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YouTube videos of Kyoto & Nara temples and shrines visit

We published our Tokyo/Japan Explore spots YouTube videos, about “Kyoto & Nara trip”. There are 8 videos about Kyoto & Nara temples and shrines visit. They are about visiting not well known popular tourist spots (some are famous already though),

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Miniature Orizuru art

tiny miniature orizuru

Orizuru is a crane bird made with Origami. Origami is Japanese traditional paper art and kids activities. It is said to be brought to Japan by Buddhist monks around the sixth century, however there is no evidence about this and

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Japanese traditional Emakimono 絵巻物 scrolls and landscape scenery scroll

Making Emakimono style Japanese scenery painting art scroll

Japanese EMAKIMONO style hanging scroll First of all, what is EMAKIMONO?? Emakimono – “E” means “pictures”, “makimono” means “scroll” in Japanese. Emakimono is a Japanese traditional horizontal scroll which tells stories with pictures. From right side, we unroll the scroll

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