Jun Sato (November 1, 2017)
Herwig Baumgartner introduces Jun Sato, currently conducting a workshop at SCI-Arc with Elena Manferdini’s design studio, noting his parallel professional work at Jun Sato Structural Engineers, and his research work at the Jun Sato Laboratory, University of Tokyo.
Jun Sato characterizes his interest in engineering structures with slender elements as derived from nature, especially the effect captured by the term komorebi (sunlight filtering through leaves).
He describes a series of collaborations with architects, including
•Park Groot Vijversburg, Netherlands visitor center, with architect Junya Ishigami (2017)
•Extreme Nature greenhouses for the Venice Biennale, Junha Ishigami (2008)
•Kawatana Onsen Community Center, Shimonoseki, Japan, with Kengo Kuma (2010)
•Cloud Arch , Sydney, with Junya Ishigami (2019)
•House NA, Tokyo, Japan, with Sou Fujimoto (2010)
•New Hakushima Station, Hiroshima, Japan, with Kazuhiro Kojima / Cat (2015)
Sato discusses a series of projects with Kengo Kuma employing modified traditional kigumi woodworking techniques: Prostho Museum Research Center (2010), Sunny Hills in Aoyama Tokyo (2013), and Carved Tower, Vancouver (2017).
Sato describes his research projects at various universities in terms of effects found in nature. Not only komorebi, but also sazanami (ocean ripples within the total seascape), and seseragi (quiet river stream in a natural setting). He attempts to reproduce these effects using spectrum analysis and optimization software he has developed. He describes workshops including:
•Nebuta tree house, University of Tokno (2015) lightweight structure of washi paper and steel string
•Transparent structure as perceptual filter, Stanford (2015) with high strength glass panels
•Komorebi Pavilion, Harvard (2017)
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Japanese Vending Machines Exposed ★ ONLY in JAPAN #03 日本の自動販売機
Vending machines are one of the first things visitors see when they arrive in Japan. Colorful, convenient and almost anything that can be sold in one.
In this episode, we look at a wide variety of machines. From fully digital drink machines to the unusual vending machine like canned hot ramen and bread-in-a-can in Akihabara, we tour Japan to check them all out. The why and how of vending machines.
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The vending machine lunch was about US$10.00
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George Takei: Tokyo's Startups — A New Era of Innovation| Takei's Take Japan
In Tokyo, George experiences a traditional Japanese tea ceremony and meets with a new guard of entrepreneurs, who are changing the tech game throughout Japan. Fresh start-ups are forging a new path of technology innovation that is revolutionary, but still distinctly Japanese.
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Japan Travel: Chestnuts, Art and Flowers in Obuse Town, Nagano40 Moopon
Japan Travel: Chestnuts, Art and Flowers in Obuse Town, Nagano40 Moopon
Obuse, located in Nagano Prefecture, is a quaint town with many interesting places for visitors to explore. During the Edo Period, this town was filled with art and culture. Presently, visitors can see evidence of its roots with the wide variety of art museums, sake brewery, stores and restaurants. Visitors may be interested to stroll the “Chestnut Road”, so named as the road is lined by chestnut trees with architecturally traditional buildings in the background.
Obuse was the home to the genius ukiyo-e painter, Katsushika Hokusai during his senior years. Takai Kozan, a wealthy merchant/artist, invited Hokusai to stay in Obuse. As a result, Hokusai was able to leave several masterpieces reflecting his time in this town. At the Hokusai Museum, visitors are able to view Hokusai’s ceiling paintings, scrolls, sketches and more.
Facility Information:
Hours: 9:00 to 17:00 (until 16:30 from November to March)
Closed: December 31st to Jan 1st
Admission: 500 yen (museum only)
1000 yen (combination ticket to include Obuse Museum/Nakajima Gallery and Takai Kozan Museum)
Hokusai’s mentor and friend, Takai Kozan’s former residence, now known as the Takai Kozan Memorial Museum, is also a visit worthy spot in Obuse. The museum houses several of Kozan’s painting which display Japanese ghosts and goblins. Visitors can also see Kozan’s calligraphy work as well. Kozan’s house is also a remarkable piece of architectural work, with hidden rooms and secret passages.
Facility Information:
Hours: 9:00 to 18:00 (until 17:00 from October to March)
Closed: December 31st
Admission: 300 yen (museum only)
1000 yen (combination ticket to include Hokusai Museum and Obuse Museum)
Outside the town center, visitors will find the Obuse Museum and Nakajima Chinami Gallery. The Obuse Museum is a contemporary art museum which features local artists as well as the floats used in the town’s festivals. The displays are on a temporary basis.
The Nakajima Chinami Gallery is dedicated to works of Nakajima Chinami, a leading figure in contemporary Japanese art. Over 400 of her works, donated to the museum are on permanent display at the gallery.
Note: The museum and gallery are connected and admission places to both is included in the ticket price.
Facility Information:
Hours: 9:00 to 18:00 (until 17:00 October to March)
Closed: December 29-31
Admission: 500 yen (museum and gallery only)
1000 yen (combination ticket to include g Hokusai Museum and Takai Kozan Museum)
In addition to museums, several traditional shops as well as trendy restaurants can be found in Obuse. This town has a unique “My Garden” program. The restaurants as well as private residents allow visitors to explore their gardens. Gardens participating in the “My Garden” program will have a placard inviting visitors to explore their grounds.
Being rich with beauty, visitors may wish to visit the Floral Garden Obuse. This Western based botanical garden has walkways leading visitors through the various floras on display. Ponds, well maintained lawns as well as a greenhouse can be found within the grounds. There is restaurant on the premises with a gift shop to purchase souvenirs.
Facility Information:
Hours: 9:00 to 17:00 (last entry at 16:30)
Closed: Thursdays from January to March as well as during the New Year holidays
Admission: 300 yen (from May to October)
200 yen (from November to April)
Obuse produces many delicious fruits such as apples and grapes. However, among the local produce, Obuse is best known for their chestnuts. Having a history of over 600 years, this town is famous for this chestnut rice, chestnut jelly, chestnut cream and even chestnut ice cream. Visitors will find many shops and restaurants within the town, especially along Chestnut Road, serving these products.
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Great Buddha of KAMAKURA | Best SHIRASU-DON | Japan Vlog Day 8 | Part II
This year my daughter and I took a trip for 10 days to Japan. It was a non-stop, culture and tummy filled adventure with caffeine kicks in between kind of trip. It was really tiring but fun as hell!
HERE'S DAY 8 PART II of our Japan adventure!
In this video, we explore Kamakura. Kamakura is a city in Kaganawa Prefecture and is just less than an hour away from Tokyo via train. The atmosphere is laid-back perhaps due to the fact that it's coastal and Enoshima is its close neighbor.
It's also famous for its Grand Buddha statue and shirasu. Don't leave Kamakura without sampling this. Shirasu (しらす) is a delicacy in Japanese cuisine which commonly consists of baby Sardine or any whitebait fish. It's either served raw or boiled with salty water. But in this video you will see us looking for Shirasu-don served tempura style. Truly worth the trip! It's definitely one of our most memorable meals in Japan!
Our Japan trip is coming to an end and it's almost bittersweet. Don't want it to end but at the same time I'm grateful to experience Japanese culture and eat local authentic dishes this country has to offer. We would definitely come back and stay longer. Ten days is not enough!
Places we visited.
1. Komachi Street
〒248-0006 Kanagawa Prefecture, Kamakura, 小町
2. Kamakura Karari
〒248-0005 Kanagawa Prefecture, Kamakura, Yukinoshita, 1 Chome−８−２５ 鎌倉からり
3. Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū
鶴岡八幡宮
〒248-8588 Kanagawa-ken, Kamakura-shi, Yukinoshita, 2 Chome−１−３１
4. Kamakura Komachi Dori Shopping Area
〒248-0006 Kanagawa-ken, Kamakura-shi, Komachi, 1 Chome−５−６ 1 248 0006
5. Kōtoku-in
〒248-0016 Kanagawa-ken, Kamakura-shi, Hase, 4 Chome−２−２８
6. Verve Coffee Roasters
〒151-0051 Tōkyō-to, Shibuya-ku, 渋谷区Sendagaya, 5 Chome−５−２４−５５ NEWoMan新宿
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Beer Review #400: Tamamura Honten Shiga Kogen & Chichibu Distillery - The Far East (Japan)
Review of The Far East, a Barrel Aged Imperial House IPA aged in Chichiby distillery casks, from the Tamamura Honten Shiga Kogen beer range.
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Onomichi, kuil jalan setapak yang terkenal di Hiroshima Jepang.
Onomichi (尾 道) adalah sebuah kota kuno yang terletak di sepanjang laut pedalaman Seto di kawasan timur prefektur Hiroshima . Kota ini memanjang dari daratan ke beberapa pulau-pulau tetangganya, dihubungkan oleh jembatan Shimanami Kaido. Feri Kecil beroperasi antara pusat kota dan pulau-pulau sekitarnya, menambah suasana nostalgia kota pelabuhan Onomichi ini. Kota Onomichi dikelilingi banyak lereng dengan banyak kota disekelilingya. Banyak obyek wisata di sekitar lereng dan pengunjung harus berjalan melewati jalan setapak yang membelah daerah pemukiman untuk mencapai 25 kuil. Meskipun kecil, kota Onomichi telah membuat kontribusi yang signifikan untuk dunia sastra dan sinema. Penulis dan sutradara terkenal lahir di kota ini , dan telah menjadi lokasi syuting untuk berbagai film dan drama televisi. Sejarah ini tercatat di sejumlah museum di seluruh kota. Salah satu obyek wisata yang paling unik dari Onomichi adalah Shimanami Kaido. Jembatan yang dilewati untuk mencapai pulau-pulau yang ada di Laut Pedalaman Seto.Adalah satu-satunya akses antara pulau utama Jepang, Honshu, dengan pulau Shikoku yang bisa dilewati oleh pengendara sepeda dan pejalan kaki. Ada banyak fasilitas disediakan untuk mereka seperti tempat penitipan sepeda, dan bengkel sepeda. Kota ini sangat ramah bagi para pengunjungnya Sepanjang perjalan ada dua objek yang menarik yang bisa dinikmati pengunjung yaitu Museum Hirayama dan Kosanji yang tak kalah unik *
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【ENG SUB】Harutaka: An apprentice of Sukiyabashi Jiro! The excellent EdoMae skills! (Sushi⑯)
The master, Harutaka Takahashi studied under the world famous Sukiyabashi Jiro for 10 years. The restaurant is located in the corner of Ginza 8Chome and Ginza Corridor. Inside the restaurant is very content with only private rooms and a bar. The Nigiri is prepared with his outstanding skills using the top ingredients.
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Shinto | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:41 1 Types
00:06:51 2 Theology and cosmology
00:07:02 2.1 iKami/i
00:09:44 2.2 iKannagara/i
00:10:27 2.3 iAmenominakanushi/i
00:12:20 2.4 Creation of Japan
00:14:33 2.5 Impurity
00:15:28 2.6 Purification
00:16:20 3 Afterlife
00:18:16 3.1 Shinto funeral
00:19:03 4 Shrines
00:21:21 4.1 Notable shrines
00:23:36 5 Practices
00:23:45 5.1 iOmairi/i
00:25:37 5.2 iHarae/i
00:26:16 5.3 iMisogi/i
00:27:25 5.4 iImi/i
00:28:05 5.5 Amulets and talismans
00:30:16 5.6 iKagura/i
00:36:29 6 History
00:36:38 6.1 Historical records
00:37:48 6.2 Origins
00:41:15 6.3 Jōmon Period
00:42:22 6.4 Yayoi Period
00:44:06 6.5 Kofun Period
00:46:02 6.6 Asuka Period
00:47:49 6.7 Hakuho Period
00:49:49 6.8 Nara Period
00:51:59 6.9 Syncretism with Buddhism
00:53:14 6.10 iKokugaku/i
00:54:39 6.11 State Shinto
00:58:03 6.12 Post-war
01:00:27 6.13 Sect Shinto
01:01:00 7 See also
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Shinto (神道, Shintō) or kami-no-michi (as well as other names) is the traditional religion of Japan that focuses on ritual practices to be carried out diligently to establish a connection between present-day Japan and its ancient past.Shinto practices were first recorded and codified in the written historical records of the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki in the 8th century. Still, these earliest Japanese writings do not refer to a unified religion, but rather to a collection of native beliefs and mythology. Shinto today is the religion of public shrines devoted to the worship of a multitude of spirits, essences (kami), suited to various purposes such as war memorials and harvest festivals, and applies as well to various sectarian organizations. Practitioners express their diverse beliefs through a standard language and practice, adopting a similar style in dress and ritual, dating from around the time of the Nara and Heian periods (8th–12th century).The word Shinto (Way of the Gods) was adopted, originally as Jindō or Shindō, from the written Chinese Shendao (神道, pinyin: shéndào), combining two kanji: shin (神), meaning spirit or kami; and michi (道), path, meaning a philosophical path or study (from the Chinese word dào). The oldest recorded usage of the word Shindo is from the second half of the 6th century. Kami is rendered in English as spirits, essences, or gods, and refers to the energy generating the phenomena. Since the Japanese language does not distinguish between singular and plural, kami also refers to the singular divinity, or sacred essence, that manifests in multiple forms: rocks, trees, rivers, animals, places, and even people can be said to possess the nature of kami. Kami and people are not separate; they exist within the same world and share its interrelated complexity.As much as nearly 80% of the population in Japan participates in Shinto practices or rituals, but only a small percentage of these identify themselves as Shintoists in surveys. This is because Shinto has different meanings in Japan. Most of the Japanese attend Shinto shrines and beseech kami without belonging to an institutional Shinto religion. There are no formal rituals to become a practitioner of folk Shinto. Thus, Shinto membership is often estimated counting only those who do join organised Shinto sects. Shinto has about 81,000 shrines and about 85,000 priests in the country. According to surveys carried out in 2006 and 2008, less than 40% of the population of Japan identifies with an organised religion: around 35% are Buddhists, 3% to 4% are members of Shinto sects and derived religions. In 2008, 26% of the participants reported often visiting Shinto shrines, while only 16.2% expressed belief in the existence of a god or gods (神) in general.According to Inoue (2003): In modern scholarship, the term is often used ...
Riben Guizi (Japanese Devils)
A documentary recording the testimony of fourteen former Japanese soldiers as they recount atrocities and war crimes committed during the Second World War, including the infamous Unit 731 medical experimentation group. Having been trained by their country to be nothing but killers, the soldiers claim to have become morally numb and unable to see non-Japanese as even human. Perhaps feeling some remorse for what they have done, they now choose to tell their stories for the world to hear.
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Premium Films (Australia) (theatrical)
Union Générale Cinématographique (UGC) (1989) (France) (theatrical)
Angelika Films (1990) (USA) (all media) (subtitled)
Artificial Eye (1990) (UK) (all media)
Films sans Frontières (France) (DVD)
Fox Lorber Home Video (1998) (USA) (DVD)
Fox Lorber Home Video (2001) (USA) (VHS)
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Ritka Video (2010) (Czech Republic) (DVD)
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Mr and Mrs Shizuma, and their niece Yasuko, make their way through the ruins of Hiroshima, just after the atomic bomb has dropped. Five years later, Yasuko is living with her aunt and uncle, and her senile grandmother, in a village containing many of the bomb survivors. Yasuko does not appear to be affected by the bomb, but the Shizuma's are worried about her marriage prospects, as she could succumb to radiation sickness at any time.
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Brand New KONE TM110 Escalators - Badung Market, Denpasar, Bali, ID
A ride of almost all the escalators at brand new Badung Market. Of the 12 escalators, only 10 were running at time of filming. The non-working ones serve B1 and B2, I didn't film them as there is no point of filming them. I think the reason why they weren't working is because B2 wasn't open yet. Also I wish people could stop throwing litters and annoying cigarettes onto the escalators - just look at one of them which managed to get a tissue stuck at the other end, and it was only a day since it first ran. See if you can spot more throughout the video.
This video was filmed just a day after the market was officially opened to the public. It was (re)built to replace the old market on the same land that was destroyed by a fire in early 2016 and had to be demolished. There are 6 elevators and 12 escalators in the building, all were built by KONE. However, only half of the elevators were working at time of filming. Coming soon for the video of the service elevator at the back of the market which was running in attendant's control mode.
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Jocko Podcast 133 w/ Echo Charles: The Horrors of Unit 731
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Shinto | Wikipedia audio article
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Shinto
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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Shinto (神道, Shintō) or kami-no-michi (among other names) is the traditional religion of Japan that focuses on ritual practices to be carried out diligently to establish a connection between present-day Japan and its ancient past.Shinto practices were first recorded and codified in the written historical records of the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki in the 8th century. Still, these earliest Japanese writings do not refer to a unified religion, but rather to a collection of native beliefs and mythology. Shinto today is the religion of public shrines devoted to the worship of a multitude of 'spirits', 'essences' (kami), suited to various purposes such as war memorials and harvest festivals, and applies as well to various sectarian organizations. Practitioners express their diverse beliefs through a standard language and practice, adopting a similar style in dress and ritual, dating from around the time of the Nara and Heian periods (8th–12th century).The word Shinto (Way of the Gods) was adopted, originally as Jindō or Shindō, from the written Chinese Shendao (神道, pinyin: shéndào), combining two kanji: shin (神), meaning 'spirit' or kami; and michi (道), 'path', meaning a philosophical path or study (from the Chinese word dào). The oldest recorded usage of the word Shindo is from the second half of the 6th century. Kami is rendered in English as 'spirits', 'essences', or 'gods', and refers to the energy generating the phenomena. Since the Japanese language does not distinguish between singular and plural, kami also refers to the singular divinity, or sacred essence, that manifests in multiple forms: rocks, trees, rivers, animals, places, and even people can be said to possess the nature of kami. Kami and people are not separate; they exist within the same world and share its interrelated complexity.As much as nearly 80% of the population in Japan participates in Shinto practices or rituals, but only a small percentage of these identify themselves as Shintoists in surveys. This is because Shinto has different meanings in Japan. Most of the Japanese attend Shinto shrines and beseech kami without belonging to an institutional Shinto religion. There are no formal rituals to become a practitioner of folk Shinto. Thus, Shinto membership is often estimated counting only those who do join organised Shinto sects. Shinto has about 81,000 shrines and about 85,000 priests in the country. According to surveys carried out in 2006 and 2008, less than 40% of the population of Japan identifies with an organised religion: around 35% are Buddhists, 3% to 4% are members of Shinto sects and derived religions. In 2008, 26% of the participants reported often visiting Shinto shrines, while only 16.2% expressed belief in the existence of a god or gods (神) in general.According to Inoue (2003): In modern scholarship, the term is often used with reference to kami worship and related theologies, rituals and practices. In these contexts, 'Shinto' takes on the meaning of 'Japan's traditional religion', as opposed to foreign religions such as Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and so forth.
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Shinto
Shinto , also kami-no-michi, is the indigenous religion of Japan and the people of Japan. It is defined as an action-centered religion, focused on ritual practices to be carried out diligently, to establish a connection between present-day Japan and its ancient past. Founded in 660 BC according to Japanese mythology, Shinto practices were first recorded and codified in the written historical records of the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki in the 8th century. Still, these earliest Japanese writings do not refer to a unified Shinto religion, but rather to a collection of native beliefs and mythology. Shinto today is a term that applies to the religion of public shrines devoted to the worship of a multitude of gods , suited to various purposes such as war memorials and harvest festivals, and applies as well to various sectarian organizations. Practitioners express their diverse beliefs through a standard language and practice, adopting a similar style in dress and ritual, dating from around the time of the Nara and Heian periods.
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