Dreamers Rise

First Second Books in the US has released the first authorized English-language translation of Hayao Miyazaki's 1983 full-color manga S...

From Jude Isabella's article "From Prejudice to Pride," about the history and current state of the Ainu, in the online Hakai ...

I'm re-posting this piece (with a couple of additional images) for two reasons: because I've just been leafing through my copy ...

Satori Ediciones in Spain has published its second collection of translations into Spanish of the Japanese writer Izumi Kyōka (1873-1939)...

This merits a look: Re-envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th-Century Visual and Material Culture , a new "interactive archiv...

I started reading modern Japanese literature in Spanish translation because there were a couple of books I wanted to read that didn't ...

Kyūsaku Yumeno was the pen name of a prolific Japanese writer who died in 1936 and whose work is apparently relatively little-known in the...

This hand-printed calendar was produced by the Japanese katazome (stencil-dyeing) master Keisuke Serizawa, whose mark can be seen just belo...

Takashi Sasaki is a retired professor specializing in Spanish philosophy, with a number of translations into Japanese of the works of Unam...

Dear Dr. Wight, How have you been since I left M. G. H.? I have arrived at Yokohama at the beginning of last June and I am now with all...

According to the label, these katazome (stencil-dyed) calendar pages were "made by Haruo Kuriyama in Kyoto" and distributed ...

A number of years ago I was invited to deliver a lecture at a summer conference on ethnobotany at the University of Tokyo. It was not my fir...

This postcard was mailed from Noboribetsu on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on May 12, 1914 and addressed to E. J. Thompkins in Alb...

The image above, hand-dated 1905, probably depicts the bell at the Chion-in Temple, which is said to be Japan's largest. It appears to b...

Katazome (stencil-dyed) calendar page by Keisuke Serizawa (1895-1984). (Scanned from a commercially issued reproduction.)

A couple of footnotes to my last post , on Kayano Shigeru's Our Land Was A Forest. Kayano devotes one chapter of his memoir to his work...

About all I knew about this book when I bought it was what was implied in the title: Our Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir. The author, Kay...

I was already finding the repetitive images in these stamps a little disturbing even before I figured out what they were. The topography in ...