5 posts tagged with Japan by clavdivs.
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截金
"The only artist in the world to embed gold leaves in glass, Kirikane."
Yamamoto Akane: 'Making Beauty'.
(slyt) [via The British museum]
Badoraito o itadakimasu.
"When the elevator dings open on the ninth floor of a high-rise in drab West Shinjuku, Tokyo, I don’t know quite what to expect. As the doors to the lift shut behind me, I find myself standing on a rickety outdoor staircase—solo—in the pitch black, fumbling for the handle to a heavy, lacquered wooden door. If this were a fairy tale, I think, I’d be in trouble." Modern Alchemy at Tokyo’s Most Radical Bar. Meet Hiroyasu Kayama bartender extraordinaire of Ben Fiddich in Tokyo.
His 'Award-winning alchemical delights' are simply amazing. Take a look. (slyt) [more inside]
"The only reason for the existence of a print is its intrinsic beauty."
Artist David Bull creates wonderful things. A Canadian wood block carver and printer based in Japan
writes in an introduction page: "The prints you see around me in this photograph are from my 'Hyakunin Isshu' series - a set of 100 prints depicting poets of old Japan. The delightful. 'Easter eggs in Japanese woodblock prints' (yt) Previous post on Bull details his journal. Bulls YouTube channel is worth a gander.
Craft
BBC 4
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