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Mar 24, 2022 · The Asahi Shimbun. > Culture. > Style. > article. ‘Magic mirror’ artisan works to keep a delicate craft alive. By DAISUKE MUKAI/ Staff Writer. March 24, 2022 at 07:50 JST. list. Akihisa...
Feb 4, 2014 · When light is directed onto the face of sacred magic mirror, or makkyo, and reflected to a flat surface, an image magically appears. Kyoto Journal sits down with the man rumored to be the last remaining makkyo maker in the world — Yamamoto Akihisa.
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Tamahagane is a special form of purified steel in the traditional method by using bellows, limited to be used by swordsmiths. The moving image from the installation of the exhibition at the Himeji City Museum of Art / courtesy of the Himeji City Museum of Art A clear sound resonates when the fire chopsticks touch. It is said this enigmatic trailing...
The moving image from Sankei News When a pair of chopsticks touch each other, it creates an amazing heavenly sound as if it transported one’s mind to space or another dimension. One blacksmith Mitsuo Amitori who makes Nambu Tetsubin of iron in Iwate showed me a pair of iron chopsticks touching each other and demonstrated how it sounded. It only mad...
The three points to appreciate sword as art are sugata(shape), jigane (the steel patterns) and hamon (the temper patterns ), which is the distinctive tempered patterning along the cutting edge of the sword’s blade, central to the sword’s aesthetic beauty. Hamon include suguha, straight pattern, undulating wave-like notare and clove shaped choji. Th...
Ancient Japanese people sensed gods and spirits in nature such as rocks, waterfalls and trees and they worshipped each of them. The sun is particularly important as it is the source of light that enables all creatures to live and grow. At the archeological site in Okinoshima, fragments of mirrors were discovered on the top of the rock. It shows tha...
Some bronze mirrors are known as magic mirrors, or makyo. One side is brightly polished, while an embossed design decorates the reverse side. When light is directed onto the face of the mirror and reflected its flat surface, an image featured on its back magically appears. Yamamoto Shinji, or Oryu, the third generation, grandfather of Akihisa found...
In 2014, I, Sachiko Tamashige, asked Akihisa to make a magic mirror with a pattern of the galaxy instead of the religious motif for the exhibition at the Museum of Kyoto University. It was part of the major exhibition to introduce the history of the astronomy of Kyoto University and its observatory “Kwasan Observatory”. The former head of the obser...
Sachiko Tamashige is a Japanese freelance journalist based in Kyoto, she has been working for various media such as broadcasting companies such as BBC, NHK, as well as the newspapers such as Japan Times, Asahi Shinbun and female magazines etc. specialising in cultures such as architecture, design and art. The style of writing is to put any kind of ...
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Jan 15, 2016 · Akihisa Yamamoto is descended from four generations of kagami-shi (鏡師)—traditional mirror craftsman of Kyoto—and is rumored to be the last remaining makyo (魔鏡) “magic mirror” maker in the world. In Buddhist and Shinto traditions, mirrors are used to symbolize seeing the truth that is your self.
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Field of Research：soft matter physics, physics of life. The 2nd Cohort. Enrollment period : 2021.10 - 2024.3. Akihisa Yamamoto started working as a researcher in the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS) in Kyoto University in 2013.
