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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.
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
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.