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ARCHITECTURE
& DESIGN IN JAPAN
Contemporary
and modern architecture,
design,
exhibitions, architects & designers in Tokyo and Japan,
including:
Tadao
Ando, Atelier Bow Wow, Shigeru Ban, Luis
Barragan, Benesse
Art Site Naoshima, dRMM, Foreign
Office Architects, Buckminster
Fuller, Antoni
Gaudi, GA Gallery, Holl, Arata
Isozaki, Klein
Dytham, Koolhaas, Kuma,
Kurokawa, Konstantin
Melnikov, Nishizawa, Jean
Nouvel, Predock,
Sambuichi, Space Invaders, Yoshio Taniguchi, Urban Salon, Hideaki
Uchiyama
Traditional
architecture in Tokyo, including:
Josiah
Conder, Dojunkai, Edo-Tokyo
Open Air Architectural Museum (Tatemono-en), Kyu
Iwasaki-tei Gardens,
minka
ART
IN JAPAN
Tokyo
art guide
Tokyo
gallery guide
Tokyo
museum guide
Art and architecture bookstores
in Tokyo:
Aoyama Book
Center,
Charles
E. Tuttle, Global Architecture, Kinokuniya, Nadiff, On Sundays, Parco
Book Center, Tokyo Random Walk, TOTO
Art
museums, art galleries and art organizations in Tokyo
&
Japan:
Arts Initiative Tokyo (AIT), Complex (Roppongi),
Design Festa, Edo-Tokyo
Open Air Architectural Museum (Tatemono-en), eyesaw, Faret
Tachikawa, Gallery of Horyu-ji Treasures, Gallery Side 2, Hiromi Yoshii
Gallery, Japan Folk Crafts Museum (Nihon Mingei-kan), Kenji Taki
Gallery, Koyanagi Gallery, Kyu
Iwasaki-tei Gardens, Meiji Kaigakan,
Mizuma Art Gallery, Mori Art Center, Mori Art Museum, National Museum
of Modern Art, National Museum of Modern Art Film Center, Ota Fine
Arts, Rice Gallery, Roentgenwerke, SCAI the Bathhouse, Shiseido
Gallery, Shokuryo, ShugoArts, Taka Ishii Gallery, Taro Nasu Gallery,
The Gallery Saatchi & Saatchi, Tokyo art guide, Tokyo gallery
guide, Tokyo museum guide, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Wako Works of Art,
Watari-um Museum of Contemporary Art, Yokohama Triennale
Contemporary
art and modern art exhibitions and artists in
Tokyo
& Japan:
Makoto Aida, Doug Aitken, Nobuyoshi
Araki, Benesse Art
Site Naoshima, Emily Carr, Henry Darger, Atul Dodiya, eyesaw, Olafur
Eliasson, Johannes Itten, Martin Kippenberger, Masakatsu Kondo,
Shintaro Miyake, Mariko Mori, Daido Moriyama, Takashi Murakami,
Yoshitomo Nara, Jorge Pardo, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg,
Gerhard Richter, School of Paris, Taro Shinoda, Toko Shinoda, Manit
Sriwanichpoom, Mongolia, Suda, Nakamura, Thomas Demand, Yamaguchi,
Shimabuku, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Yasumasa Morimura, Yokohama Triennale,
Mori Art Museum, Muneteru Ujino, Venice Biennale, Tadanori Yokoo,
Andrea Zittel
Film
exhibitions and filmmakers in Tokyo:
Pat O'Neill,
Yasujiro
Ozu
Graphic
art exhibitions and artists in Tokyo:
Paul Davis,
manga,
Tintin
Photography
exhibitions and photographers in Tokyo:
Nobuyoshi
Araki,
Alistair Berg, Neville Gabie, Shinichiro Kobayashi, Daido Moriyama,
Rika Noguchi, JD 'Okhai Ojeikere, Sebastiao Salgado, Malick
Sidibé, Spencer Tunick, Hideaki Uchiyama, Tsukasa Yokozawa,
Wusheng Wang
Traditional
art (Japan) exhibitions, museums and sites in Tokyo:
Edo,
Kaii Higashiyama, Hiroshige, Gallery of Horyu-ji Treasures, Jomon,
Kamakura, Kichijoten, Kannon, Muqi, national treasure, Sesshu, Sesson,
Ino Tadataka, Tokyo National Museum, ukiyo-e, Zen Buddhist
art
Traditional
art (China, Korea, India, Southeast Asia) exhibitions in
Tokyo:
celadon, Gandhara, Korea, Mathura, nuno,
textiles
Traditional
art,
Baroque art, Romanticism, Naturalism, Pre-Raphaelite art, Secession art
(Europe:
England, France, Scandinavia, Spain, Vienna) exhibitions
in Tokyo:
Blake,
Burne-Jones, Goya, Ingres, Klimt, Lorrain,
Millet, Moreau, Moser, Murillo, Prado, Redoute, Romanticism, Schiele,
Velazquez, Zurbaran
TRAVEL
IN JAPAN
General
travel and hiking:
hiking, shinkansen (bullet train), Japan Rail (JR), Japanese buses,
taxis, hotels, minshuku, ryokan, restaurants, izakaya, conbini, noodle
shops, Japanese mountains, Japan Alps, Japanese national park, onsen
(hot springs)
Tokyo (Kanto):
Akasaka, Akihabara, Aoyama, Asakusa, Daikanyama, Ebisu, Ginza, Hiroo,
Jingumae, Harajuku, Ikebukuro, Meguro, Meiji Jingu Shrine, Mt. Takao
(Takao-san), Naka-Meguro, Odaiba, Okutama, Ome, Omotesando, Roppongi,
Sendagaya, Shibuya, Shinjuku, Shinkawa, Shirogane, shitamachi, Sumida
River, Takadanobaba, Ueno, Yoyogi
Near
Tokyo (Kanto):
Chiba, Chichibu, Enoshima, Kamakura, Kanagawa,
Kawagoe, Nikko, Shonan, Yokohama
Chubu:
Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park, Mt. Fuji (Fuji-san), Lake Yamanaka
(Yamanaka-ko), Hakone, Fuji-Q Highlands; Izu Seven Islands (Shichito)
including Niijima Island; Nagano Prefecture, Matsumoto, Hakuba, Mt.
Asama (Asama-yama), Karuizawa; Chubu-Sangaku National Park (Japan
Alps), Kamikochi, Yarigatake (Mt. Yari), Hotakadake (Mt. Hotaka); Hiida
Takayama; Niigata Prefecture, Echigo Yuzawa, Fuji Rock, Tokamachi,
Echigo Tsumari Triennale; Kanazawa, Kenrokuen Garden, samurai &
geisha districts
Chugoku:
Okayama, Korakuen Garden; Kurashiki, Ohara Museum; Naoshima Island,
Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Honmura; Hiroshima: A-bomb Park, Miyajima
Island
Hokkaido:
Sapporo, Otaru; Daisetsuzan National Park, Mt. Asahi (Asahi-dake), Mt.
Kuro (Kuro-dake), Sounkyo Onsen; Lake Akan (Akan-ko) National Park,
Lake Akan (Akan-ko), Lake Mashu (Mashu-ko), Lake Kussharo
(Kussharo-ko), Kawayu Onsen; Kushiro Shitsugen National Park
Kansai:
Kyoto, Kinkakuji, Ginkakuji, Ryoanji, Gion, Higashiyama, Philosopher's
Walk, Nanzenji, Daitokuji, Daisen-in, Imperial Palace, Katsura Rikyu,
Kyoto Station; Kurama Onsen; Nara, Todaiji Temple, Nara Park, Horyuji
Temple; Ise-Shima National Park & Ise Grand Shrine (Ise Jingu);
Mt.
Koya (Koya-san); Osaka; Kobe; Himeji Castle (Himeji-jo)
Kyushu:
Fukuoka (Hakata); Nagasaki, Dejima, Glover Garden, Nagasaki Peace Park;
Mt. Aso (Aso-san) National Park, Kumamoto, Kagoshima, Kirishima
National Park
Tohoku:
Sendai & Matsushima; Bandai-Asahi National Park, Mt. Bandai
(Bandai-san), Five Color Lakes (Goshiki-numa), Dewa-Sanzan (Mt. Haguro
(Haguro-san), Mt. Gas (Gas-san), Mt. Yudono (Yudono-san); Mt. Hakkoda
(Hakkoda-san), Odake & Sukayu Onsen; Mt. Iwaki (Iwaki-san);
Lake
Tazawa (Tazawa-ko), Mt. Koma (Komagadake), Nyuto Onsen;
Towada-Hachimantai National Park, Lake Towada (Towada-ko), Oirase
Gorge, Hachimantai; Zao Onsen, Mt. Kumano (Kumano-san); Yamadera
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