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...Isetatsu A family business since 1864, the dollhouse-like Isetatsu sells brightly colored chiyogami paper decorated with woodblock prints, and other stationery reminiscent of old Edo. Tel: (81-3) 3823-1453, 2-18-9 Yanaka...
...anyway.)Still, it’s been a wild ride. Enriched by the core, we can now answer questions like, “Are numbers magical? Is this art and/or literature I’m encountering an A, B or C? What would this look like as a Japanese woodblock print?” No, we can’t figure out that tip, but we can detect it medically. Are those dinosaurs attacking our city? Let’s talk to their relatives and see if we can work something out.Above all, we our indebted to our classes...
That's where Japan's duality comes in. It is a nation that does not always find it easy to change, to embrace the future. In Tokyo's Ota Memorial Museum of Art this month, there is an exquisite exhibition of ukiyo-e woodblock prints displaying Japan during the Meiji Restoration in the late 19th century, when Western habits - European music and military uniforms, crinolines - were beginning to replace the old ways. In one print, a woman in traditional kimono and lacquered hair watches wistfully as a young girl, hair flying behind her, joyfully rides a bicycle...
...there is in Japan always a nostalgia for a supposedly simpler past rather than an unpredictable future. In Tokyo's Ota Memorial Museum of Art this month there is an exquisite exhibition of ukiyo-e woodblock prints by Yoshu Chikanobu, displaying Japan during the Meiji period when Western habits - European music and military uniforms, guns, crinolines - were beginning to replace the old ways...
...Matsui's pursuit of aesthetic pleasure is something Japan's traditional craftsmen understood well. Few nations imbue objects with as much import as Japan does. Tokyo must be the only government that designates the best potters or woodblock printers as Living National Treasures, or, to use the formal name, Bearers of Important Intangible Cultural Assets. The appellation currently applies only to artisans whose crafts have not strayed from the confines of the past. But with younger Japanese now introducing the world to updated versions of ancient culture, Japanese bureaucrats might do well to expand the definition. The new "Made...