Anybody who has visited Japan will have seen Fukuzawa Yukichi on nearly a daily basis, though they may not know it. His serious face and stalwart image is indeed involved in many everyday transactions. Even if you haven’t set foot even close to Japan yet, then the first few pages of a textbook on Japanese [...]
ようこそ! Welcome to my Japanese aesthetics mini-series. This is my second series to date (click here for Japanese Shorts), and I thought that this time I would dig deep and tackle a pretty hefty subject face on. I’ve been giving this subject much thought for quite a while now, and there have been a million [...]