MUST SEE! Cultivating Shadows: a slide show
(Really helps you see what Tanizaki describes in In Praise of Shadows)

Japanese House tour

Interior of a main room

A typical garden

Exterior shots

A page on shoji sliding door/windows

Black and white photo of a typical tokonoma

Another view in color of a tokonoma

Some Japanese lamp designs

Traditional Japanese lacquerware

Lacquerware furniture

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Food

Japanese cuisine photo gallery

Japanese desserts, including mizu yokan

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Buildings

Among the temple and shrine pictures here, find one of Chionin temple

My own picture of a Japanese farmhouse with thatched roof in Hirayu village

Photos of old Japan

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Arts

Introduction to Noh drama

Masks from the Noh drama

Kabuki for Everyone

An indroduction to Bunraku

Cosmetics, teeth blackening, and more!

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Aesthetics

Japanese Aesthetics, Wabi-sabi and the Tea Ceremony

From the Introduction to Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers by Leonard Koren

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Miscellaneous

Smithsonian Magazine article on the use of shadows

Read reviews of In Praise of Shadows at Amazon.com

Japanese Cicada Page (Be patient; this one takes time) including audio recordings

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Created by Michael Day
February 15, 2002
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