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More Than Repair: Elevating Memory with Kintsugi
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March 11, 2018 by katmcdaniel

Humanity can be callous and wasteful, but we often form attachments to things. Can connecting with sentimentality help encourage awareness? …
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Category: Exploring Culture, Videos | Tags: connection, excellence, gold, Japan, kintsugi, makieshi, memorialize, Pitt Rivers Museum, repair, sentimental value, significance, symbols, traditional
What Lies Between: Exploring the Japanese Tea Garden
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January 18, 2015 by katmcdaniel

Transitioning from busy exterior lives to our private lives is difficult. How do we keep a quiet place for ourselves? …
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Category: Being Creative, Exploring Culture, Photoblogs | Tags: elegance, gardening, Japan, openness, path, quietness, resilience, roji, simplicity, space, stone, tea garden
Signs of the Times: Isolation in Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro
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June 14, 2014 by katmcdaniel

Society changes constantly. How do we respond to the alienation and loneliness that result from these changes? Kokoro, which can be …
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Category: Experiences and Impressions, Exploring Culture | Tags: change, competition, education, empathy, humanity, Japan, Kokoro, Meiji period, modernity, Natsume Soseki, resilience, tradition, women
From the Master’s Hand: The Making of a Japanese Ichimatsu Doll
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February 15, 2014 by katmcdaniel

Please enjoy the delightful video below showing the construction of a Japanese Ichimatsu doll. Even without the ability to read the …
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Category: Videos | Tags: attention to detail, beauty, craftsmanship, dollmaking, dolls, ethnic dolls, gofun, human form, humanity, Ichimatsu, Japan, ningyo, proportions
Moments from Other Lives: Thoughts on Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore
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November 9, 2013 by katmcdaniel

Are you attracted to characters and story lines that surprise you? Life doesn’t always make sense and neither does art. Many …
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Category: Experiences and Impressions, Exploring Culture | Tags: characters, collective unconscious, Consciousness, Haruki Marukami, imagination, Japan, Kafka on the Shore, library, memory, mind, resilience, stereotypes, synchronicity
Time to Play With Your Food: The Art of Bento
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July 26, 2013 by katmcdaniel

What happens where creativity, status, and practicality meet? In this case, lunch! Bento encourages you to play with your food. …
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Category: Photoblogs | Tags: art, Being Creative, bento, color, food, history, Japan, parenting, pictures, practicality, status, texture, whimsy
Skill and Confidence: Dragon Painting from Nikko, Japan
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May 1, 2013 by katmcdaniel

In the Japanese town of Nikko, which lies to the north of Tokyo, there is a shop famous for paintings …
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Category: Videos | Tags: confidence, dragon, freehand, imagination, Japan, Japanese dragon painting, Nikko, painting, skill, technique, traditional art

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