Kokucho(The national bird)/ Buntfasan
Kokucho(The national bird) The bird that represents Japan is the pheasant. Native to Japan, the pheasant has been a familiar bird to the...
Kabuki
Kabuki no butai (Kabuki stage) Kabuki stage has a number of unique installations. The elevated runway is a passage built as an extension...
Ikebana / Kado 華道
Kado, Ikebana (Flower arrangement) Kado is a traditional Japanese art that has flourished since the sixteenth century. Also called...
Nishiki-Koi / 錦鯉
Koi(Carp) Koi are believed to be fish capable of climbing upstream against rapid currents and overcoming all manner of obstacles, hence...
Japanisches Essen
Sakana (Fish) The Japanese archipelago, encircled by the sea, abounds in marine products. Fish in particular is essential to the Japanese...
Kaiseki / Japanese Kaiseki Cuisine
Kaiseki-ryori (Tea lunch) Kaiseki refers to a heated stone that a Zen priest holds to warm the chest. Just as a small stone cannot...
Judo / 柔道
Judo Judo is one of Japan's representative techniques of hand-to-hand combat. About one hundred years ago KANO Jigoro reshaped...
Children's Day / Tango no Sekku
Kodomo-no-hi(Children's Day) May 5 is Kodomo-no-hi. Originally it was called Boy's Festival and was for celebrating boys' growing up, but...
ORIGAMI / Senbatsuru
Senbazuru Senbazuru is a string of a thousand paper cranes. It is usually sent to a person who is ill or injured as a prayer for...
Sukiyaki すき焼き
Sukiyaki This is a typical contemporary Japanese dish featuring beef. There was the Japanese cultural belief, following Buddhistteaching,...