If you are looking for a modern, unique, and accommodations in Tokyo, you will find the best with the special artist rooms of Park Hotel Tokyo! Park Hotel Tokyo has…

    Handwritten on a signature board with a brush. The meaning of “無病息災(Mubyosokusai)” is to keep being healthy without any disease. This is also the word to pray for…

    For the Japanese brush type color pen I introduced you on this blog the other day, one of my customers has sent us her review. She likes to…

  Are you familiar with Japanese “shodo” (calligraphy)? Shodo has been gaining popularity worldwide, and I am sometimes asked to give advice when it comes to choosing good Japanese fude…

  Japanese calligraphy pen wrapped in gorgeous washi paper. This pen with built-in-ink can be used for Japanese calligraphy. This cool item is invented to use real calligraphy brush more…

– What’s B-LABO? Who’s Bungu-o? –     The king of stationery, Masayuki Takabatake, obtained this mysterious looking box at an antique fair. I see some kanji letters meaning stone, poison,…

  Today, I would like to share  the report of a blogger, Mr. T, about “daimyo procession” held in a swimming pool. Daimyo is “a generic term referring to the…

  A Japanese software company JustSystem which is famous for its word processor Ichitaro presents “online calligraphy wallpaper maker” on its website. It is pretty cool, and you don’t need…

Today’s story-teller is ukulele player and comic chat artist Shinji Maki, 76 years old. Maki likes painting. Especially he likes painting Mt. Fuji. He was past sixty when he started…

Let me introduce a Japanese blog that I often read. The story is about T-shirts. There are many shops that sell T-shirts with kanji (Chinese character) or hiragana. Especially in…

    Can you believe that you can paint the cherry blossoms above in only 5 minutes? There is this video on YouTube instructing how to paint Japanese style cherry…