Happy Holidays, everyone! I've made a video version of one of the most popular posts on this blog, the basic visual differences betwe...

If you've never used Rakuten (I have friends who swear by it), it's a collection of online Japanese stores that (usually) speak sim...

After months of wanting to learn Nihon buyo 日本舞踊(traditional Japanese dance), I was lucky enough to find a teacher, the dancer at the taiko ...

If you've never seen any Nihon Buyo 日本舞踊, or "Japanese Dance", NHK's program Japanology did a great episode introducing th...

A beautiful art form and often seen at geisha performances, fans used in dance are called "mai ougi" 舞扇 (my oh gee), "dance-(...