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Fujiwara no Teika (1162-1241) was, by most accounts, a horrible bully. The Japanese nobleman lived through the country's violent transition from the Heian aristocratic era to the martial Kamakura shogunate, and was surly, severe and infamously ugly, as if malformed by the turbulence of his times. But as a poet and editor, Teika has transcended the ages. He compiled Japan's most influential and long-lasting anthology of poems: the Hyakunin Isshu (one hundred people, one poem each), also known as the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. For more than seven centuries, these poems have resonated with countless readers. They...
...culture, Korean drama, Taiwanese literature, Hong Kong celebrities, Thai and Vietnamese cuisine, and Indonesian beach holidays. The interest in pan-Asian culture, from Japan to Burma, doesn't mean the influence of the U.S. has been eradicated. It continues to go hand in hand with Asian culture. Masaki Murata Kamakura, Japan...
...Likewise, two rooms from the early 20th century by a master revivalist named Tanryo Murata demonstrate the frame-breaking creativity possible when an artist is allowed to use entire sets of rooms as his canvas. In one room, Murata painted scenes from a deer hunt?a common Kamakura-period pastime that frequently took place at the foot of Mount Fuji?in the finely detailed and colorful Yamato-e style, which emphasizes the horses' musculature and bowmen's straining faces. But look through a doorway created by parting two screens in the hunting room and the viewer sees that the next...
...energy levels can be difficult at best. Sometimes it's a matter of pure luck. Kelly Stratman's parents were in Tokyo for a week, and to keep them entertained, she and her husband, Stephen, transformed themselves into tour-guide extraordinaires. They planned visits to the Meiji Shrine, Kamakura's Great Buddha and the Yokohama waterfront, rented a car for an overnight trip to the Izu peninsula, and even scheduled a New Year's Day viewing of the Emperor at his palace...
...DIED. TOSHIKAZU KASE, 101, pragmatic Japanese diplomat who participated in the signing of Japan's surrender to the U.S. in 1945; in Kamakura, Japan. Educated at Amherst College and Harvard University, Kase held key posts in Japan's Foreign Ministry before and during World War II. After the war he became a staunch American ally, championing the U.S.-Japan alliance and serving as Japan's first ambassador...