Interviews
The Masters, in Their Own Words
Conversations from the workshops and stages of Japan's masters: what they make, and why they still make it the old way.
The Stroke That Cannot Return: Shukou Tsuchiya on Living a Thousand-Year Art
Sumi-e painter Shukou Tsuchiya on shitomeru — the single, irreversible stroke — and a thousand-year ink-painting tradition that lives by being renewed, not preserved.
July 18, 2026
Zen, Beyond Self-Protection: A Conversation with Rev. Taijun Namiki of Kinryuji
At Kinryuji, an Asakusa Zen temple, head priest Rev. Taijun Namiki speaks of Zen not as protecting the self, but as a quiet practice of releasing the comparing mind.
July 11, 2026
What Gindendo Inherits: Silver, Time, and the Meaning of Atsurae
An intimate look at Gindendo’s silver craft, where Atsurae, prayer, and inherited time shape objects meant to deepen with use.
July 4, 2026