The world of Butoh Dance Butoh Dance is a Japanese avant-garde dance originated by HIJIKATA, Tatsumi in 1960s. Japanese version Mika Takeuchi in Grass Reaping Moon (added. May2, 2002) Yumiko Yoshioka Butoh world wide workshops(updated with pamphlets. Mar.8, 2002) Tooru Iwashita (Sankaijuku) in Sapporo on Feb.26, 2002(updated. Jan.18, 2002) ... GooSayTen's video file will be shown soon for the ...

TeaHyakka is a monthly magazine covering all aspects of Japanese Tea Ceremony.

A Brief Introduction to the History of Bunraku by Matthew Johnson Bunraku is the name commonly used for ningyo-joruri, literally puppets and storytelling. This simple name not only describes a puppet performance, but also alludes to its predecessors. There was a long tradition of travelling storytellers who used biwa as their accompaniment. There were also travelling puppeteers. When these two ...

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Kaiseki A Glimpse at Chanoyu by Diana Rosen When tea is made with water drawn from the depths of mind Whose bottom is beyond measure, We really have what is called cha-no-yu. --Toyotomi Hideyoshi, patron of the art of tea, 16th century The Japanese way of tea is synonymous with serenity, order and calm, and that may explain its growing popularity to the Western world. My first experience into ...

GooSayTen A Butoh dance duo in Sapporo, Japan. Itto Morita and Mika Takeuchi. GooSayTen - A contingently realized heaven From Nugamezamari , 1998 (C)Photograph by Katsumi Takahashi, 1998 (Counter: since Oct.1, 1999) ..... GooSayTen 2001 GooSayTen's Butoh thrills Dance report, 2000 GooSayTen 1999 in Germany Ex...it!'99 1999 ..... ...

Anthropoetics 5, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 1999) An Anthropological Perspective on the Japanese Tea Ceremony Herbert Plutschow East Asian Languages & Cultures University of California at Los Angeles Los Angeles CA 90095-1540 plutscho@humnet.ucla.edu Nowadays, many Japanese practice the tea ceremony (Jap. Chanoyu; also designated simply as Tea) according to various agendas. Because Tea avails itself ...

Have you held a chaji You'd say, No, because Im not in Japan or I wish I could but I cant because I dont have a tea room, a tea garden or enough utensils. Well, I don't either. I'm living in a studio apartment in New York City. I don't have a garden, even an extra room. But I hold a chaji at least once a month. It is fun to use your imagination creatively to utilize what you have into tea ...