Storyboard / Culture
Some relationships last decades—rooted in commonality and the shared loneliness among foreigners wandering the countryside—outsiders to the Japanese community.
A couple of puppies shape this child's life, teaching the importance of caring for those whose lot in life is significantly different from human avatars—an important study session—the subject of investigation—the meaning of life.
Understanding a language rooted in its cultural context can be challenging for someone coming from an opposing conceptual spectrum—one shaped by the Western Age of Enlightenment with its distinct narrative structures.
The beauty is profound, thousands of generations, pebbles have become magnificent stones covered in moss.
年越し蕎麦—toshikoshi soba A traditional Japanese dish eaten on New Year's Eve. Buckwheat noodles symbolize the release of past hardships and the welcoming of a fresh start in the new year.
The samurai salaryman of the roaring 80s had plump, juicy expense accounts—¥100,000 on company-sponsored nights out in the nooks and crannies of bars, snacks, and soapland—making business deals while carousing around, blind to the natural flow of things—as surely as the party starts, surely it will end.
True fortune is in the locus of the beholder, ban butsu, life in all things, organic, visceral, and surreal, exceptionally good fortune of pure energy had The Little Girl delivering the original Omega grandson to Kizuna Jinja Main Gate.
The urge to merge—Kind-Necessary-True—with Form-Order-Process—leaves not much left, but one small step—and without further ado—a gift from us to you—the evolution of creative communication solutions.
The reanimation of two distinct constitutions has recently come to the forefront, causing significant stir and commotion—heralding societal evolution, the bifurcation of civilization, and the emergence of neo-clans with expanding global communities.
Understanding the Japanese protocol of Form Order Process facilitates creation of articles culturally familiar, thus worthy of the attention of the fickle Japanese.
Bight eyed and bushy tailed, the prospect of what would come from this isolation here in the Land Of The Rising Son was not imagined nor actively sought, it is what happens when you reject the notion of institutionalised drudgery.
This profound realization resonated like a major chord, a direct revelation not to be taken lightly or conjured up on a whim—attaining serenity, rising above pettiness, and definitively ascertaining the meaning of life—ban butsu—infinite life in all things.
The Japanese have always embodied the notion to seek reason, ideas, and guidelines from Outside Worlds, internalising the findings, setting objectives for the newly acquired objects their affection—this is the Way of the Japanese.
Every morning is a brand new page and the story to tell is what will describe the daily profile for a new chapter written in honour of one more incredible day.
Understanding the significance of class and the importance of societal harmony based upon this notion has not been lost on this wayward classless boy.
When having a deeper ponder on the meaning of the necktie—remember its origins are due to a mandate of a long dead seven-year old boy—the reach of his influence stifling the spirit of the necktie tribes even now in this modern day.
Born into the Satsuma clan twenty-one years before the 1868 Meiji Restoration ended the Tokugawa Shogun’s rule, very few Japanese could have ever foreseen such an abrupt end to over two centuries of peace, or the crucial role the Satsuma clan would play in the transition to Westernized Industrialization.
One can observe this Universal Truth in the timeless branches of Japanese eternity, which is represented by the lives of all Japanese people—living—dead—unborn—and in the lives of those whose final destination is enlightenment into the Japanese Way.
All guest, no matter what class or status, were there united in a common purpose—to consume the masterful cooked Toricho chicken-on-a-skewer—among many other home-style cooking of the Japanese country kitchen.
Certainly in Japanese, the concept of face embodies significantly deeper implications than conceptually available to Occxies who only communicate using Latin based languages—particularly those featuring singular and plural and countable and non-countable nouns.
The never ending flow of enchanting four-character compounds—yojijukugo—is a source of endless fascination. Frequently, these salient phrases are embedded with profound wisdom, moral lessons, and cautionary decrees—which are to be ignored at one’s own peril.
One can see the Japanese in droves at the airport—dutifully line up in strict order waiting for the start of their 5 nights/6 day whirlwind tour of the pristine Rocky Mountains of Canada—the turning of the leaves in what is arguable the most spectacular natural phenomena in Mother Nature.
She perches on ‘Rose Throne’ preening and posing as she view the subjects of her domain with steely eyes. Never one to back down from a fight, she is capable of icy stares, which would make the Satan himself retreat to safer grounds.
Seeing these traditional shops when first coming to Japan in the late 80s brought back fond memories of days growing up in central Central British Columbia in the 60s and 70s.
