“Bakumatsu Koshashin Generator” makes your picture look vintage. It was created by a Japanese web designer and programmer cararan, who runs a website “Ruriiro Tradition” which introduce Japanese life and…

  Did it pop out from a children’s book? Is this a fairy-tale land? The answer is no. It is a waste treatment plant, where it has an incineration and…

These words are the tattoos written in Japanese shown in the YouTube video below. It is interesting to see tattoos written in Japanese because not so many Japanese care to…

  Mikan is a seedless citrus smaller and sweeter than orange. It is probably called “mandarin orange” in English-speaking countries. Mikan is a winter fruit in Japan and it is…

You may sometimes use cellophane tape at home, work or school; it is part of our life. In Japan, there is an artist who creates 100% cellophane tape art. His…

You may have seen artists drawing people’s portraits like in the photo below.     Today, let me share the story of a man who tries to draw FREE portraits…

As you may know, Japan has a culture of public bathing. It is sometimes very hard for foreigners to accept this concept, but for Japanese people, it is mostly fun…

This website I am going to introduce today provides a wonderful creative tool! You can play with hiragana and kanji characters to create art piece.     You can play…

In Mito city, Ibaraki Prefecture, there is a DNA model like tower, which looks weird against an ordinary townscape.     This 100-meter tower is called Art Tower Mito and…

In 1982, the city of Sapporo began construction of Moerenuma Park on the land where disposal facilities used to be. And in 1988, world-famous sculptor Isamu Noguchi joined the project…

  When you imagine a mermaid, you will draw a beautiful long-haired woman with a fish tail. But illustrations drawn by the Japanese in the 19th century is way different…