Japanese battleship Musashi — Musashi leaving Brunei in October 1944 for the Battle of Leyte Gulf Career … Wikipedia
Japanese bondage — This article is about consensual sexual bondage. For other uses, see Slavery in Japan. Kinbaku (緊縛?) means tight binding Kinbaku bi (緊縛美?) which literally means the beauty of tight binding … Wikipedia
Hemp — This article is about industrial hemp. For its psychoactive variant, see Cannabis (drug). For the biology of the plant, see Cannabis. For other uses, see Hemp (disambiguation). The variety of appearances for cannabis. Only C. sativa (left) is… … Wikipedia
Japanese tea ceremony — Tea ceremony The Japanese tea ceremony, also called the Way of Tea, is a Japanese cultural activity involving the ceremonial preparation and presentation of matcha, powdered green tea. In Japanese, it is called chanoyu (茶の湯) or chadō ( … Wikipedia
Japanese kitchen — Daidokoro (台所;lit. kitchen ) is the place where food is prepared in a Japanese house. Until the Meiji era, a kitchen was also called kamado (かまど; lit. stove) and there are many sayings in the Japanese language that involve kamado as it was… … Wikipedia
Japanese handicrafts — The many and varied traditional handicrafts of Japan enjoy official recognition and protection and, owing to the folk art movement, are much in demand. Some enjoy status as a meibutsu or regional specialty. Each craft demands a set of specialized … Wikipedia
Japanese clothing — The various traditional ethnic garments worn in Japan are still in use, they are mainly worn for ceremonies and special occasions like weddings or festivals. Both men and women favor western style clothing in their daily lives due to the… … Wikipedia
List of Japanese tea ceremony equipment — Some implements for tea ceremony. From bottom left: chashaku (tea scoop), sensu (fan), chasen kusenaoshi (whisk shaper), chasen (bamboo whisk) and fukusa (purple silk cloth) This is a list of articles used in Japanese tea ceremony. Please add… … Wikipedia
kanshitsu — ▪ Japanese art (Japanese: “dry lacquer”), technique of Japanese sculpture and decorative arts in which a figure or vessel is fashioned with many layers of hemp cloth soaked with lacquer, the surface details being subsequently modelled with… … Universalium
kyūdō — ▪ Japanese archery (Japanese: “way of the bow”),formerly Kyūjutsu (“the technique of the bow”), traditional Japanese form of archery, closely associated with Zen Buddhism. When firearms supplanted the bow and arrow in warfare, the art of… … Universalium
arts, East Asian — Introduction music and visual and performing arts of China, Korea, and Japan. The literatures of these countries are covered in the articles Chinese literature, Korean literature, and Japanese literature. Some studies of East Asia… … Universalium