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Est. 2023 守破離
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01/08/2026

Samurai didn’t only train with the sword. From the mid-1500s, matchlock guns called teppo became a core part of Japanese warfare, brought over through trade with the Portuguese.

Ozutsu were large-caliber hand cannons, used for both battle and ceremonial firing. Training with them took discipline: measuring powder, packing the barrel, timing the fuse, all while holding a steady stance.

By the Edo period, skill with fi****ms was still respected among samurai, even as the sword remained the symbol of their status.

Guns and swords, side by side. That’s the part of samurai history most people never see.

C: .no.yama

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31/07/2026

In 1958, Sekino Jun’ichirō left Japan for the first time, invited to New York by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Japan Society.

He would go on to travel frequently across North and South America, as well as Europe, exhibiting his work in galleries and picking up awards along the way.

But it’s what he did with New York that stays with you. A master of the sōsaku-hanga movement, trained under Kōshirō Onchi, self-carving and self-printing every block, he turned the city’s chaos into something quiet.

Skyscrapers next to sunflowers. A graveyard in the middle of Manhattan. The same hands that once carved Mount Fuji now carved fire escapes and traffic.

He didn’t paint New York like a tourist. He painted it like he was translating it.

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30/07/2026

“Untitled (White Circle Collage)” (c. 1967)
by Yutaka Matsuzawa

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25/07/2026

Tucked inside several Kyoto temples, including Yōgen-in, Genkō-an, and Hōsen-in, are ceilings with a haunting history.

Look closely at the wood grain and you’ll see faint reddish-brown stains: handprints, footprints, the outline of a body.

These are the “blood ceilings,” made from the actual floorboards of Fushimi Castle, where in 1600 a small garrison of loyal samurai held out against an overwhelming siege army.

Facing defeat, the surviving defenders chose to take their own lives on the castle floor rather than be captured, leaving their blood soaked into the wood.

Rather than destroy the stained floorboards, they were later salvaged and installed as ceiling panels in several Kyoto temples.

Placing them overhead, rather than underfoot, was a way to honor the fallen, ensuring no one would ever walk on the spot where they died, while allowing their memory to be etched permanently into the temple.

Today, visitors can still see the faint outlines preserved in the grain, a quiet, sobering reminder of loyalty and sacrifice woven into the architecture of the city. 🙏

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23/07/2026

Found ceramic octopus traps in the Seto Inland Sea, Japan, from the Yayoi period, 300 BC-300 AD.

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