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Toward the Unseen: What Noh Offers Beyond Performance

Toward the Unseen: What Noh Offers Beyond Performance

Performing Arts

A story-led interview with Takeda Tomoyuki, a Kanze-school shite-kata Noh performer, on prayer, discipline, and how Noh is handed down today.

Behind the Scenes of Noh with Takeda Tomoyuki

Behind the Scenes of Noh with Takeda Tomoyuki

Performing Arts

This page offers a closer sense of the person, discipline, and atmosphere that surround Takeda Tomoyuki’s world of Noh. Where the interview opened the ideas behind the art, this video page is meant to bring you nearer to its physical presence, quiet tension, and lived texture.

The Sword Polisher Who Chooses Not to Finish

The Sword Polisher Who Chooses Not to Finish

Sword polishing (togishi): conserving Japanese swords centuries old — and the craftsman who hands them to the future.

In the Polishing Room with Nagaoka — Behind the Scenes

In the Polishing Room with Nagaoka — Behind the Scenes

In the polishing room with Nagaoka, a togishi who conserves centuries-old swords by choosing not to finish them — behind the interview, closer to his hands.

The Stroke That Cannot Return: Shukou Tsuchiya on Living a Thousand-Year Art

The Stroke That Cannot Return: Shukou Tsuchiya on Living a Thousand-Year Art

A contemporary sumi-e painter rooted in a thousand-year lineage, on the single stroke that cannot return and a tradition kept alive by renewal.

Behind the Scenes with Shukou Tsuchiya: A Room Behind the Stroke

Behind the Scenes with Shukou Tsuchiya: A Room Behind the Stroke

A short extension of the article. Here the focus shifts from the words to the room — Shukou Tsuchiya's atelier in Higashi-Kitazawa, where ink, washi, a concrete floor, and a small kamidana share a single space. The page leads, at its foot, into a Behind the Scenes video drawn from the same air.

Zen, Beyond Self-Protection: A Conversation with Rev. Taijun Namiki of Kinryuji

Zen, Beyond Self-Protection: A Conversation with Rev. Taijun Namiki of Kinryuji

A head priest in Asakusa on Rinzai Zen—a tradition some 800 years old in Japan—and quietly letting go of the comparing self.

Behind the Scenes: Inside Kinryuji with Rev. Taijun Namiki

Behind the Scenes: Inside Kinryuji with Rev. Taijun Namiki

Behind the conversation lies a temple, a hall, and a way of moving through the day. This page brings you nearer to Kinryuji and to Rev. Taijun Namiki — the wooden interior, the sounds of Asakusa drifting in, and the unhurried gestures around the practice he describes as a slow loosening of the self that keeps comparing.

What Gindendo inherits : Silver, Time and the Meaning of Atsurae

What Gindendo inherits : Silver, Time and the Meaning of Atsurae

Inside Gindendo, a Japanese silversmithing workshop where two generations carry forward over 400 years of craft, care, and cultural inheritance.

Inside Gindendo: A Behind the Scenes Look at Silver, Inheritance, and Atsurae

Inside Gindendo: A Behind the Scenes Look at Silver, Inheritance, and Atsurae

This Behind the Scenes feature offers a more immediate sense of Gindendo’s world: the workshop’s quiet rhythm, the Kamikawa family’s inherited practice, and the idea of Atsurae that shapes their way of making. It is a way of coming a little closer to the people and values introduced in the interview.