Japan--but finding solid proof ...

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

On September 22, the "Fude Matsuri (Brush Festival)" event was held in ... a calligrapher writes characters in front of an audience. Japanese original The easy Japanese news is taken from the ...

Japanese is a language isolate, spoken by 121 million people in Japanese archipelago. There are small Japanese communities in American Samoa, Hawaii, North and South ...

Want to learn Japanese by playing video games and watching anime? A band of YouTubers — with the help of modern tools — has made learning one of the world’s most challenging languages into a ...

From a hard-working powder brush to a simple spoolie, these are the tools the professionals recommend. Credit... Supported by By Chanel Parks “The biggest misconception about brushes is that you ...