Art

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Japanese music

Hogaku, traditional Japanese music International interpreters of classical music, including the musicians of the Czech philharmonic, like Japanese audience and also in general a very [...]

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Shamisen (三味線)

Shamisen (or strings-of-three-tastes) is a traditional Japanese musical instrument and its tradition goes far back to the 16th century. Construction: Shamisen is a three-stringed musical [...]

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Jiří Straka

A fascinating oddity on the borderland – ink brushwork from Jiri Straka The phenomenon of ink painting, so intensively Chinese (or sino-cultural), has always been [...]

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Kenjinjuku (賢人塾)

Kenjinjuku (賢人塾) is a yard of dojos standing by the Mount Aso in Kumamoto on the southernmost of the four main Japanese islands – Kyushu. [...]

Kyushu Shakuhachi

Shakuhachi

Shakuhachi is a Japanese flute that was used for centuries as a tool of spiritual practice. Due to its unique sound possibilities and original music [...]

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Japonské básně Haiku

Japanese poems Haiku „The truth cannot be explained by comparison, because it does not include nothing the truth could actually be compared to.“ / Chinese [...]

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Pavel Opočenský

Pavel Opočenský – light and heavenly stone Biography Pavel Opočenský Born in 1954 Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic Studies 1972 SUPŠ (jewelry) College for Design of [...]

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Netsuke

The history of netsuke Because Japanese clothes did not have pockets in the Western way of understanding, the small things – wallet kinchaku, smoking set [...]