
Japanese Cultural Spotlight
- Doyo no Ushi no Hi
- Gift Giving Etiquette in Japan
- Ikigai (生き甲斐)
- Kanbina 甘美な (かんび な)
- Mono-No-Aware (物の哀れ)
- Shōkadō bentō (松花堂弁当)
- Tobi-ishi (飛石)
- 72 Micro-Seasons of Japan
Japanese Tea Ceremony
Japanese Holidays
Japanese Homes & Gardens
Japanese Language
- Hiragana: An Introduction
- Hiragana: Voiced Consonants and Other Sounds
- Katakana: An Introduction
- Katakana: Voiced Consonants and Other Sounds
- Kanji: An Introduction
- “School” Vocabulary
Japanese Death Poems
- What Are Japanese Death Poems?
- Dokyo Etan (道鏡慧端) – Japanese Death Poem
- Doyu (道祐) – Japanese Death Poem
- Gizan Zenrai (儀山善来) – Japanese Death Poem
Japanese Arts & Crafts
- Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons: Autumn and Winter
- Chigusa and the Art of Tea
- Japanese Manhole Covers (マンホールの蓋): Art Beneath Your Feet
- Origami: A Primer
- What constitutes a traditional Japanese craft?
Samurai
Travel Prefecture Guide
Fukuoka Prefecture
Gifu Prefecture
- Gifu Castle (岐阜城)
- Hida Kokubunji Temple (飛騨国分寺)
- Takayama Jinya (岐阜県 Gifu-ken)
- UNESCO World Heritage Site: The Gassho-Style Houses of Shirakawa-go
- The Rakan statues (Kyoto, Japan)
Hyōgo Prefecture
Nara Prefecture
Culinary Travel – Japan
- Chadō (茶道): The Way Of Tea
- Japanese Table Manners 101
- Kaiseki-Ryori (会席料理)
- Japanese Teas After Matcha
- Nodaiwa: Unagi Restaurant
- Shōkadō bentō (松花堂弁当)
- Soba Master: An Art Form
- Sushi Definitions for Foreigners
- What is the Japanese tea ceremony?
Buddhism, Shinto and Japanese Folklore

Buddhism
Fundamentals
- Four Noble Truths
- Shunryu Suzuki On Bowing in Zen
- The Noble Eightfold Path: In Bullet Points
- The 10 Zen Oxherding Pictures
- The Sixteen Bodhisattva Precepts
- What is Meditation?
- Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
Mindfulness
Memorials, Monasteries, etc.
- Buddha Park of Ravangla
- The Five Giant Buddha’s of Asia
- Dambulla Cave Temple
- Longmen Caves – (龍門 石窟) Henan, China
Thích Nhất Hạnh
- 40 Years of Plum Village
- A Cloud Never Dies: A Thich Nhat Hanh Biographical Documentary
- Please do not build a stupa by Thích Nhất Hạnh
- Thich Nhất Hạnh Faces Death With Dignity and A Lesson in Mindfulness
- Thich Nhat Hanh on “Right Speech”
- Tributes to Thich Nhat Hanh
- Zen Compassion
Thích Nhất Hạnh Answers
Zen Humor
Zen Buddhism Resources
Tibetan Buddhism
Shinto
Japanese Folklore
Yōkai
- Yōkai: An Introduction
- Baku (獏 / ばく)
- Haishaku (肺積 / はいしゃく)
- Haka No Hi (墓の火 / はかのき)
- Hannya (般若 / はんにゃ)
- Hashihime (橋姫 / はしひめ)
- Hiderigami (魃 or ひでりがみ)
- Hone Onna (骨女 or ほねおんな)
- Itsumade (以津真 / 天いつまで)
- Kappa (河童 / かっぱ)
- Koto Furunushi (琴古主 or ことふるぬし)
- Makuwauri No Bakemono (真桑瓜の化物 or まくわうりのばけもの)
- Myōbu (命婦 / みょうぶ)
- Shoki (鍾馗 or しょうき)
- Tōfu kozō (豆腐小僧 / とうふこぞう)
- Yama Oroshi (山颪 or やまおろし)
- Yamajijii (山爺 or やまじじい)
- Yuki-Onna (雪女, “snow woman”)
Animals