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Interview
The Laugh That Comes Later: Ohkura Motonari on Kata, Inheritance, and Seven Centuries of Kyōgen

The Laugh That Comes Later: Ohkura Motonari on Kata, Inheritance, and Seven Centuries of Kyōgen

Theme:
Cultural
Location:
Tokyo (City)
Topic:
Kyogen
Kyōgen actor Ohkura Motonari on holding a 700-year-old comic-theatre form intact.
Video
Behind the Scenes with Ohkura Motonari: Inside Seisho-kai's Kyōgen Practice

Behind the Scenes with Ohkura Motonari: Inside Seisho-kai's Kyōgen Practice

Theme:
Cultural
Location:
Tokyo (City)
Topic:
Kyogen
The interview traced how Ohkura Motonari holds a seven-hundred-year-old form intact. Here, the camera follows him past the words — into the dressing room where masks are handled by hand, and onto the solid hinoki stage where the fan becomes a sword, a cup, a door.
Interview
The Space Between the Flowers ー Kouen Yokoi and the Art of Arranging Emptiness

The Space Between the Flowers ー Kouen Yokoi and the Art of Arranging Emptiness

Theme:
Cultural
Location:
Kanto（Area）
Topic:
Flower Arrangement/Ikebana
Ikebana master Kouen Yokoi on arranging not flowers but the space between them—a craft over a thousand years old.
Video
Behind the Scenes: Kouen Yokoi and the Atelier Where Space Is Arranged

Behind the Scenes: Kouen Yokoi and the Atelier Where Space Is Arranged

Theme:
Cultural
Location:
Kanto（Area）
Topic:
Flower Arrangement/Ikebana
This page offers a closer look at Kouen Yokoi's atelier — the driftwood, the kenzan, and the quiet act of subtracting that define her practice. Where the interview traced her thinking, this video page moves nearer to her hands at work.
Interview
Braiding a Thousand-Year Thread into the Present — The Handwork Philosophy That Yusoku Kumihimo

Braiding a Thousand-Year Thread into the Present — The Handwork Philosophy That Yusoku Kumihimo "Domyo" Continues to Keep

Theme:
Cultural
Location:
Tokyo (City)
Topic:
Textile Arts
A 300-year-old Tokyo workshop braiding silk cord by hand — Kiichiro Domyo on Yusoku Kumihimo and its living history.
Video
Behind the Scenes at Domyo — A Closer Look at the Handwork, on Film

Behind the Scenes at Domyo — A Closer Look at the Handwork, on Film

Theme:
Cultural
Location:
Tokyo (City)
Topic:
Textile Arts
Behind the Scenes at Domyo, the Yusoku Kumihimo house in Ueno, Tokyo. A closer look at Kiichiro Domyo's handwork, with film below.
Interview
Toward the Unseen: What Noh Offers Beyond Performance

Toward the Unseen: What Noh Offers Beyond Performance

Theme:
Cultural
Location:
Tokyo (City)
Topic:
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.
Video
Behind the Scenes of Noh with Takeda Tomoyuki

Behind the Scenes of Noh with Takeda Tomoyuki

Theme:
Cultural
Location:
Tokyo (City)
Topic:
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.
Interview
The Sword Polisher Who Chooses Not to Finish

The Sword Polisher Who Chooses Not to Finish

Theme:
Cultural
Location:
Tokyo (City)
Topic:
Sword Craft
Sword polishing (togishi): conserving Japanese swords centuries old — and the craftsman who hands them to the future.
Video
In the Polishing Room with Nagaoka — Behind the Scenes

In the Polishing Room with Nagaoka — Behind the Scenes

Theme:
Cultural
Location:
Tokyo (City)
Topic:
Sword Craft
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.
Interview
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

Theme:
Cultural
Location:
Tokyo (City)
Topic:
Calligraphy
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.
Video
Behind the Scenes with Shukou Tsuchiya: A Room Behind the Stroke

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

Theme:
Cultural
Location:
Tokyo (City)
Topic:
Calligraphy
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.
Interview
Zen, Beyond Self-Protection: A Conversation with Rev. Taijun Namiki of Kinryuji

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

Theme:
Spiritual
Location:
Tokyo (City)
Topic:
Zen
A head priest in Asakusa on Rinzai Zen—a tradition some 800 years old in Japan—and quietly letting go of the comparing self.
Video
Behind the Scenes: Inside Kinryuji with Rev. Taijun Namiki

Behind the Scenes: Inside Kinryuji with Rev. Taijun Namiki

Theme:
Spiritual
Location:
Tokyo (City)
Topic:
Zen
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.
Interview
What Gindendo inherits : Silver, Time and the Meaning of Atsurae

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

Theme:
Cultural
Location:
Tokyo (City)
Topic:
Metalwork
Inside Gindendo, a Japanese silversmithing workshop where two generations carry forward over 400 years of craft, care, and cultural inheritance.
Video
Inside Gindendo: A Behind the Scenes Look at Silver, Inheritance, and Atsurae

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

Theme:
Cultural
Location:
Tokyo (City)
Topic:
Metalwork
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.