Japanese Style

Japanese Style

Where can I find home decorations with a Japanese style?

I’m moving into a new apartment and would like to pull together a light Japanese theme around mostly contemporary styles. I’ve looked around online and can’t find anything which might provide what I’m looking for.

Does anyone have any suggestions on where to look for this type of home decoration?
Ikea has nice furniture and while I’ve already selected my bed from there, there isn’t much in the way of Japanese styles. Also, I’m not on the West Coast so that does me little good.

Much of the decor from the Arts & Crafts themes have a Japanese style. It’s a straight line design with no frills. The wood is often cherry or teak. It’s quite beautiful in its simplicity.
Good luck!

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Pattern Sourcebook, Japanese Style

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Easy Japanese Quilt Style

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Offers step-by-step instructions, patterns, and illustrations for patchwork and quilting projects that showcase Japanese fabrics.

Style Shifting in Japanese

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This innovative and interdisciplinary book on style shifting in Japanese brings together a wide range of perspectives and methodologiesincluding discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and functional linguisticsto look at a variety of types of style shifting in both spoken and written Japanese discourse. Though diverse in approach, the contributions all reflect the belief that language use is inextricably linked to both context and language structure in mutually constitutive relationships. Topics covered include shifting between “polite” and “plain” styles, the emergence of a “semi-polite” style, speakers’ strategic use of gendered styles or regional dialects, shifting between different deictic expressions, and prosodic shifting. This careful and detailed examination advances our understanding of the complex phenomenon of style shifting not only in Japanese, but also more generally, and will be of interest to researchers and students in fields such as linguistics, linguistic anthropology, communication studies, and second language acquisition and teaching.

Japanese Family-Style Recipes

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This beautifully illustrated collection of fifty-three recipes represents the best of Japanese home cooking, ranging from soups and main dishes to snacks and desserts. You’ll find mouth-watering Chicken-and-Egg Donburi, delicious Yellowtail Teriyaki, and

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Turning Japanese

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Japanese Taupe Quilt Blocks

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A companion volume to our bestselling Japanese Quilt Blocks , this book focuses on using the traditional Japanese neutral and taupe colours which are so much a part of the Japanese aesthetic and are so popular today. As in the first book, the author shows the reader how to design quilts using styles and colours to create beautiful, Japanese-style quilts. The book covers materials, colour and patterns and then moves on to equipment and techniques such as piecing by machine, part-sewn seams, half squares and corner squares, applique methods and finishing – embroidery and embellishments as well as joining blocks and finally assembling. The book is very different from the first volume in that it uses a completely different range of colours and provides the reader with 125 new patterns.

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Japanese Styles

Kyudo, Kyokushin Karate, Shootfighting, Puroresu

Kyudo

This archery system is based on the ancient bowmanship techniques of hunters and warriors, but today is practiced primarily for physical and spiritual development.

As traditional battlefield arts declined, military teachers of the arts found themselves unemployed and so began to teach civilians the skills that they had developed. With the advent of this new profession came the birth of artistic, intellectual, and spiritual martial arts.

There are now two important aspects to kyudo, the military branch and the ceremonial branch. Although the study of the art was banned by occupation forces in Japan after World War II, in 1949 the All Nippon Kyudo Federation was formed and a manual was released to codify the practice.

Kyokushin Karate

This is a violent, full-contact form of karate that includes kicking to the head, head butts, and punches. The founder, Masutatsu Oyama, led a colorful life, and believed that self-improvement could be achieved through hard training and discipline. A Korean immigrant to Japan, Oyama suffered a number of humiliating race-related beatings, which led to a mental breakdown. He retreated to the mountains for a number of years, where he put himself through a brutal training regime that included hurling himself against rocks, carrying heavy weights, and fighting with bears and bulls.

Kyokushin practitioners fight without gloves or protective body armor, believing that protection diminishes the realism. However, in competition, head, elbow, and hand strikes to the head and neck are banned.

Although moderate injuries are common, serious ones are quite rare. The most common injuries sustained by fighters are fractures-particularly to the sternum-broken clavicles, and general bruising.

In 2004, a blockbuster movie was made in Korea, based on the life of Masutatsu Oyama. While the movie is not a true biography (the story has all the elements of a Hong Kong action movie, along with a heavy dose of the sentimentality and melodrama often associated with Korean filmmaking), it does capture the spirit of the man and has plenty of awe-inspiring martial-arts sequences. The movie also boasts stunning choreography and cinematography.

Shootfighting

Created as a response to the wave of popularity of kickboxing in Japan, shoot fighting includes boxing and wrestling techniques.

The governing body, the Shooto Organization, was formed in 1985. International competitions are common and are governed by the International Shoot Fighting Association (ISFA).

Biting, head butting, and striking in the groin or back of the head are considered fouls, as are attacking an opponent who is falling or recovering from a fall. A victory is decided on points either when a fighter is unfit to continue, a regulation is violated, the referee deems the match too dangerous to continue, or there is a knockout or technical knockout.

Puroresu

Less gimmicky than its US and UK counterparts, Japan’s equivalent of World Wrestling Federation utilizes a number of moves similar to those in shoot fighting.

Japan’s first pro wrestler was a former sumo, Sorakichi Matsuda. Although not particularly successful, he is credited with making the sport popular. It was not until the advent of television in 1951 that Japan had its first pro wrestling star, Rikidozan.

Matches take place in a square ring. Like other forms of spectator wrestling, participants often climb onto and jump off the ropes or use the ropes’ elasticity as a springboard to launch into their opponent. Matches are won via knockouts, submissions, ring counts, or pinning.

Variations on the standard ring are the six-sided ring, and the ring with barbed wire instead of rope.

This is not considered seriously dangerous to the health of the fighter, but does result in cuts and minor flesh wounds to competitors, adding an element of blood lust.

There is also a female branch of the art that is gaining in popularity, known as joshi puroresu.

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