Part 2 of my video for costumers and cosplayers is up! I include sewing advice and general tips for wearing your costume well. Have a grea...

The city of Kyoto looms large in the Japanese cultural mindset as a place of classical beauty and tradition. The capital of Japan for over a...

So lately I've gotten sucked into the anime Bleach . Yes, I'm amazingly late to the party, but you'll have to forgive me. I have...

The Sengoku (literally "warring states" 戦国) period was a time of chaos in Japan, when just about everybody and his brother was fig...

You may have already seen the two main types of fans in Japan, but do you know their names? Sensu 扇子 are folding fans, and uchiwa 団扇 are t...

When I do kimono panels at anime conventions, my goal is to introduce kimono and traditional culture to fans of pop Japanese culture in a ...

There are a lot of factors that usually go into naming a baby in Japan, one of which is the tradition of trying to achieve a lucky number of...