Culture

A goshuin book, or goshuinchō (御朱印帳), is a notebook for receiving goshuin (御朱印): seals and inscriptions that record a visit...

Seven deities. Seven different kinds of good fortune. One treasure boat sailing into the New Year. Few images are as...

A long red nose, dark feathered wings, and a fan powerful enough to sweep away misfortune: few figures capture the...

A vermilion torii standing at the edge of a cedar forest, a stone fox watching over a shrine path, the...

The clatter of a train arriving at Nippori Station fades quickly in Yanaka. Within minutes, Tokyo’s glass towers and crowded...

A morning café stop in Japan can begin with the deep, roasted aroma of siphon coffee, continue with a precisely...

A dark wooden façade, a fabric shop curtain stirring above the entrance, and the faint coolness of an earthen-floored passageway...

Tokyo’s most captivating galleries no longer always ask visitors to stand quietly behind a line. Tokyo immersive art trends invite...

A hand-thrown tea bowl can hold centuries of knowledge: the feel of local clay, the heat of a kiln, the...

Stand beneath an old gajumaru in Okinawa and the tree seems to have more than one trunk. Roots descend from...

At the edge of a Kamakura shop, a small frog sits beside the doorway. Perhaps it is glazed ceramic, perhaps...

Outside a Japanese bar, the doorman may be made of clay. He wears a broad hat, holds a flask of...

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