Japanese Artist Illustrates Gigantic Animals Comforting Humans In Hard Times To Warm Your Heart
Most people seem to only refer to spirit animals when watching a viral video of a particularly lazy pug or hungry otter, but Japanese illustrator…
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Watching This Japanese Sign-Maker’s Perfect Handwritten Work In Action Is Just Too Soothing
Along with providing a chance to observe fascinating beauty, traditional art forms in action can sometimes have a hypnotizing and soothing quality to them, as…
Fan Artist Creates Hypnotizing Glitter Sailor Moon Phone Case Inspired By Transformation Sequence
When put in the hands of professionals, tributes to Sailor Moon such as Japan’s Sailor Moon cafe’s colorful menu and figure skating champion Evgenia Medvedeva’s…
Japanese Twitter User Makes Papercraft Gun That Fires Wooden Bullets
If you search around for paper-based arts and crafts on Japanese Twitter, you’ll find a load of fascinating creations such as DIY sushi restaurant houses…
Japanese Twitter User Makes Absolutely Amazing Anime Artwork Using…Excel
Sometimes, the mere thought of opening a spreadsheet instills an overwhelming pang of mundane work-related thoughts in a human being. However, as we’ve seen before…
Inside Tokyo’s Amazing Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Exhibition and Cafe
To celebrate Final Fantasy’s 30th anniversary, a special exhibition is running until 28th February 2018 at the Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo. Source: (C) Grape…
Japanese Artist’s Incredibly Detailed Creations Made Using Only Cardboard
From pop culture icons to every day items, it seems there’s nothing that can’t be cardboard-ified by Monami Ohno. The Japanese artist creates mind-blowingly intricate…
Kyoto Night Club LAB.TRIBE : An Entertainment Space Transcending All Genres
There are a few good night clubs in Kyoto, such as World Peace Love which we saw in our coverage of the Pontocho area last…
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[Update] Professional Anime Artist Turns His Sons’ Sketches Into Amazing Anime Characters
In a series called “Father and Sons Design Workshop Illustrations”, Tokyo-based French anime artist Thomas Romain (Symphogear, Space Dandy, Aria, Macross Delta, and Basquash!) takes…
This 77-Year-Old Japanese Man Is The Michelangelo of Microsoft Excel
The Great Big Story, which has given us fascinating looks at stories in Japan such as the hypnotizing speed of the world’s fastest mochi makers…
Illustrator Turns Kit Kat Flavors Into Gorgeous Anime Characters
Illustrator Cioccolatodorima has a flair for creative artwork, but what he really seems to do well is what’s known in Japan as gijinka (擬人化). Gijinka…
Ukiyo-e Print Bubble Wrap Gives You Art You Can Feel Free To Touch And Pop
Ukiyo-e, which translates from Japanese to “image(s) of the floating world,” is a genre of Japanese art that thrived from the 17th to 19th centuries….
Miniature Sushi Art Looks Good Enough To Eat
Japan made a name for itself internationally with its feats of miniaturization. The thinnest portable audio players, the smallest full-featured still and video cameras, the…
Terrific Tofu Art Creations to Celebrate Tofu Day
Especially in Japan, it seems there are always new ways of eating tofu and new tofu products being created. Traditionally, tofu can be eaten raw,…
Mysterious Objects in Shinto Shrine Are Not Entirely From This World
Twitter user @kulanla, who was visiting Chikato Shrine in Nakanojo, Gunma Prefecture last weekend, came across something completely unexpected… 今日行った神社の謎のオブジェが気になった pic.twitter.com/m5wpKBm5dA — くくら (@kulanla) 2017年9月23日…