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“[Foreigners] who specialize in Japanese arts and culture make immeasurable contributions in their fields; without their passion and sensibilities, many of the existing Japanese art forms would have long ago become stale or even died out.”
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“With his back straight and his head up, Thomas Charles Marshall sits down in an arbor overlooking a lotus-filled pond….He slowly reaches for his pear-shaped biwa, a century-old mulberry-wood lute with elaborate mother-of-pearl inlays.”
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“Who wouldn’t want to hear the experiences of a white girl who lived a life that we Westerners have only known through the clouded lens of romantic Orientalism, or ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ or various other media images?”
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“Nature and humanity are brought together in ikebana, the Japanese art of arranging cut flowers. Odile Lundy, a French ikebana master, expresses herself by getting her artistic inspiration from flowers, branches and containers.”
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“Decked out in his broad-brimmed baseball cap, silver necklace and jeans, the young man stands alone on a black stage. With his voice full of emotion, he begins to sing in Japanese….This is Jero, the first African-American enka singer in history.”
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“From behind his shaggy beard, affable British-born Canadian woodblock printmaker David Bull ended our interview at his studio in western Tokyo with what sounded like a challenge….”
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“For Christine Flint Sato, the key to understanding her adopted homeland has been through the world of sumi-e, a Chinese style of water-ink painting adopted in Japan in the 14th century.”
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What does the past look like from 200 miles up? A new generation of archaeologists has found that the history of civilization may look far clearer from the top of the atmosphere….
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Flickr photos of the bas-reliefs at the Bayon temple in Angkor Thom (Cambodia)
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“Jayavarman VII (1125 – 1215) was a [Buddhist] king of the Khmer Empire (c.1181-1215) in present day Cambodia.”
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“The Bayon is a well-known and richly decorated Khmer temple at Angkor in Cambodia. Built as … the official state temple of the Mahayana Buddhist King Jayavarman VII, the Bayon stands at the centre of Jayavarman’s capital, Angkor Thom.”
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“Angkor Thom was the last and most enduring capital city of the Khmer empire. It was established in the late twelfth century by king Jayavarman VII.”
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“AngkorBlog is … about the art and architecture of the Angkor area in Cambodia, including the … temples at Angkor Wat, Banteay Srei, Ta Prohm, Angkor Thom, Bayon, and Preah Khan. It is about the stories, historical and legendary, told by that art.”
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“Angkor Wat? Here’s a translation of Maurice Glaize’s popular and definitive 1944 guide to the Angkor Monuments for free.”
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