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A Country of Art: Nagasaki’s Internationally Inspired Traditional Arts & Crafts

Japan is filled with incredible and historic forms of art. One glance at our blog [...]

Reviewing Japan’s Ultimate Tea Cup: The Mystery of the Two-Tone Rakuyaki Shiroraku Cha-Wan

Today’s Amateur Vs Expert review has us looking at the most famous Japanese tea cup [...]

The Two Major Schools in Japanese Calligraphy Shodo

There are a lot of Shodo schools exist in Japan. Not only in Shodo calligraphy, [...]

Japanese Art’s Most Famous Winter Scene? My Amateur Vs Professional Review of Maruyama Ōkyo’s “Pine Trees in the Snow”

The beautiful snow-capped branches of the delicate Japanese matsu pine tree; images of Kyoto in [...]

Top 6 Tips For Buying an Ukiyo-e Japanese Woodblock Print in 2018: A Guide

As we have seen here on the OrientalSouls blog, Japanese arts and crafts come in [...]

Black Belt (Kuro-obi) in Shodo – In Which Grade Japanese Calligraphers Are?

Writing characters was invented for practical usage at first, but another usage was developed as [...]

Are They Same or Different? Shodo in Japan, China and Korea

Shodo is a Japanese art. Artist, or people called calligrapher, express beauty by writing. In [...]

Gyotaku Art – A Hidden Spot of Japanese Fish Prints

Gyotaku is a technique to copy the fish you caught. It copies every detail of [...]

National Treasure or Rough Draft? Expert Vs Amateur Review of Famous Japanese Art

Episode 2 in our series of ‘expert vs. amateur’ reviews of Japanese artwork has me, [...]

The Greatest Three Japanese Calligrapher in History of Shodo

The greatest Shodo calligrapher has been called “The Three Brushes” when the word is directly [...]