Goshu-in (Japanese Shrine Stamp)

Everyone who visits Japan will inevitably visit some famous temple or shrine, snap a few pictures and be done with it. But your visit can be made more memorable if you collect Goshu-in, unique stamps that each shrine or temple makes for visitors. You’ll need a special book which opens accordion style, which you will…

書道 Japanese Calligraphy

The written form of many scripts can be elevated to art, but the Japanese, and the Chinese long before them, have been creating writing as art for a very long time. Shodou, the Japanese version of calligraphy as an art has been done since at least the 7th century, though the Chinese had been writing…