10 September 2015
Architecture students from Kingston University have designed and built a temporary five metre tall wooden structure, which is a 1:5 scale interpretation of the Temple Gate from Todaiji Nandaimon, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Nara. The students were led by tutors Takeshi Hayatsu and Simon Jones as part of a year-long live project, in
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Daiwa Scholarship alumnus, Carl Randall’s ‘Hibakusha Triptych’ (a series of a three paintings of survivors of the Atomic Bomb Hiroshima) and a series of his Japanese ink drawings, are being exhibited at ARTINTERNATIONAL Istanbul 2015, September 4th – 7th. The works are being shown through his gallery Berloni London, which hosted his solo exhibition ‘Shōzō’ in 2014. Drawing on its
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Lafcadio Hearn: Exhibition and Symposium – at Teikyo University of Japan in Durham / Ushaw College in September 2015.
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This London exhibition is Ichijoh Shimotani’s first ever show outside of Japan.
Ichijoh Shimotani is a Japanese Bokusai painter based in Osaka, Japan. Born in Tokushima, Japan, Ichijoh graduated from the The Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1965 and soon discovered her love for painting. In 1974, she ventured into the world of oil painting and has had a presence in the Japanese traditional and modern art scene ever since.
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Create a short story with the theme of ‘bright young things’ to win fantastic prizes such as
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Following the huge success of their concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London in March 2014, the Fukushima Youth Sinfonietta is performing at Opera City in Tokyo on August 20th 2015 at 7pm. The concert is the culmination of this year’s project, organised by the UK-based charity Keys of Change. Internationally acclaimed concert pianist Panos Karan, the founder of Keys of Change, has been working with young musicians from middle schools in Fukushima for the past four years.
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Izumi Thomas is the chair of Satsuma 150 which is being celebrated in the UK this year. Satsuma 150 aims to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Satsuma students in the UK in 1865. Izumi is from Fukiage in Kagoshima and now lives in London where she is a freelance translator and a visiting researcher at the British Museum. Below is an interview with her about this year’s commemoration.
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Satsuma Biwa (Japanese narrative lute tradition) with Junko Ueda: Concert & lecture/demonstration on 10 July 2015 at SOAS, University of London – Admission free!
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You can listen to 2013 Daiwa Scholar Natasha Pulley talking with Jeremy Sallis on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire about her debut novel, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street.
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Natasha Pulley is one of the six 2013 Daiwa Scholars. She finished the Scholarship at the end of March 2015. Natasha read English at the University of Oxford and in 2012 she completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She has a long-standing interest in Japan and in Japanese literature, and has recently completed her first novel, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. It will be published on 2 July 2015.
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