By Bob Roos|2025-03-28T15:51:09+01:0028th March 2025|Categories: Japan|
Japanese: 間 Ma roughly translates to "gap", "space", "pauze" and relates to the Japanese concept of negative space. In it's simplest interpretation it's the "empty space" in any work of [...]
By Bob Roos|2025-03-28T16:19:38+01:006th August 2018|Categories: Japan, Ryu|
Japanese: 結び目 Knot See also: Hon musubi
By Bob Roos|2020-07-22T15:48:42+02:0013th July 2018|Categories: Japan|
Noren (pronounce by stressing the "e") are traditional Japanese curtains made of cloth used to separate areas. They function as a subtle divider between public and private areas. The print [...]
By Bob Roos|2025-03-02T08:47:35+01:0013th July 2018|Categories: Japan|
Slang; the japanese word for "panties" (panties in a japanese accent).
By Bob Roos|2022-04-16T15:27:32+02:0014th July 2018|Categories: Japan|
Japanese: 流 Simply put a ryū can be described as a style, as in a certain way of doing something or as a school of thought or discipline. See also: [...]
By Bob Roos|2025-03-01T10:37:27+01:0020th July 2020|Categories: Japan|
Japanese: 正座 English: "sitting with a correct posture". Seiza is the formal way to sit in Japan. In a historical context, the correct posture is defined to have neatly-folded legs and [...]
By Bob Roos|2020-07-22T15:47:28+02:0016th July 2018|Categories: Japan|
Japanese: 先生 Teacher, Master, Doctor; he who has gone before. While teaching RopeMarks ryū RopeMarks is the sensei. Keywords: rope marks
By Bob Roos|2020-07-22T15:46:00+02:006th August 2018|Categories: Japan|
Japanese: 標縄 "Enclosing rope". Shimenawa are lengths of laid rice straw or hemp rope used for ritual purification in the Shinto religion. They can vary in diameter from a few centimeters [...]
By Bob Roos|2020-07-22T15:50:57+02:0013th July 2018|Categories: Japan|
Japanese: 侘寂 A Japanese philosophy that extends into all parts of life based in Zen and built on three principles: nothing lasts, nothing ends, and nothing is perfect. "Wabi" means a [...]
By Bob Roos|2025-03-02T08:47:46+01:0013th July 2018|Categories: Japan|
Japanese Traditional Candles Candles where brough into Japan during the Muromachi period (1336-1573) Warosoku, providing warm candlelight, comprise one of the three elements of simple Buddhist ceremonies of [...]
