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What are Netsuke? Meet the animals of the Japanese Zodiac

The twelve zodiac animals—rat, ox, tiger, hare (rabbit), dragon, snake, horse, sheep (goat), monkey, rooster, dog, and boar (pig)— represent the twelve-year cycles in Asia.
visual arts • 05 Dec 24

In The Picture: Edo in Colour at the Chester Beatty

visual arts • 18 Jun 21

A Word In Edgeways: Sand in My Pockets by Jean Pasley

Spirit • 14 May 21

Black Dragonfly by Jean Pasley - read an extract

Books • 21 Apr 21

Review: A Gap in the Clouds - Japanese poems translated

Poet and translator have done a highly impressive job, working through the undergrowth and the overgrowth of the Japanese Tanka, the short poems that comprise the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, the 100 Poems by 100 poets which were complied around 1235.
Books • 09 Mar 21

Japanese Story - the IFI celebrate Ozu, Kurosawa and beyond

Kevin Coyne of the Irish Film Institute introduces Japanese Story, the IFI's new season celebrating the finest cinema from Japan over the decades...
Film • 09 Feb 21

Reviewed: Travels With A Writing Brush

This fascinating compendium gathers 1,000 years of Japanese travel writing, involving perilous treks over mountains and along dangerous shores, with intense poetic epiphanies guaranteed.
Books • 20 Dec 19

Review: The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

The far-spreading branches of narrative diversity that is Japanese literature make this 500-page work a superb anthology, opening windows on to different epochs, while affirming the lot of our common humanity.
Books • 22 Aug 18

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