This chicken karaage recipe promises full flavor from a soy-and-sake marinade and combines wheat flour, rice flour, and cornstarch for a super crisp crust.
Two of the first particles that you are likely to encounter when learning Japanese are “ni”「に」 and “de”「で」. They are often confused with one another for a couple of fairly obvious reasons: Both can be used to define a place or location Both can be translated into English as “in”, “on” or “at”, depending on […]
The Japanese are world famous for their ancient wisdom and practices. Their rich culture stems from deep observations about life and people, churning out the most incredible sayings that inspire with their simplicity and truth. [...]
A collection of our favourite inspirational quotes from Pinterest. Including some we've turned into typographic prints. Available on paper, canvas or ready to hang wood stretcher framed. You can view our typography print collection here. Or visit our main site for more inspirational typographic art here. Image:
I love the onion soup they serve at Benihana and after a search online to find a good copy cat of the recipe, I promptly made some for tonight’s dinner. It turned out great and was really ea…
When something is “lost in translation,” it could have been due to a simple mistake or due to the fact that one language was not quite able to capture the essence of a word's meaning in another language. This conflict is the idea behind New Zealand-based designer Anjana Iyer's “Found in Translation” series of images, which try to explain the meaning behind words in other languages that have no direct equivalent in English.
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” -Frank Herbert Who are you? What do you stand for? What drives you? I am a warrior at heart. I do not mean a person who glories in battle, or the type to subjugate others to my will. I ... Read more
There is a big difference between 110 vs 120 volts when it comes to electricity, even if most American outlets distribute somewhere between 110 and 120 volts at any given time as the 120 volt power supplied by the electric company often is reduced by up to 10 volts on the way to the receptacle.
Catch a rare video glimpse of Tasha Tudor working in her cottage garden in Vermont, USA. Narration is in Japanese. Garden beauty speaks every language.
Beautiful and untranslatable Japanese words: Japanese has many words which can't be expressed in English. These words reveal a lot about the Japanese soul.
Women of Pampanga province’s patriarchal society have held their own and made their own marks.
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Make a Pair of Shoji (Japanese Sliding) Screens: Let me talk you through how I made this pair of Shoji screens There's a lot of woodworking involved, but nothing too complicated. If you can make halving, and mortise and tenon joints, then you should be able to tackle this I've got a summary build …
I must say, it's hard to avoid the Yayoi Kusama dot pumpkin around the fall time. Searching for pumpkin-inspired art project ideas inevitably reveals this contemporary Japanese artist's dimensional, plump and somewhat psychodelic pumpkins. It's been done, again and again, but I felt it was now my turn... despite the hype. Kusama pumpkins White board instructions and guides, with teacher samples I love the graphic quality, and I particularly love the challenge of drawing contours without lines, by using only dots of various thickness. My kids classes (8-14 year olds) have varying degrees of experience with pen techniques since we did a few projects last year and in the last weeks involving stippling, hatching, and adding texture with pen. This no-lines drawing is not too far off, but definitely in a new direction, and I saw it as an extension of our previous illustration and pen work. Win win. Medium choice: I wanted the results to be super neat and crisp, like Kusama's own work. I knew painting dots with brushes would not give us that crisp quality, and I felt similarly about painting or drawing in the background pattern. So I opted for drawing in the dots with permanent black markers in various thickness, on colored paper. Pumpkins would be cut out and pasted on a background which was painted with a foam roller and stencil with black acrylic paint over top a vibrantly colored paper. With this approach we get the bright color of the pumpkins and the background, the neatly controlled lines of dots with the makers (that's the objective, after all), and the clean patterned background with the stencils. Process Day 1 1. Drawing pumpkins Student had visuals of Kusama's pumpkins as well as photos and illustrations of pumpkins to observe the variety of their form and shape. Simple step-by-step pumpkin drawing guides were also at their desk, so they could see how to break down and simply the drawing steps. I also demonstrated how to draw a pumpkin on the white board, and showed them several different options for shapes. Pumpkins are most easily drawn starting with the central 'section shape', them the section shape to the left and the right, and so on. The stem is drawn slightly tucked down into the top, so is doesn't look like it's sitting on the top contour edge, but rather growing out the pumpkin. Students were encourage to try a few different shapes - tilted, plump, oblong and even with wavy sections.... like Kusama's. We practiced a few rounds of pumpkins on scratch paper. Then we chose our colored paper, and began drawing our favorite version in pencil. 2. Dots Each pumpkin section must be filled with dots in a crisp, systematic fashion. Our dots must create the illusion of form. We analyzed Kusama's work and noted how she uses a row of larger dots at the center of her central section, with increasingly smaller rows of dots on both sides. This gives our section a 3-D shape. The tricky part is addressing the next sections to the left and the right. We noted that Kusama uses large semi-circle, or half-dots, along the outer edge of the first section (where we drew our section line with pencil). From there, the lines of dots get increasingly smaller again toward the other edge. This is repeated for each section. The darker intensity of the large half-dots serves the purpose of creating a strong visual line which separates the sections (thereby replacing our 'line' with 'dots'). *Super important for an effective gradient of dot sizes is using differently sized markers. We used permanent markers with hefty fat tips, medium tips (or a sharpie with a good point) and fine liners in various tops. 3. Stem We observed that Kusama did her stem in the same manner, but in the inverse. So dots are white, and the negative space is black. To achieve this effect, we simply drew open circles with our black pen, and colored the space around our white circles. Pencil lines were erased and pumpkins were cut out. We managed all this in a 90 minutes class. Drawing dots Drawing dots Day 1 results Day 1 results Day 2 Background: Student chose a colored paper that complemented or contrasted with their pumpkin color. Then they chose the stencil of their choice. My stencils are from Marabu. We chose stencils that contrast the dot pattern, so those with a different angular of liner quality. We did not, for examaple, use the stencils with hearts, small stars, circles, etc. because they are visually too similar to our dots. We used black acrylic paint and foam rollers to stencil on our colored paper. In many cases, our stencils were not as large as our paper, so we had to carefully reposition the stencil, lining up the stencil with the printed edge, and rolling again to fill the page. Pumpkins were finally pasted on the printed background, for a visually exciting result. My students were quite wowed by their vibrant, dimensional results, and proud of their hard work and dedication to neatness and precision. Hard work pays off. Ages 8-14 Ages 8-10
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Staying in a ryokan is a uniquely Japanese experience, so it was top of my wish list when drawing up our itinerary for Japan. The one we chose was Fukuzumiro Ryokan in Hakone, a 125 year old traditional wooden ryokan on the picturesque Hayakawa River.
These simply delicious chicken and dumplings have thousands of fans - this family-favorite dinner is my most popular recipe on Pinterest. The chicken stew takes help from a rotisserie chicken, but the dumplings are made from-scratch and practically fool-proof!
A newly-released documentary photo series has captured Japanese businessmen collapsed on the street, exhausted, and intoxicated following crippling work pressures. Tokyo is notorious for its work culture, with employers renowned for pushing staff to commit up to 60 hours per week. As a consequence, many often turn to alcohol as a coping mechanism and a way to let off steam.
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"Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve...You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
A complete guide to the best things to do in Naha, Okinawa including restaurants, shopping, nightlife, beaches and awamori distillery tours.
