Japan Trip: from Ties to Kimono, Nishijin Textile Center, Kyoto 113 Moopon
Visitors interested in Kyoto’s traditional textiles may be interested in visiting the Nishijin Textile Center. The center is located in a modern-style building where visitors can view demonstrations and exhibits featuring Nishijin textile industry as well as historical material. There are hand-weaving demonstrations as well as six kimono shows daily. For a nominal fee, visitors are allowed to dress up as a maiko, geiko in a junihitoe (12 layered kimono).
There is a large shopping area where visitors can explore through the beauty of the gorgeous Nishijin textiles.
Facility Information:
Hours: 9:00 to 17:00
Closed: Opened All Year Round
Admission: Free
Access Information:
**Nearest Bus Stop: Horikawa-Imadegawa bus stop
**Nearest Station: Imadegawa Station. From the station, Nishijin Textile Center is a 10 minute walk.
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Kyoto International Manga Museum: Where to read manga all day
Japan Anime Market have recently opened a shop inside the Kyoto International Manga Museum in Kyoto. Our reporter Hisayo is on the trail to show you what's available and also provide a guide throughout the museum.
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The Kyoto International Manga Museum was founded as a joint project of Kyoto City and Kyoto Seika University to collect, preserve, and exhibit manga materials, and conduct research into manga culture, for the purpose of holding exhibitions and events based on the research of these manga materials which are attracting attention from around the world.
This museum is a new kind of cultural facility that concurrently performs library functions and museum functions. Manga materials preserved in the museum's collection consist of approximately 300,000 items (as of 2016); from caricature woodblock prints of the Edo period (18th century), to magazines of the latter half of the 19th century and the pre-war time; as well as books ranging from post-war rental books to modern popular series and publications from abroad.
The results of ongoing research based on these materials are made public through exhibitions, seminars, and workshops held by the museum.
The museum is housed in the Showa era building of the former Tatsuike Elementary School, preserving its historical appearance, and thus representing the role that the school has played as a longtime symbol of the region.
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Kyoto Travel Guide - Experience Japan
Kyoto Travel Guide - Experience Japan
Kyoto (京都) was the capital of Japan for over a millennium, and carries a reputation as its most beautiful city and the nation's cultural capital. However, visitors may be surprised by how much work they will have to do to see Kyoto's beautiful side. Most first impressions of the city will be of the urban sprawl of central Kyoto, around the ultra-modern glass-and-steel train station, which is itself an example of a city steeped in tradition colliding with the modern world. Nonetheless, the persistent visitor will soon discover Kyoto's hidden beauty in the temples and parks which ring the city center, and find that the city has much more to offer than immediately meets the eye.
Though dwarfed in size by other major Japanese cities, Kyoto is vast in terms of its rich cultural heritage - the material endowment of over a thousand years as the country's imperial capital. The city's numerous palaces, shrines, temples and other landmarks are spread out over the following districts:
Central - Site of Nijō Castle (a former residence of the Tokugawa shōguns) and the stately grounds of the Imperial Palace. The district's southern end is anchored by the massive glass-and-steel building of the city's main gateway, Kyoto Station.
Arashiyama (Western Kyoto) Set against the beautiful tree-covered hills of Arashiyama, this district is rich in both historic and natural wonders.
Higashiyama (Eastern Kyoto) estled between the Kamo River and the temple-studded mountains of Higashiyama, this area's many attractions include the famed geisha district of Gion and the historic sites strung alongside the well-known Philosopher's Path.
North Graced with scores of centuries-old shrines and temples, including several World Heritage Sites. One of Kyoto's most famous attractions - the magnificent gilded pavilion of Kinkaku-ji - can be found here.
South This district covers a large part of Japan's former capital, stretching from the Ōharano area in the west to Fushimi-ku, Daigo, and the southern tip of Higashiyama-ku in the east.
Nestled among the mountains of Western Honshu, Kyoto was the capital of Japan and the residence of the Emperor from 794 until the Meiji Restoration of 1868, when the capital was moved to Tokyo. During its millennium at the center of Japanese power, culture, tradition, and religion, it accumulated an unparalleled collection of palaces, temples and shrines, built for emperors, shoguns, and monks. Kyoto was among the few Japanese cities that escaped the allied bombings of World War II and as a result, Kyoto still has an abundance of prewar buildings, such as the traditional townhouses known as machiya. However the city is continuously undergoing modernization with some of the traditional Kyoto buildings being replaced by newer architecture, such as the Kyoto Station complex.
The sheer size of the city of Kyoto, and the distribution of tourist attractions around the periphery of the city, make the city's public transport system invaluable. Kyoto offers an incredible number of attractions for tourists, and visitors will probably need to plan an itinerary in advance in order to visit as many as possible.
Kyoto has a wide range of accommodation, much of it geared towards foreign visitors. During peak seasons, such as the cherry blossoms in April or during Golden Week when accommodation is difficult to get, consider staying in Osaka. A thirty minute train ride from Kyoto Station to Osaka Station will cost you ¥540 one way. Since Kyoto is a major tourist destination, demand is high and prices follow suit.
A lot to see in Kyoto such as :
Kinkaku-ji
Arashiyama
Kiyomizu-dera
Nijō Castle
Gion
Higashiyama Jisho-ji
Kyoto Imperial Palace
Nishiki Market
Heian Shrine
The Philosopher's Path (Tetsugaku no michi)
Yasaka Shrine
Ryōan-ji
Tenryū-ji
Toji
Nanzen-ji
Maruyama Park
Kyoto Tower
Rengeoin Sanjusangendo
Togetsu-kyō Bridge
Arashiyama Monkey Park Iwatayama
Kōdaiji Temple
Byodoin
Eikan-dō Zenrin-ji
Shimogamo-jinja Shrine
Daigoji
Kifune Shrine
Ponto-chō
Ninna-ji
Kitano Tenmangū Shrine
Katsura Imperial Villa
Mount Hiei
Chion-in
Enryakuji
Sanzen-in Temple
Kyoto Botanical Gardens
Kyoto International Manga Museum
Higashi Honganji
Saiho-ji
Tōfuku-ji
Kurama-dera
Kennin-ji
Kyoto National Museum
Hōkanji Temple (Yasaka-no-Tou)
Daikaku-ji
Sanneizaka (Sannenzaka)
Toei Kyoto Studio Park
Mount Kurama
Shōren-in
Shugakuin Imperial Villa
Jōjakkōji Temple常寂光寺
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United States takes over Japanese Atomic Research Laboratory Kyoto, Japan. HD Stock Footage
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Sixth Army Headquarters Military Personnel leaving building, getting into jeeps and driving off, in Kyoto, Japan. Scene of atomic laboratory at Imperial University of Osaka. Scenes show cyclotronic and other atomic equipment. Dr. Kikuchi, a leading physicist of Japan, discusses some papers with a United States Officer. Location: Kyoto Japan. Date: November 20, 1945.
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The Art of Japanese SHIBORI [DVD] sample version
Introduction: 11 shibori techiques
Director: Kyoto Shinori Museum
Release year: 2017
Language : Japanese / English
Time : 40 minutes each language
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*Digest of the process of Shibori *Hon-hitta shibori *Hari-hitta shibori *Oke shibori *Boushi shibori *Nuishime shibori *Kago-rouketsu shibori *Tatsumaki shibori *Te-kumo shibori *Miura shibrori *Mishin shibori
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Begin Japanology Ikebana (NHK Documentary)
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Japanese Gardens in Japan Japanology (日本庭園 nihon teien)
Japanese gardens (日本庭園 nihon teien) are traditional gardens whose designs are accompanied by Japanese aesthetic and philosophical ideas, avoid artificial ornamentation, and highlight the natural landscape. Plants and worn, aged materials are generally used by Japanese garden designers to suggest an ancient and faraway natural landscape, and to express the fragility of existence as well as time's unstoppable advance.
Ancient Japanese art inspired past garden designers. By the Edo period, the Japanese garden had its own distinct appearance.
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JAPAN Blockprinting Kyoto
Part of Japanese Journey, a 53 minute film made by Don Fairservice and Mitsue Nagashima during a tour of Japan. Music composed by Jean Hasse/Visible Music
Stunning Style Houses, Where the Craftsmen's Intelligence is Infinite to Resist the Harsh Weather
Stunning Traditional Style Houses, Where the Craftsmen's Intelligence is Infinite to Resist the Harsh Weather.
Shirakawa-go is located in the north-western part of Gifu Prefecture, in the approximate center of Japan.
In December 1995, Shirakawa-go was registered as the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the “Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama”.
The most unique registration area is the gassho style settlements in Shirakawa Village Ogimachi in Gifu Prefecture.
They are famous for their traditional gassho-zukuri farmhouses, some of which are more than 250 years old.
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Here is a young man who connects Japanese tradition to the future:
Kayabuki Craftsman: Tanaka Eisaku (田中 栄作さん)
Born 1984 in Gifu Prefecture
Teacher: Wada Shigeru (和田 茂さん)
Tanaka-san was born in Shirakawa-go and grew up in a Gassho-style house.
He studied under Wada Shigeru, who was responsible for the restoration of Shirakawa-go's thatch roof, and since then he has been working hard to improve skills.
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masahiko kimura bonsai collection
masahiko kimura bonsai collection
Masahiko Kimura (木村 正彦 Kimura Masahiko, 1940-) was born in Ōmiya-ku, Saitama, Japan on March 31, 1940 and is a widely recognized bonsai master. He is not related to the judo practitioner also named Masahiko Kimura.[1]
His father died when Masahiko was 11. By the wishes of his mother, at age 15 he started spending his time as an apprentice under the bonsai master Motosuke Hamano of Toju-en Bonsai Garden. This was for eleven years until about 1966. (Kimura would later say that during his teens he really wanted to be a rock and roll musician.)[2][3] After this he took to working in the horticulture field on his own.
He went on to become known as the Magical Technician of Kindai Shuppan.[4] (Kimura has said that he personally doesn't really care for the title of Magician.)[5] His breathtaking sculpting and styling of trees on behalf of that Kyoto bonsai magazine publisher was done using hand and power tools of his own design. His skill with carving deadwood quickly made him well known in the bonsai community.[4] While his work was at first highly controversial, his energy and vision soon became as respected as his art. A characteristic of his trees is a defined interplay of artistically sculptured deadwood with a smaller amount of more traditionally appearing live wood snaking up from the soil to foliage apex. Many of his trees have a more elaborate starkness than is ordinarily found in the wild, innovatively creative without historic model
MIHO MUSEUM in Japan designed by I.M.Pei
The Miho Museum is located southeast to Kyoto, near the town of Shigaraki, in Shiga Prefecture.
I.M.Pei design the Miho Museum. I. M. Pei's design, which he came to call Shangri-La, is executed in a hilly and forested landscape.
In 2017, 2018 Pre-Spring Cruise Collection of LOUIS VUITTON was hold at Miho museum.
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Kyoto celebrates its imperial past
(26 Oct 2010) SHOTLIST
Heian Shrine, Kyoto, October 22nd 2010
1. Various of Participants in The Festival of the Ages (Jidai Matsuri) preparing to depart for the Imperial Palace.
Heian Shrine, Kyoto, October 21st 2010
2. Set up shots of Minamiboujo Takahide
3. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Minamiboujo Takahide, Priest at Heian Shrine
The Festival of the Ages began the year that the Heian Shrine was completed. This was 1895 1,100 years after Kyoto became the Imperial Capital.
Heian Shrine, Kyoto, October 22nd 2010
4. Procession leaves Heian Shrine for the Imperial Palace.
Gosho Imperial Palace, Kyoto, October 22nd 2010
5. Part of the procession reaches the Imperial Palace.
6. Festival participants wait for the Shinto Ceremony to begin.
7. Women in traditional dress wait for ceremony to begin.
8. Various of Shinto ceremony that takes place before the main procession sets out for the return journey to the Heian Shrine.
Heian Shrine, Kyoto, October 21st 2010
9. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Minamiboujo Takahide, Priest at Heian Shrine
The fundamental concept behind the Festival of the Ages was to create a festival that was unique to Kyoto and couldn't be staged anywhere else in Japan or anywhere else in the world.
Gosho Imperial Palace, Kyoto, October 22nd 2010
10. Procession leaving the Imperial Palace. 1st group portray soldiers of the Imperial army at the time of the Meiji Restoration (1868.)
11. Pan of Otsukaiban, administrators in the imperial government.
12. Princess in the Imperial Court during the late Edo period. (Edo era 1603-1868.
13. Foot soldiers in Oda Nobunaga's army. (Late 16th century.)
14. Zoom in on participant dressed as Oda Nobunaga (16th century Shogun.)
Heian Shrine, Kyoto, October 21st 2010
15. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Minamiboujo Takahide, Priest at Heian Shrine
This isn't simply a costumed parade. The costumes that participants wear are replicated with the same materials and according to the same processes as the era that they belong to. Each garment or accessory is aimed to be as close to a contemporary original as possible. The standard to which the costumes are made mean that they would not be out of place in a museum.
Gosho Imperial Palace, Kyoto, October 22nd 2010
16. Various of section of the procession representing Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ox drawn carriage.(Aizuchi Momoyama period 1568-1600.)
17. Various of the section of the procession representing the Yoshino period (1333-1392.)
Yamanouchi elementary school gymnasium, Kyoto, October 21st 2010.
18. Pan of members of the Yamanouchi elementary school PTA (Volunteers who wore the costumes of the Yoshino period during this year's festival)
19. Set up shot of Yamashita Kiyoshi.
20. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Yamashita Kiyoshi, director of the Yoshino section of the procession
The costumes are all made from funds donated by the citizens of Kyoto city.
21. Various of PTA members practicing putting on their costumes for the parade on the following day.
Kyoto City centre, October 22nd 2010
22. Various of procession making its way through the city centre.
23. Zoom in on Yoshino section of the parade approaching the Heian Shrine .
24. Wide of Yoshino section of the parade approaching the Heian Shrine's main gate.
25. Yamashita Kiyoshi on the final stage of the procession.
Heian Shrine, Kyoto, October 22cnd 2010
26. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Yamashita Kiyoshi, director of the Yoshino section of the procession
It amazes me that people in the past went into battle in the kind of armour, helmets and clothing that we are wearing.
27. Participants pose for a group photograph after the procession.
28. Participants resting after procession.
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【Uji】GENJI FANTASY brand new film: A Cat falling love with Hikaru Genji@The Tale of Genji Museum
4th April 2019@The Tale of Genji Museum, Uji City, Kyoto, Japan
GENJI FANTASY ANIME A Cat falling love with Hikaru Genji
The Tale of Genji Museum in Uji City, Kyoto has just aired a short film blending history and fantasy on 2nd April 2019, the story follows a modern high school girl named Hana who is transformed into a cat and transported back in time.
She travels 1,000 years ago to the Heian Era as portrayed in The Tale Of Genji, arguably the most famous novel in Japanese literature. Guided by the novel's titular character Hikaru Genji,
Hana experiences firsthand the emotions that the author Murasaki Shikibu depicted in her novel. The short features scenes based on The Diary of Lady Murasaki and other historical materials, such as the real-life noble Fujiwara no Michinaga swiping early drafts of The Tale Of Genji because he could not wait to read chapters as Murasaki wrote them.
Japan Travel: The Art of Fabric at the Nishijin Textile Center, Kyoto 113
Japan Travel: The Art of Fabric at the Nishijin Textile Center, Kyoto 113
Visitors interested in Kyoto’s traditional textiles may be interested in visiting the Nishijin Textile Center. The center is located in a modern-style building where visitors can view demonstrations and exhibits featuring Nishijin textile industry as well as historical material. There are hand-weaving demonstrations as well as six kimono shows daily. For a nominal fee, visitors are allowed to dress up as a maiko, geiko in a junihitoe (12 layered kimono).
There is a large shopping area where visitors can explore through the beauty of the gorgeous Nishijin textiles.
Facility Information:
Hours: 9:00 to 17:00
Closed: Opened All Year Round
Admission: Free
Access Information:
**Nearest Bus Stop: Horikawa-Imadegawa bus stop
**Nearest Station: Imadegawa Station. From the station, Nishijin Textile Center is a 10 minute walk.
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Kyoto shopping streets, Sannenzaka, Ninenzaka, Kiyomizuzaka, Japan travel video
In Kyoto, Japan, we're going shopping on the lanes near two major temples, Kiyomizu-dera and Ginkaku-ji. There are some small shops inside the temple but the main action for shopping is outside on the pedestrian lane leading up to the temple as you find typically throughout Japan. A main temple has a shopping street leading to it, something like the inevitable gift shop at the exit of the museum.
Ceramics are one of the very popular items for sale here and they are made not only in Japan but a lot of it is made right in the Kyoto area, it's a local specialty.
Of course you'll find all of the typical items for sale: fans, trinkets, miniature samurai figures and figurines. You can buy handbags and purses made from kimono material. Perhaps a Japanese print or a painting to hang on your wall. But some careful shoppers have noticed the prices on these touristic lanes are little higher than you'll find in downtown and the selection is pretty much the same everywhere, so keep that in mind. But when you're shopping, if you see something you love, just get it. You might never find it again.
It's a fun diversion on your way up to the temple to shop along the way to Ginkaku-ji, but really the shopping lane over by Kiyomizu-dera is hard to beat.
Conserving Japanese Works of Art in Foreign Collections
Learn more about the exhibition Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156—1868, on view at the Met October 21, 2009 — January 10, 2010:
Norio Suzuki, Director-General, National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo
This is the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to the arts of the samurai. Arms and armor is the principal focus, bringing together the finest examples of armor, swords and sword mountings, archery equipment and firearms, equestrian equipment, banners, surcoats, and related accessories of rank such as fans and batons. Drawn entirely from public and private collections in Japan, the majority of objects date from the rise of the samurai in the late Heian period, ca. 1156, through the early modern Edo period, ending in 1868, when samurai culture was abolished. The martial skills and daily life of the samurai, their governing lords, the daimyo, and the ruling shoguns will also be evoked through the presence of painted scrolls and screens depicting battles and martial sports, castles, and portraits of individual warriors. The exhibition concludes with a related exhibition documenting the recent restoration in Japan of a selection of arms and armor from the Metropolitan Museums permanent collection. This is the first exhibition ever devoted to the subject of Japanese arms and armor conservation.
This Sunday at the Met is supported by the Japan Foundation.
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Women's Army Corps visit National Museum in Tokyo in Japan
Women's Army Corps officers drive in a hand driven rickshaw being pulled by Japanese men in Tokyo in Japan. Four WAC officers walk up the steps in Ueno Park. Two officers are seen with a Japanese girl wearing a Kimono. They look at pottery in the window of a store and visit the National Museum. Location: Tokyo Japan. Date: December 11, 1949.
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Fukui City History Museum, Fukui | Japan Travel Guide
Fukui City History Museum ( 福井市立郷土歴史博物館 )
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The history of Fukui City from prehistoric times to the postwar recovery period is commented upon by theme. Valuable materials from the Edo Era including heirlooms and writings of the reigning Matsudaira clan of Fukui are also on display. Visitors can also enjoyably learn about the history and culture at a section where you can experience the costumes and tools of the Edo Era.
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Yokokan Garden
Fukui Castle Ruins
Happiring
Ichijōdani Asakura Family Historic Ruins
Maruoka Castle
Eihei-ji Temple
Tōjinbō
Echizen Ōno Castle
Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum
Yamanoshita Temple Group
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A Japanese Steam Train. Hot. Filthy. AWESOME!
Driving a steam train is filthy work. It's hot and stressful and it doesn't even pay that well. And totally worth it...
Once there were over 1000 steam trains in Japan. Today there are just eight left. They’re extremely difficult to operate. The steam train is a fickle beast. To get it going in the morning you have to start feeding it a diet of wood and water two hours before you actually want to leave.
Steam trains used to carry coal and other raw materials. Nowadays their cargo is mostly tourists, though I think they’re missing out on the best part – riding up front.
You have to prime the accelerator several minutes before you need the power. If you let it get too hot then you either have to dump your precious steam or risk blowing the boiler up. And - you have to know the track. What’s coming next. How steep it is, and how much coal you’ll need to get your cargo to the top. It’s an endless balancing act.
It’s filthy work. So why do they do it? Because every day, when other people go to work, they get to climb on board and watch the countryside roll by aboard the world’s best toy – their very own, full-sized steam train.
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