PUBLIC MARKS with tags art & japon

Handmade kinbaku or shibari (Japanese rope bondage) charms by Kitanya Design Factory in Tokyo, Japan. Each charm is hand painted and hand tied with actual rope. Kinbaku charms can be used as cell phone straps, jewelry, zipper pulls, etc.

Chim↑Pom is a collective of artists formed in 2005 by Eri, Ushiro Ryuta, Hayashi Yasutaka, Mizuno Toshiki, Okada Masataka, Inaoka Motomu. The group is known for advocating works that deal and intervene with the dark sides of "reality in front of the eyes".

A set / Slideshow documenting many of the works by Riusuke Fukahori on show at the ICN Gallery, London, in an exhibition called "Goldfish Salvation". (See also the related gallery Set.)

Mayuka Nakamura, an art student at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, created her own version of Gunkan-maki as part of her senior thesis exhibition. Now that’s a battleship!

shashin.co is a platform dedicated to supporting Japanese Art Photographers who wish to sell their works abroad.

Issei Suda Title, Negative date: Untitled (Women dancing on sand), Late 1970s - 1981 Medium, Print date: Vintage silver print Notations: Signed in pencil on verso

I's important for me to be surprised. Once I get perfection, I think the series will end.

James Turrell planned the place where the West encounters the East. The West meant the comtemporary art that the art by Turrell represented, while the East was defined as a locality based on the topos of this region.

Motoi Yamamoto is a Japanese artist who does installations made of salt. These huge, and incredibly meticulous labrynths are site specific, and the end result is nothing short of amazing.

Wonderful pieces of art and design based on or reminiscent of the famous Japanese woodblock print The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai.

” FANTASIA EROTICA JAPONESA ” Dates : 9 octobre - 11 décembre 2008 Lieu : ARTZ 21 - 21 avingunda Marquès de L’argentera - 08003 Barcelone - Espagne Commissaire d’exposition : Agnès Giard

"And, of course, that is what all of this is - all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song, except perhaps those songs - that song, endlesly reincarnated - born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it. That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket '88', that Buick 6 - same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness." -- Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather