Tag: Japanese
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Huge Straw Dinosaurs Invade a Japanese Rice Field
A prefecture in Japan has one of the most interesting uses for leftover rice straw we’ve ever seen… turn it into a huge dinosaur rice sculpture! The Wara Art Festival, which is held every year at the end of August near Niigata, hire local artists to build elaborate straw sculptures over wooden frames. In addition to the Tyrannosaurs…
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Dam Rice Served at a Japanese Restaurant!
When we were little, our mother would frequently tell us not to play with our food. This might be difficult in Japan, however, where restaurants have started offering visitors ‘damukare,’ a special Japanese rice and curry dish. In damukare, the rice is shaped into a mighty dam that protects the diner’s dry food from a devastating…
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Floating Garden in Japan Where Flowers Move Skyward as you Approach
Japanese art collective teamLab have created an incredible floating flower garden installation featuring over 2,300 living flowers in bloom. TeamLab adds: When a viewer gets close to this flower-filled space, the flowers close to the viewer rise upwards all at once, creating a hemispherical space with the viewer at its center. In other words, although the whole…
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Japanese Army Creates HUGE Star Wars Sculpture For Snow Festival
We all know that the Japanese do things a little differently and we love them for it. However some dedicated Star Wars fans in Japan have just created what may be the most epic pieces of Star Wars art that we’ve ever seen! The Japanese Ground Self-Defense Forces’ 11th Brigade used bulldozers to move 3,500…
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Hamsters as Shopkeepers Running Miniature Restaurants and Bars
In his free time, Twitter user @Kawanabesatou creates tiny restaurants and bars for his pet hamsters. The level of detail in the shops is simply wonderful. There are miniature sushi boats, tiny kitchen appliances and a very impressive selection of drinks! Kawanabesatou posts all of the adorable photos on Twitter where you can find nearly 500 photos and…
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Do-It-Yourself Kinetic Origami That Will Blow Your Mind!
Brazil-based origami artist Jo Nakashima has created a method for building an amazing origami object using a system of 40 paper cubes. For those of you ambitious enough to give it a try he shared a set of instructions on Instructables. Just 45 steps! If you’re not familiar with Nakashima, he runs the most popular instructional origami channel on YouTube, with…
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Artist Hand-Cuts Insanely Intricate Paper Art
Japanese artist Akira Nagaya creates insanely intricate paper cuttings called kirie that look like delicate pencil drawings or wire sculptures. Nagaya discovered his talent in his early 20s when he was learning sasabaran – a technique for cutting food decorations from bamboo leaves at sushi shops. When he practiced on his own using paper and…
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Artist Creates Fun Miniature Dioramas Every Day For 4 Years
When children let their imagination run wild, even their food can become a plaything (much to their parents’ dismay). Tanaka Tatsuya, an artist in Japan, never lost that wild imagination – he has created a playful tiny diorama every day for the past 4 years out of food and other everyday items and put them…
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Anatomically Correct & Fully Animated Lobster CARVING!
Ryosuke Ohtake, a young 25-year old sculptor, caused quite a stir recently when he boldly took on the challenge and created an immaculate and animated lobster from wood. What stunned many was that not only was the piece carved from wood (which is considered far more difficult than using copper) but the fact that this…
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Teeny Tiny Bonsai Plants Give New Meaning to the Word Miniature
What happens when you apply of love of small things to an art form that’s already all about small things? In recent years Bonsai – Japan’s art form of growing miniature trees in miniature planters – has undergone a miniaturization trend. Industry experts consider bonsai plants less than 3 cm (about 1 inch) to be particularly difficult,…