# Japan

> A chronological documentary of 990 moments spanning 1100–2026.
> Source: https://loreline.live/loreline/japan · Loreline (loreline.live)

Japan spent two and a half centuries mostly closed, then opened at gunpoint in 1853 and rebuilt itself twice in a hundred years, once into an empire, and once, after that empire ended in firebombing and two atomic weapons, into the second-largest economy on earth. What survived all of it, and what the country is now best known for, is a culture of extraordinary specificity: a print of a wave that changed European painting, a shrine torn down and rebuilt every twenty years, a knife folded from smelted sand, a fish sliced by a man who has done nothing else for sixty years. And then the modern export, Godzilla and Kurosawa, Mario and Pokémon, Totoro and Akira, ramen and city pop and Comme des Garçons, which reached further than anything the empire ever took. This archive follows the culture first: the animation, the food, the crafts, the films, the music, the clothes, the games and the rituals. It also tells the twentieth century straight, including the parts still argued over, because an archive that leaves those out is not an archive of Japan.

_Curated by Olivier · last updated 2026-08-22._

## Eras

- **Samurai**, The warrior class and the centuries it ruled: armour and castles, the Sengoku wars and the unification, the shogunates, sumo and the martial arts, and the long afterlife of bushido, much of which was written down in 1900, well after the last samurai.
- **Swords**, The blade itself. Steel smelted from iron sand, folded and differentially hardened, and the smiths still doing it by hand, plus the tsuba, the mountings and the collectors.
- **Ukiyo-e**, Pictures of the floating world. Hokusai, Hiroshige, Utamaro, Sharaku and Kunisada; actors, courtesans, ghosts, waves and the road to Edo, and the block-cutting and printing that made them cheap enough for anyone to own.
- **Painting**, Screens, scrolls and hanging works rather than prints: ink painting, the Kano school, Rinpa, nihonga, and the Buddhist and narrative traditions behind them.
- **Ceramics**, Clay and fire. Arita porcelain and Bizen stoneware, Raku bowls made by hand for the tea room, Mino and Seto, the climbing kilns, and the gold seams of kintsugi.
- **Crafts**, Everything else made by hand and made to last: lacquer, washi paper, textiles and indigo, metalwork, joinery, calligraphy, dolls and basketry, and the Living National Treasures system, which exists because these skills die with their holders.
- **Architecture**, Buildings and the thinking behind them. Katsura and the tea house, castles, the shrine at Ise rebuilt every twenty years so the carpentry survives, and the modern run from Tange to Ando to SANAA.
- **Shinto**, Kami, shrines and torii; purification, priests, and the calendar of matsuri, the festivals that still shut whole cities for a week, from Gion to Nebuta to Awa Odori.
- **Buddhism**, Arriving in the sixth century and never leaving. Zen and zazen, the raked garden, temple life, sutras and statuary, and the schools that shaped how the country thinks about death.
- **Theatre**, Kabuki, noh and bunraku, all three still performed, all three on the UNESCO list, plus the geisha districts of Kyoto and the training behind an art that takes decades.
- **Food**, Sushi from preserved fish to Edo street food; ramen, which is Chinese and became the national dish anyway; dashi and the discovery of umami in 1908; the market at four in the morning and the convenience store at midnight.
- **Sake & Tea**, Two drinks with their own disciplines. Rice, water, koji and the brewing craft UNESCO listed in 2024; and the tea ceremony, which Sen no Rikyū turned into a philosophy with rules.
- **Anime**, From Tezuka drawing a robot boy in 1963 to an industry that supplies the world and struggles to pay its own animators. Ghibli, Akira, Evangelion, the Jump titles that ran for a generation, and the desks and schedules behind them.
- **Film**, Kurosawa taking the Golden Lion in 1951 and being remade as westerns ever since; Ozu three feet off the tatami; a man in a rubber suit released nine years after Hiroshima and understood immediately. Then the New Wave, the horror, and Koreeda at Cannes.
- **Video Games**, A playing-card company founded in 1889 that ended up defining the medium. Mario and Zelda, the arcade, Street Fighter, Final Fantasy, Pokémon, Kojima, and the hardware, designed with the same care as anything else here.
- **Music**, Gagaku played more or less continuously for twelve centuries, and city pop rediscovered by an algorithm forty years late. Enka, Yellow Magic Orchestra, the idol machine and its economics, and the jazz bars where nobody talks.
- **Fashion**, What people actually wear. The kimono and the people still making one by hand; the 1981 Paris collections that arrived in black; Harajuku photographed weekly for twenty years; and the small Okayama mills that make the best denim in the world.
- **Empire**, The forced opening in 1853 and the speed of what followed: Meiji industrialisation, the colonies in Taiwan and Korea, Manchuria and the war in China, the Pacific War, and then the occupation, Article 9, the miracle and the bubble.
- **Hiroshima**, 6 and 9 August 1945 and everything after. The two cities, the casualty estimates and their ranges, the hibakusha who spent their lives testifying, and the memorials built where the buildings were.
- **Disasters**, A country built on four plates. Kobe in 1995, the sarin attack that same year, and 11 March 2011, the earthquake, the wave and Fukushima.
- **Robots**, A country that has been building automata since the Edo period and now builds them because there are not enough people. The karakuri tea-serving doll, Honda's walking prototypes, nursing and care robots pitched at a shortage of carers, humanoids for the warehouse floor, and Rapidus betting the industrial base on a 2nm chip.
- **Tourism**, Forty-two million visitors a year arriving in a country that spent decades asking for them. Kyoto's buses and its two-tier fares, the crossing at Shibuya, Fushimi Inari blocked to ambulances, a climbing fee and a daily cap on Fuji, the Osaka Expo, and the towns working out what the crowds are actually worth.
- **Ageing Japan**, More deaths than births, eight million empty houses and a workforce running short. The care worker and the eighty-five-year-old, lonely deaths and the crematorium queue, the akiya tax, companies abolishing the retirement age, 2.3 million foreign workers, and the politics and economics of a country getting older faster than any other.

## Timeline

### 1100
- **1100**, Seated Buddha (lotus pedestal). Sculpture, 1100s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5a04e260-f61d-4401-b017-a8cccb3f14ba) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.85.c
### 1291
- **1291**, The Bodhisattva Jizō. Statue, 1291, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e6cde5d2-bbd1-4153-9b44-5cdd043f8a2b) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/76084
### 1300
- **1300**, Cosmetics Box with Chrysanthemums. Lacquer, early 1300s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1ab819c0-3433-4067-80fc-5ff5435429db) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.513
- **1300**, Armor (Yoroi) of Ashikaga Takauji (1305–1358), a second example by Unknown. Armor (\<i\>Yoroi\</i\>), early 14th century, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/eea1acab-eb9d-4424-b872-68c5857343b1) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/22506
- **1300**, Cosmetics Box with Chrysanthemums (base), a second example by Unknown. Lacquer, early 1300s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a5eb12c9-842d-4869-b98f-7badc63f16db) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.513.a
- **1300**, Armor (Yoroi) of Ashikaga Takauji (1305–1358). Armor (\<i\>Yoroi\</i\>), early, mid-14th century, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c01f33d7-8681-4645-b966-7329a1ebc241) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/35694
- **1300**, Cosmetics Box with Chrysanthemums (lid), a third example by Unknown. Lacquer, early 1300s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/cf8afc12-d24b-4117-847d-6cea902f6352) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.513.b
### 1325
- **1325**, Helmet of Ashikaga Takauji (1305–1358). Helmet, mid-14th century, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/70bd37a8-d945-4773-840c-cf3887daaf7f) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/27272
### 1336
- **1336**, Votive Hanging with Image of Kannon (Kannon Kakebotoke). Sculpture, mid- to late 1300s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d78f69bb-e48b-4131-8cd2-e3884100322b) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.16
### 1350
- **1350**, Sword Guard (Tsuba), a second example by Unknown. Sword guard (Tsuba), late 14th century, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/33162901-e52a-4fa6-ab4e-951ce27d5e39) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/31704
### 1400
- **1400**, Sake Vessel (Heishi) with Butterflies. Sake vessel, 15th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/da2e2533-9c60-472e-b3d8-6c24459d5fe3) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/53234
### 1401
- **1401**, Blades and Mountings for a Pair of Swords (Daishō). ), sword (katana) blade, dated 1440; short sword (wakizashi) blade, 15th century; mountings, late 18th century, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/21d2dc91-17db-4ae1-8630-6becba89ac20) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/27789
### 1501
- **1501**, Armor (Gusoku), a third example by Saotome Ietada. Armor (\<i\>Gusoku\</i\>), 16th and 18th centuries, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/be659308-e41d-49a1-b636-5ef9092e1c54) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/22521
- **1501**, Arrowhead (Yanone). Arrowhead (\<i\>Yanone\</i\>), 16th, 19th century, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/47a2c4b8-7202-4258-93bc-967bdaa2055f) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/23655
- **1501**, Helmet (Zukinnari Kabuto). Helmet (\<i\>Zukinnari kabuto\</i\>), 16th century, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/dbca6962-6bcd-477d-ad44-ccf2103a2dbc) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/24014
- **1501**, Armor (Gusoku). Armor (\<i\>Gusoku\</i\>), 16th and 18th centuries, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/06cda994-ec19-490a-a771-7e0a2d62e6f1) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/35721
### 1520
- **1520**, Women on a Bridge Tossing Fans into a River. Screen, early 17th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/744f26a8-6a17-44bc-8edf-11980850153a) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/53439
### 1525
- **1525**, Water Container (Mizusashi) with Riverscape. Ceramic, late 1500s, early 1600s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6ca939d6-0ebd-48d5-8496-87fde81823b9) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.9.a
### 1550
- **1550**, Sword Guard (Tsuba), example 5 by Kyōsukashi School. Sword guard (Tsuba), late 16th century, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/fa94f7c5-7f57-49f5-ae18-2ab6f10aa952) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/26589
- **1550**, “An Imperial Excursion” (Miyuki), “A Boat Cast Adrift” (Ukifune), and “The Barrier Gate” (. Screens, mid-16th, early 17th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/55406b81-44ab-48ce-aabf-08b2d6d40ae7) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/39665
- **1550**, Armor (Nimai-Dō Gusoku) with Box. Armor (\<i\>Nimai-Dō Gusoku\</i\>) with box, late 16th, early 17th century, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5751a215-1c8a-4737-a882-de6cca2508b6) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/894750
### 1573
- **1573**, Selections from the Collection of Japanese Poems from Ancient and Modern Times (Kokin waka. Calligraphy, 1600s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b4199c7d-d3f0-4840-a61e-6a178a21a6fc) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.67
- **1573**, Portrait of a Warrior. Hanging scroll, late 16th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/7b0d0d0c-f97a-4044-b8b1-589b78ce9b82) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/72570
### 1580
- **1580**, Peafowl and Phoenixes. Painting, late 1500s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/2c1cf3b5-2ccf-4f52-b0f7-d0d4cac5a219) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1986.2
### 1590
- **1590**, Mask (Ho-ate) with Gorget. 1615–1868, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f1e1251a-7dba-4813-ae21-e33e004d4da6) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/24149
- **1590**, Sword Guard (Tsuba), a third example by Hirata School. Sword guard (Tsuba), ca. 1615–1868, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/dbaff2f3-2a91-4edb-8a7e-ff9a5becfa07) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/24711
### 1595
- **1595**, Tea Bowl. Ceramic, c. 1600, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/7fbf235a-f2ef-4946-84a8-bece39dc1bd7) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.158
### 1600
- **1600**, Robe (Kosode) with Shells and Sea Grasses. Kosode, early 17th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/cc824e00-4cba-48ef-915e-3aff7a587a7d) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/50688
- **1600**, Selections from the New Collection of Japanese Poems from Ancient and Modern Times (Shinko. Calligraphy, early 1600s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/980ecddd-1af6-4ca2-a612-bc3cac8c5639) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.118
- **1600**, Batō (Horse-Headed) Kannon (base). Sculpture, 1600s, 1700s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8e0e273c-a23d-4cc3-ae04-258ba2c5bc50) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1981.1.b
- **1600**, Tea Bowl, a second example by Unknown. Ceramic, 1600s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c4a7fba2-bd91-403c-afa6-76c612d6f857) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1996.4
- **1600**, Bol à thé de type tenmoku (tenmoku chawan), M.C. 3158. Mino ware. Auteur(s): Seto-Mino (région de production céramique) Date de production: Entre 1600 et 1700 Datation en siècle: 17e siècle Type(s) d'objet(s): Céramique, Japon Dénomination(s): Bol à thé Matériaux et techniques: Grès, Glaçure = Couverte Lieu(x) d'exécution / réalisation: Mino (région his [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9a0f0a57-1f23-45e6-bd42-0d273ef5eb03) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bol_%C3%A0_th%C3%A9_de_type_tenmoku_(tenmoku_chawan),_M.C._3158.jpg
- **1600**, Royal Visit to Ōhara, from The Tale of the Heike. Screens, first half of the 17th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5ede7939-4563-4f95-ad09-eabd80bf592d) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/45388
- **1600**, Willows and Bridge. Screens, early 17th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f5e26be3-88a4-4e9e-9185-e8cb2c1a7f2a) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/53241
- **1600**, Mounting for a Slung Sword (Itomaki-tachi Koshirae) with Storage Box. Mounting for a slung sword (\<i\>Itomaki-tachi Koshirae\</i\>) with storage box, ca. 1615–1868; storage box, ca. 1932, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8b4e6baf-b804-4cf9-bb66-649e05bf97d6) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/894754
### 1601
- **1601**, Helmet in the Shape of a Crouching Rabbit. 17th century, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1b05f420-55aa-4d59-8f16-f1a736235059) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/22098
- **1601**, Armor (Gusoku), example 4 by Yukinoshita Sadaiyé. Armor (\<i\>Gusoku\</i\>), 17th century, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f937a645-c507-49d3-9ef7-ba6734ef92d2) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/22022
- **1601**, Suzu. 17th century, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/fd9afca8-3249-446d-8115-a1a920ff5747) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/500655
- **1601**, 虫尽金具大小拵 Blade and Mounting for a Sword (Katana). Blade and mounting for a sword (\<i\>Katana\</i\>), blade, 17th century; mounting, early 19th century, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/33838b26-b7f9-466a-8806-06b1a6c0037f) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/24617
### 1620
- **1620**, Amusements at Higashiyama in Kyoto. Screens, early 1620s, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e225798f-27e6-4437-b7a4-32e39d6f9b97) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/653246
### 1634
- **1634**, Dish with Buddhist Monk-Poet Hanshan. Dish, mid-17th century, China (for Japanese market), Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/dc278716-e729-4162-b58b-4bdf721d720d) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/76734
### 1645
- **1645**, Ceremonial Arrowhead (Yanone). Ceremonial arrowhead (\<i\>Yanone\</i\>), dated 1645, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/0dcb8909-2c5a-4b0c-8ed2-bd5727c1d92c) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/23411
- **1645**, Ceremonial Arrowhead (Yanone), a third example by Umetada Motoshige. Ceremonial arrowhead (\<i\>Yanone\</i\>), dated 1645, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e08fdab0-d64e-4a7a-82cd-e40a74a2ec93) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/23470
- **1645**, Ceremonial Arrowhead (Yanone), a second example by Umetada Motoshige. Ceremonial arrowhead (\<i\>Yanone\</i\>), dated 1645, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/2fe4bfef-5b90-4bba-9382-1191d385aab5) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/23474
### 1650
- **1650**, Book of Painted Kosode Patterns. Kosode design book, second half 17th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3068682f-30cf-4984-a193-bbe82ba18a50) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/65592
- **1650**, Helmet (Hoshi Kabuto) and Mask with Gorget. Helmet (\<i\>Hoshi Kabuto\</i\>) and mask with gorget, late 17th or early 18th century, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e6592e8f-83d4-45c3-8d97-f5946116ea8b) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/22674
- **1650**, Chrysanthemum crane Tsuba, 17th century (CH 18341891). Tsuba. This Kyo-sukashi (Kyoto openwork) style tsuba takes the form of a tsuru maru (crane circle). At the center is the nakago-ana, an opening through which the sword passes, with traces of sekigane (plugs added to fit the tsuba to a sword) made of shakudo (a soft copper and gold alloy). The surrou [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5a4174b7-ca13-4629-942f-c00ff5e933c5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chrysanthemum_crane_Tsuba,_17th_century_(CH_18341891).jpg
- **1650**, Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Colophon. Painting, early 1650s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/faf63ae8-0e1f-4e8f-8012-725ced1aa2fd) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.22.11
- **1650**, Blade and Mounting for a Short Sword (Wakizashi). ), blade, late 17th century; mounting, 19th century, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/61530751-94e7-4516-9a3d-106a19e6b657) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/24616
### 1655
- **1655**, Calligraphy in Semi-Cursive Style (xing-caoshu). Calligraphy, c. 1660–1709, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/aaabf9a2-f1a5-4647-9ca5-a0b2302217c7) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.353
### 1667
- **1667**, Sake Bottle (Tokkuri) with Chinese Character Meaning “Treasure”. Wine bottle, late 17th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9d2da697-1289-4b25-9c91-6980932a9a5a) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/50329
- **1667**, Teapot in Melon Shape. Teapot, late 17th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/cde99322-fc3a-4443-a1dd-f6a4e6f4f8bd) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/54235
### 1670
- **1670**, Figure of a Standing Beauty. Figure, ca. 1670–90, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/be766319-e6fb-4a1b-8c9c-b6af9a0e263c) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/50339
- **1670**, Dish with Cherry Blossoms and Textile Curtains. Dish, ca. 1670–90, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/7ceb1ed0-016f-44df-afa8-0107bcefd58d) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/50197
### 1675
- **1675**, Dish with Brocade. Ceramic, late 1600s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ab149ccb-ac04-43fc-b96c-39cedd39d002) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.252
- **1675**, Nō Costume (Nuihaku) with Blossoming Trees and Flowers. Garment, 1675–99, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/0bb870b6-4ba3-41bd-8b88-c962db4b1674) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.36
### 1680
- **1680**, Small Dish (Kozara) with Three Jars. Dish, 1680–90s, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/47b5eb56-9a79-4cdc-be12-8792ce00db0c) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/50342
### 1688
- **1688**, Dish with Ginkgo Leaves. Ceramic, late 1600s, early 1700s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ff3f76a4-86bc-4921-911b-9d90ee28c5f1) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.61
### 1695
- **1695**, Square Dish with Design of Plovers over Waves. Ceramic, c. 1700, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/563d5c52-a6f7-46ea-b8c8-5222c879c094) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.365
### 1700
- **1700**, Sake Bottle (Tokkuri) with Flowers and Grasses. Sake bottle, early 18th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/671c32c2-c7cc-416b-92f2-28c85ba9d163) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/50328
- **1700**, Fragment. 18th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6e67f9af-73cd-4564-a377-16bea8dae081) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/65762
- **1700**, Handscroll of Ten Homoerotic (Nanshoku) Scenes. Handscroll, early 18th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8f22846e-82ca-4894-ae90-4ff5cc1622c1) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/888663
- **1700**, Samurai and Wakashu (Male Youth). Hanging scroll, early 18th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/7a525f3c-b2a0-4a64-8f62-f81bc5255092) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/816213
- **1700**, Case (Inrō ) with Design of a Gourd Vine. Inrō, 18th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5afe9961-f6cb-40cb-8c39-0998ebc7517c) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/45472
- **1700**, Three Courtesans with a Client. Print, 1700, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/81db9ad8-deb1-469e-aaab-9875df090162) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.337
- **1700**, Flowers and Trees of the Four Seasons (right screen), a second example by Watanabe Shikō. Painting, early to mid-1700s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ee65a40e-8990-4448-b0bf-1b01acd9643d) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.132.1
- **1700**, Flowers and Trees of the Four Seasons (left screen). Painting, early to mid-1700s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5b4ec2b4-1143-4e85-ab5b-8f0dbb001382) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.132.2
- **1700**, Case (Inrō) with Design of Bean Vine. Inrō, 18th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f2b6f93c-03e5-49de-a484-3b92d0e1196f) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/44866
- **1700**, Case (Inrō) with Design of Grasshopper on Stalk of Flowering Lily. Inrō, 18th, 19th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c79eb7a0-5923-47af-838b-abf0a1ede905) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/58697
### 1701
- **1701**, Arrowhead (Yanone), a second example by Kanabo Masatsugu. Arrowhead (\<i\>Yanone\</i\>), 18th century, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9951ecce-8b64-4890-9110-7066c3ed33cf) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/23392
- **1701**, Armor (Gusoku), a second example by Bamen Tomotsugu. Armor (\<i\>Gusoku\</i\>), 18th century, Japanese, Toyohara, Echizen province, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/38f49e06-724e-4437-aab0-68c439164914) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/24975
- **1701**, Armor (Gusoku) with Box, a second example by Neo Masanobu 根尾正信. Armor (\<i\>Gusoku\</i\>) with box, 19th century; helmet bowl, early 18th century, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9bc18398-ac1f-41ef-8649-eb8cc488354c) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/894753
- **1701**, Sword Guard (Tsuba), example 4 by Omori Hidenaga. Sword guard (Tsuba), 18th century, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e03977ce-4284-414a-93a8-3d79a00a3a7d) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/27693
### 1710
- **1710**, Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers. Painting, 1700s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ea15d2b0-5b88-460b-b472-be4ab125640e) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.267
- **1710**, Entertainment Scene. Painting, c. 1710–53, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6d09f1b0-083f-469e-a6ef-c4c8ba3e9dc4) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.17
- **1710**, Plate with Japanese court woman and birds. Plate, 1710–30, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d3ae8352-24f1-4aca-a473-c3a2cf5720ec) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/208343
### 1715
- **1715**, Chrysanthemums by a Stream. Painting, c. 1715–30 or later, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/0af8acee-e6b7-4d40-aede-f1dae81321d9) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.206
- **1715**, Chrysanthemums by a Stream, a second example by Ogata Kōrin. Painting, c. 1715–30 or later, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/50064263-1393-4a02-808e-0f4043c61239) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.206.1
- **1715**, Chrysanthemums by a Stream, a third example by Ogata Kōrin. Painting, c. 1715–30 or after, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f0d3e563-1182-4b28-8e33-6f73e3e1c8ed) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.206.2
### 1716
- **1716**, Order Book of Kosode Patterns (Chūmon no hiinagata/Hiinagata chūmon chō). Illustrated book, 1716, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a6a3ba54-8486-4af8-b3ba-3114145f6fba) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/74149
### 1725
- **1725**, Sword (Peidao) with Scabbard. 1750–1800, blade, Japanese; mounting, Chinese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/bd7fbdf6-848f-4e73-a3ab-659dee2c3c99) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/23387
### 1734
- **1734**, Plate Depicting Lady with a Parasol. Plate, ca. 1734–37, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8851e647-86fe-4037-bcb5-8e2fcf23b785) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/49421
- **1734**, Dish Depicting Lady with a Parasol. Dish, ca. 1734–37, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/63f06962-6056-47d6-b1c3-9e09ed3bfe45) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/49422
### 1735
- **1735**, Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals. Painting, mid 1700s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5b33e0a5-f286-42da-bde5-4c47ab92a08b) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.183
### 1736
- **1736**, Courtesan on Parade. Hanging scroll, late 1730s, early 1740s, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/2d8cba0a-ecb5-450c-ba45-237f062e9b17) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/78060
### 1740
- **1740**, Perspective View of the Interior of the Nakamura Theater with Ichikawa Ebizo II as Yanone. Print, 1740, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/cb15ca24-b08d-4466-bfd1-ea31f6cb14df) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1154
- **1740**, Bamboo and Rocks in Clearing Skies. Painting, mid-1700s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/790b0863-ef42-4d48-9369-c37b1df633e1) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.337
### 1750
- **1750**, Spring and Autumn Farming, a third example by Kō Sūkoku. Painting, 1700s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/39efb8ab-635f-4985-990b-4e9a99b19776) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2012.72
- **1750**, Spring and Autumn Farming (Spring). Painting, 1700s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/0c826d5c-16b0-445f-a6dd-a5f56aed74d3) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2012.72.1
- **1750**, Spring and Autumn Farming (Autumn), a second example by Kō Sūkoku. Painting, 1700s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/369bb31c-c400-4b16-bb38-d28613acf739) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2012.72.2
- **1750**, Ryūryūkyo Shinsai: a woodblock print, about 1750. Print, 1750–1835, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9ea3e212-7ca7-40ad-9d67-ef1a8b233291) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/54216
- **1750**, Saya Inrō with Bamboo Grove (exterior) and Rooster with Hen (interior). Inrō, second half of the 18th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/42969d1c-e260-4dab-a9aa-da11271b8b93) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/58640
- **1750**, Inrō with Grapevine. Inrō, second half of the 18th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/52fe30f1-b5ea-4e3a-9d14-28b582c5af20) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/58803
### 1751
- **1751**, Book of Kosode Patterns (Hiinagata Ise no umi) 雛形伊勢乃海. Illustrated book, 1751, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ffa2703c-0e82-43ce-8649-ce3ceee5a624) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/78758
### 1756
- **1756**, Chōbunsai Eishi: a woodblock print, about 1756, a second example. Print, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d4dcc938-ebbe-4954-a2ab-df5a83ece6c7) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/55031
- **1756**, Chōbunsai Eishi: a woodblock print, about 1756. Print, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a7558ea1-6ad4-4eed-8c91-d88fbbb9407c) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/639380
### 1760
- **1760**, Kosode Patterns, Fuji of the Capital (Hiinagata Miyako no Fuji). Illustrated book, 1760, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/4d6f6cd4-9f68-4557-a4d3-7c8a5dd7d901) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/74261
### 1763
- **1763**, The Ninth Ichimura Uzaemon as a Samurai Warrior. Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ca. 1773, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/bb06917a-95a9-45f7-83be-2aca688696d8) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/36595
### 1771
- **1771**, Case (Inrō) with Design of Clamshells and Fireflies. Inrō, late 18th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/0f3a92fa-7087-4ac9-ae70-d4e8a735e054) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/54242
### 1775
- **1775**, Basket Dish. Ceramic, late 1700s, early 1800s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ffa0ed36-90a8-4f9d-87f1-90bb7738302b) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.258
- **1775**, Waves. Painting, late 1700s-early 1800s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d240d6c5-2e39-4229-b7a5-ee7f00bb75ee) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.90
### 1780
- **1780**, Scenes from Essays in Idleness. Painting, late 1700s, early 1800s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c131e708-4689-43b6-b559-2cdb03db79d2) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.43
### 1785
- **1785**, Seventy-Two Peaks Under the Blue Sky with Mount Furong. Painting, 1785, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5556f144-2479-4f2f-85e0-a93341882b6f) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.28
### 1786
- **1786**, Utagawa Kunisada: a woodblock print, about 1786, example 6. Print, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/abd84e4a-2823-4ccc-a96b-4bb705ed090a) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/58204
- **1786**, Utagawa Kunisada: a woodblock print, about 1786, a third example. Print, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5bacdc9d-1475-4e82-aa2b-0baa46422182) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/58210
- **1786**, Utagawa Kunisada: a woodblock print, about 1786, example 9. Print, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f04ab024-e80f-4ee1-9ae9-8d2fcb9e5e31) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/58221
- **1786**, Utagawa Kunisada: a woodblock print, about 1786, example 7. Print, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/db621812-aed0-4b71-be86-c1a7bb5a2f39) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/57018
- **1786**, Utagawa Kunisada: a woodblock print, about 1786, example 5. Print, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8b3f4ea0-9e23-47a5-b108-0b4613461234) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/58200
- **1786**, Utagawa Kunisada: a woodblock print, about 1786, a second example. Print, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5236c3e8-1f7b-4006-8468-8d6ee6238401) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/58212
- **1786**, Utagawa Kunisada: a woodblock print, about 1786, example 4. Print, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6b34502a-7a55-4e42-a451-9a5e4586879e) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/58213
- **1786**, Utagawa Kunisada: a woodblock print, about 1786. Print, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/39c0c00c-a3be-486a-b092-f77caded2b24) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/58230
- **1786**, Utagawa Kunisada: a woodblock print, about 1786, example 8. Print, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/eaf3cd0b-b7cb-4f44-ac2a-5823b5b425e4) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/58233
### 1790
- **1790**, Court Ladies Making Dolls. Print, 1790s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/2124912a-d727-436b-b6b3-39d9d27403fd) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1922.175
### 1791
- **1791**, Katsushika Hokusai: a woodblock print, about 1791. Print, ca. 1801, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/639eb759-cc7c-4066-89b1-bbfbe11f972e) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/54302
### 1792
- **1792**, Utamaro-Bijin-e-1792. Utamaro woodblock print bijin. Kitagawa Utamaro: Three bijin, 1792. Print, 39x26 cm. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/33c50988-b4ed-4cea-b8b0-83e9df0466df) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Utamaro-Bijin-e-1792.jpg
### 1793
- **1793**, Kitagawa Utamaro - Toji san bijin (Three Beauties of the Present Day)From Bijin-ga (Pictur. Utamaro woodblock print bijin. ​寛政三美人：富本豊ひな（上）、難波屋おきた（右）、高島屋おひさ（左） [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8ed409ea-9d8f-4f4c-9286-fd4d135f7711) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kitagawa_Utamaro_-_Toji_san_bijin_(Three_Beauties_of_the_Present_Day)From_Bijin-ga_(Pictures_of_Beautiful_Women),_published_by_Tsutaya_Juzaburo_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
- **1793**, Utamaro1. Utamaro woodblock print bijin. "Three known beauties (寛政三美人)" ( Tôji san bijin ), ukiyo-e by Utamaro [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9cb61c53-148a-4e72-a472-57273e62a139) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Utamaro1.jpg
### 1794
- **1794**, Sharaku (1794) Sanogawa Ichimatsu III as Onnayo of Gion and Ichikawa Tomieimon as Kanisaka. Sharaku actor print kabuki. Ukiyo-e print by Tōshūsai Sharaku of kabuki actors Sanogawa Ichimatsu III in the role of the courtesan Onnayo of Gion and Ichikawa Tomieimon in the role of Kanisaka Tōma, 1794 (20th-century Adachi reprint) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8de5c00d-0910-40bc-add0-45144c86b8bf) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sharaku_(1794)_Sanogawa_Ichimatsu_III_as_Onnayo_of_Gion_and_Ichikawa_Tomieimon_as_Kanisaka_T%C5%8Dma_01.jpg
- **1794**, Sharaku - Sawamura Sojurō III. Sharaku actor print kabuki. Ukiyo-e portrait of the kabuki actor Sawamura Sojurō III by Tōshūsai Sharaku, 1794 (20th-century Adachi reprint) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/cc03ddea-4d1c-4f74-96e6-1cd26aed3dae) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sharaku_-_Sawamura_Sojur%C5%8D_III.png
- **1794**, The actor Otani Oniji II as Yakko Edobei - Sharaku - TNM. Sharaku actor print kabuki. Part of the series "Portraits of actors at three theaters in Edo". This print depicts the actor Otani Oniji II as Yakko Edobei. This is a first period print and designated collectively together with 26 other prints from the series as Important Cultural Property of Japan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1326fade-6014-4644-935d-54c07afc1bf7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_actor_Otani_Oniji_II_as_Yakko_Edobei_-_Sharaku_-_TNM.jpg
### 1796
- **1796**, Party on the Pleasure Boat Kawaichimaru. Print, c. 1796–97, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a61d1512-673e-4bf6-9fb5-e9cd9f76fae1) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1921.364
- **1796**, Cherry Blossoms in the Wind. Print, late 1790s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/49bb1e6f-9c1d-4972-9ca3-b99a4ed42735) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.97
- **1796**, Brooklyn Museum - A Kyoto Geisha - Yamaguchi Soken. maiko geisha Kyoto photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f725b7f9-814c-4da2-a49b-2d88146c64d8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brooklyn_Museum_-_A_Kyoto_Geisha_-_Yamaguchi_Soken.jpg
### 1797
- **1797**, Shiraito Waterfall at Hakone. Painting, 19th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d2e01d19-fc20-40a4-8876-1ea510f0ad36) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/40336
- **1797**, Sumo Wrestlers Inariyama and Matsuozaki. Print, ca. 1807, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3260cf64-fd3b-4f98-acb2-9df93f6b3fc5) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/931209
- **1797**, Mandarin Ducks in a Spring Landscape: Program for a Jururui Performance. Woodblock print, ca. 1807, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/539e70b2-51c4-4f48-a1c7-3720f193625e) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/54231
- **1797**, River Gorge in Snow. Print, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/237a24a6-2986-46e2-946f-6a5a6868b952) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/55628
- **1797**, Blue Bird. Print, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f2aa7a25-3472-4eed-8850-3b9ebeeeb324) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/56698
- **1797**, Evening Snow. Woodblock print, 1797–1861, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5d5014c5-0176-454e-a894-402cbc1095b3) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/57044
### 1800
- **1800**, Sake Cup with Gourd-Shaped Sake Bottles and Sake Cups. Sake cup, first half 19th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8df85b37-234f-4810-8c50-e9e4f2818402) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/52317
- **1800**, Inrō with Tanabata Story of the Weaver and the Herdboy. Inrō, active first half of the19th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a428171e-9da1-4545-99a6-e5e424fc197a) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/58628
- **1800**, Case (Inrō) with Design of Fisherman, Boat, Reeds, and Stone Basket Breakwaters. Inrō, 19th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6061d523-e3e0-4d34-9b55-2296144f925d) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/58890
- **1800**, Connoisseur’s Album of Edo-Period Silk Fragments. Book of silk fragments, 19th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e467dbce-09be-4ee4-b91f-4b122db256c1) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/65615
- **1800**, Sumo Wrestling. Painting, 19th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9017b4c5-99e9-4fff-b84a-d8bea91de8a5) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/45809
- **1800**, Case (Inrō) with Design of Old Man and Woman (Jo and Uba) and Pine Trees (from Noh Play "T. Inrō, 19th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/2b1249f1-ec49-4fbf-ac4c-756d64554512) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/58892
- **1800**, Paulownias and Chrysanthemums. Painting, early 1800s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d13e723b-8414-4dc8-8a87-2fcccaebf183) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.386
- **1800**, Courtesan Reading a Letter. Painting, early 1800s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1d9ea727-953e-4284-9290-f8a72d7f4e81) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.261
- **1800**, Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji period (1868-1912), 19th century - Sash (Obi) - 192. Japanese textile obi silk Edo period. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5c0ad57d-a1e1-4dce-a910-70606f5d5911) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Japan,_Edo_period_(1615-1868)_or_Meiji_period_(1868-1912),_19th_century_-_Sash_(Obi)_-_1921.1145.b_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.jpg
- **1800**, Utagawa Kunisada: a woodblock print, about 1800, a third example. Print, 19th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ae74973f-2a5c-48cc-a21f-16df7b728736) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/57997
- **1800**, Utagawa Kunisada: a woodblock print, about 1800. Print, 19th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/566040de-6fef-4181-8078-9f97507802af) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/58025
- **1800**, Utagawa Kunisada: a woodblock print, about 1800, example 4. Print, 19th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b841b09a-1830-4342-b902-438b9db17e0e) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/58053
- **1800**, Utagawa Kunisada: a woodblock print, about 1800, a second example. Print, 19th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/74d480c5-b304-4bfd-95be-3bdf9d667716) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/58067
- **1800**, Case (Inrō) with Design of Sheaves of Rice in Boats. Inrō, 19th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f0a8adc8-6980-4cb7-b8e4-59878a2e6ade) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/58900
- **1800**, Inrō with Peacocks and Flowers. Inrō, 19th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/dd75db14-4e86-4765-8aef-304c33b93239) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/58927
- **1800**, Netsuke of Snail on a Box. Netsuke, 19th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ed350784-ee48-4e0b-bf80-f08b407dacbe) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/59054
- **1800**, Netsuke of Seated Puppy with Short Curled Tail. Netsuke, first half of the 19th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/930dc3b6-2ff5-4185-9fdb-fa471fd99cb0) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/59623
### 1801
- **1801**, Blade and Mounting for a Sword (Katana), a second example by Naotane Taikei. Blade and mounting for a sword (Katana), blade, dated 1839; mounting, 19th century, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6d160b36-c11a-4b8c-8a0a-4e5bf90b806b) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/21889
- **1801**, 唐草図鐔 Sword Guard (Tsuba). Sword guard (\<i\>Tsuba\</i\>), 19th century, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/048320ff-6dac-423f-8a60-02e8770f76a3) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/23060
### 1804
- **1804**, Beauty in Snow. Hanging scroll, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/59c4d903-a8dc-47bc-9b4f-01520d3399a4) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/78141
### 1810
- **1810**, Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 3: Mountain Dove and Peach Flowers. Woodblock print, ca. 1820, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/fd9840eb-48ea-48a8-8f93-3bfd6673f2f6) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/54149
### 1811
- **1811**, Sumo Wrestler Tamagaki Gakunosuke IV. Print, 1811–14 (possibly ca. 1813), Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/76b07b71-05a0-456c-b05f-5eac7e8f458b) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/931210
- **1811**, Sumo Wrestler Hiodoshi Katsugorō. Print, 1811–14 (possibly ca. 1813), Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c3bb858c-0c0b-47b3-930b-16fb28135b51) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/931211
### 1813
- **1813**, New Year’s Sake Bottles and Shrine Plaque (Ema) for the Year of the Rooster. Woodblock print, probably 1813 or 1825, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d9cc406b-be0e-44f2-9aa3-2d6dc47cab68) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/54535
### 1816
- **1816**, Textile Cover for Shazanrō Picture Book. Bound Volume, 1816, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/59eb94bf-da41-4c25-b357-5c87c04503c4) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.375.a
### 1817
- **1817**, Preface. Portfolio, 1817, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f69b8b5f-b2fd-4f4e-b54c-47013d409ee6) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.117.1.1
- **1817**, Portrait of Kō Sūkoku. Painting, possibly 1817, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/cfc929d1-64ea-4dbd-a354-1a8b5d8811e2) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.8
### 1819
- **1819**, Picture Album Transmitting the Spirit: The Hokusai Drawing Style (Denshin gafu Hokusai gas. Illustrated book, 1819, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/922981f2-0526-4405-bac4-74427859adfa) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/78795
### 1820
- **1820**, Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), or The Great Wave, from the series Th. Woodblock print, ca. 1830–32, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/df9e5ccb-2ac7-40c8-b556-7bbbc7fd1142) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/39799
- **1820**, Yashima Gakutei: a woodblock print, about 1820. Print, ca. 1830, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f9e12a8b-d596-40bd-ac57-43e146ca8ce4) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/54344
- **1820**, Katsushika Hokusai: a woodblock print, about 1820. Print, 1820, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5e973047-4424-4668-9ef2-e98760ed99b3) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/54378
- **1820**, Various Pictures by Hokusai (Hokusai soga) 北斎麁画, a second example by Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎. Illustrated book, 1820 (Bunsei 3), Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/37b6e0a0-525b-4237-966d-31014c892321) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/78797
- **1820**, Various Pictures by Hokusai (Hokusai soga) 北斎麁画. Illustrated book, 1820, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/2ab45998-21f6-4005-9383-caf50d962b93) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/78798
### 1823
- **1823**, Hokusai42 fuji-lake. Hokusai "Thirty-six Views" Fuji. Part of the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, no. 42, 6 th additional woodcut. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/19c1ca48-e368-4254-aa65-dcc5b26f40ef) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hokusai42_fuji-lake.jpg
### 1829
- **1829**, Six Jewel Rivers. Handscrolls, ca. 1839, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/965ead83-f408-447c-8649-ce3af486abef) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/53427
- **1829**, Ichikawa Ebijūrō II as Horiguchi Manzaemon (right), Arashi Rikan II as Kizu Kansuke, Nakay. Print, 1829, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/00f8ad3c-1599-4652-aab4-6f6d1817347e) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.62
### 1830
- **1830**, Woman by a Plum Tree Matched with the Wisteria Maiden (from a series of women compared to. Print, c. early 1830s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f3966695-0e07-4859-8a53-ae22c755eca5) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1921.319
- **1830**, South Wind, Clear Sky, from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. Print, early 1830s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/43c627dc-05fb-4dde-9024-955c74354a74) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.189
- **1830**, Rain Below the Mountain (from the series Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji). Print, early 1830s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/02aceb49-3188-4bf1-8b69-17d9107b49a6) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.1002
- **1830**, Ōmori, from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital. Print, early 1830s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a8a88af1-1908-4b25-8ca9-370ced31efa5) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.335
- **1830**, Red Fuji southern wind clear morning. Hokusai "Thirty-six Views" Fuji. Part of the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, no. 33. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9f6eaf3e-9338-4fa2-ac7b-b3342800777a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_Fuji_southern_wind_clear_morning.jpg
- **1830**, Tsunami by hokusai 19th century. Hokusai "Thirty-six Views" Fuji. Although it is often used in tsunami literature, there is no reason to suspect that Hokusai intended it to be interpreted in that way. The waves in this work are sometimes mistakenly referred to as tsunami (津波), but they are more accurately called okinami (沖波), great [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f08d7d8c-e6c9-4982-a9f8-39674ebc923b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tsunami_by_hokusai_19th_century.jpg
### 1832
- **1832**, Wisteria and White-headed Bird. Woodblock print, ca. 1842, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a0f21d0c-94c3-48b6-8376-7fbfb60f9b97) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/36727
### 1833
- **1833**, Driving Rain at Shōno, from Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaidō. Print, 1833, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3bc66ade-12b1-47fc-8fd1-fb1534a82ea6) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.306
- **1833**, Evening Snow at Kambara (number sixteen of the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido). Print, 1833, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ad790193-0422-4bf6-b285-b50152f8d287) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.317
- **1833**, HIROSHIGE-Snow-Kanbara-Tokaido. Hiroshige Tokaido woodblock print. Utagawa Hiroshige: Snow in Kanbara, 53 Stations of Tokaido, 1833. Color print, 26x38 cm. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d3e8aa3d-0d28-453f-b8d5-95b9e8bb30e0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HIROSHIGE-Snow-Kanbara-Tokaido.jpg
### 1835
- **1835**, Poem by Emperor Sanjo, from the series One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets Explained by. Print, 1835–36, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e1bb37f0-7d60-4655-b7f7-6eac23469aac) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.326
- **1835**, Poem by Minamoto no Muneyuki from the series One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets Explai. Print, 1835–36, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a163ae57-a14e-4bb9-9d68-b4d1a2b369ac) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.327
### 1838
- **1838**, Yokkaichi: View of the Mie River, from the series The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō. Print, c. 1833–34, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/abae314c-ed7b-4331-bc10-c2bab67c01d3) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.307
### 1843
- **1843**, Nissaka: The Night-Weeping Stone at Sayo no Nakayama, from the series The Fifty-Three Stat. Print, c. 1848–50, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d9c7f244-c11a-4005-9ac2-3de57fd889fd) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.323
### 1845
- **1845**, Tōkaidô gojūsan tsugi saiken zu'e, Nihonbashi by Hiroshige. Hiroshige Tokaido woodblock print. Nihonbashi: Travelers from the Country Sightseeing in Edo (Inaka dôsha Edo kenbutsu), from the series Pictorial Guide to the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô: Customs of the Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi saiken zue, dôchû fûzoku) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/bac0ccf1-176a-4f05-929e-9a4975835446) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:T%C5%8Dkaid%C3%B4_goj%C5%ABsan_tsugi_saiken_zu%27e,_Nihonbashi_by_Hiroshige.jpg
### 1850
- **1850**, A Glance at Miyosaki, Yokohama. Print, ca. 1860, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8ccdc313-53f9-4977-a683-384ed5f9812c) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/55457
- **1850**, Incense Box with Scene from Noh Play Kokaji. Box and tray, second half of the 19th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/537c06b3-3afd-473b-9ab5-8e56be511d70) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/58339
- **1850**, Gathering of Otsu-e Subjects. Painting, late 1800s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/24f30d59-f6b6-4fb7-b457-04f611c42d99) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.9
### 1854
- **1854**, The Actor Ichikawa Ichizō III as Nozarashi Gosuke, likened to Shi Jin the Nine Dragoned (K. Print, 1854, 7th month), Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/4e8fea3c-f8a5-4fa6-8671-844ffd64d028) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/55527
### 1857
- **1857**, Six Jewel Rivers from Various Provinces. Prints, 1857, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b809dea6-122a-4d14-995a-be779b73f60b) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/53449
- **1857**, Eight Views of Kanazawa at Night. Print, 1857, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/177e5b9e-2a1d-4b2a-ba41-35e82567a783) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.967
- **1857**, The Whirlpools of Awa. Print, 1857, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c7cc423b-fb47-4c19-8518-d80f633cffc5) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.183
### 1860
- **1860**, JapaneseMissionInWashington. samurai photograph 1860s Japan. The 1860 Japanese Mission to the United States. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8f30cc31-f559-4f1b-923f-1079bfe294fb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JapaneseMissionInWashington.jpg
- **1860**, Curio Shop in Yokohama. Print, 3rd month, 1860, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/235cea97-5fae-4d44-b7c2-aabb2147d033) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/73395
- **1860**, Detailed Print of Yokohama Hon-chō and the Miyozaki Pleasure Quarter. Print, 4th month, 1860, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/751a49d4-7261-4c3b-8d36-a38a97a0f45f) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/73400
- **1860**, Samurai. 1860s Japan. Samurai in complete armour [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/399a9fcf-d0a3-4d5b-8d91-dd7d4ea330fb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samurai.jpg
- **1860**, Satsuma-samurai-during-boshin-war-period. samurai photograph 1860s Japan. Samurai of the Chosyu clan, during the Boshin War period [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/212e6b47-c2e5-4f74-a0cb-68993138723c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Satsuma-samurai-during-boshin-war-period.jpg
- **1860**, Shōsai Ikkei: a woodblock print, about 1860, a second example. Print, ca. 1870, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/4e687081-7280-4bd0-aa28-390a40bc4415) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/55219
- **1860**, Shōsai Ikkei: a woodblock print, about 1860. Print, ca. 1870, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/36967cfc-041e-4321-af96-1e7a6a0bbf28) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/55220
### 1861
- **1861**, Revised Yokohama Landscape. Print, 2nd month, 1861, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d7f4c8c0-b118-4319-ae24-3d9cfaeb7035) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/73410
- **1861**, A Foreign Residence in Yokohama. Print, 1861, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6eefa1aa-a11a-4d64-8ce3-12149937dbbb) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/73445
- **1861**, Sumo Wrestler Tossing a Foreigner. Print, 1st month, 1861, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ef635683-e114-43cb-aca9-bbb59408d859) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/73516
- **1861**, Sake Cups with Auspicious Flora. Ceramic, 1861–78, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/fc19f8d7-0ee8-48ee-8892-bdd179e7ec65) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.145
- **1861**, Bowl with Seven Treasures. Ceramic, 1861–78, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/34d08697-0805-456e-b8e6-f48eb3a4bc6e) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.146.a
- **1861**, Cover for a Bowl with Seven Treasures. Ceramic, 1861–78, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8902fb36-9c0a-46b0-8332-06c34e999acc) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.146.b
- **1861**, Utagawa: a woodblock print, about 1861. Print, 1861 (Bunkyu 1, 1st month), Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e730b393-e74a-468e-a66f-5a9f6bbb9a73) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/55614
### 1865
- **1865**, Buddhist Temple LACMA M.91.377.49. Japanese Buddhist temple pagoda photograph. 1865 Photographs Albumen print, hand-colored Unframed: 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. (20.96 x 26.67 cm) Gift of Mrs. Ruthe Feldman in memory of Philip Feldman (M.91.377.49) Photography [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3fda3d8f-a7cf-4779-aac9-fc9d90b21686) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buddhist_Temple_LACMA_M.91.377.49.jpg
### 1867
- **1867**, Japanese Woman Painting a Fan (recto); Standing Woman Holding Up Her Dress (verso). Drawing, c. 1872, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/7eba9598-35e1-49a0-9718-7162087c8df2) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1933.222
### 1868
- **1868**, Reception by the Japanese of the Americans at Yokohama. Print, 1870s, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/31cfb39b-4b4c-4d57-9318-90f50846e4b9) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/55414
- **1868**, Poem Card Box with Lid. Lacquer, 1868–1912, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/7a5a72d5-b622-444f-b8c2-717d03f1e871) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.120
- **1868**, Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Chrysanthemum and Plum. Lacquer, late 1800s-early 1900s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/74daf3be-4027-47bb-bdc4-2b719874dc82) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.389
- **1868**, The Japanese Robe. Painting, ca. 1872, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/73b7ea3f-a740-4983-891a-f142b3bc8cb7) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437756
### 1869
- **1869**, Calligraphy (reverse). Painting, late 1800s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6dd6bddd-9288-4662-8f7f-40d5c88eebf3) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.286.b
### 1870
- **1870**, \[Two Japanese Women in Traditional Dress with Fan and Screen\]. Photograph, 1870s, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ecff9ca0-e18a-4fc7-85fb-f3830b17d3a9) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/288513
### 1871
- **1871**, Kesa (Buddhist priest's robe). Robe, late 19th to early 20th century, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/4cb1cfb6-4924-4bfb-8a35-f9ad5a7aa147) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/460774
- **1871**, Netsuke of a Small Gourd on a Halved-Gourd. Netsuke, late 19th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8e12d01a-3800-4bcc-bbc4-096255acd94b) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/59039
- **1871**, Netsuke of Seated Shishi Clutching a Ball. Netsuke, late 19th century, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5ef812dc-2f27-44a0-9967-6f2f4c742ca5) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/59052
### 1878
- **1878**, A shamisen LCCN2009630121. Shamisen. Title: A shamisen Abstract/medium: 1 drawing: ink; 5.4 x 9.2 (image), 9.7 x 14.1 cm (sheet) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5be736c4-8465-4199-ac54-a9ced1400cb3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_shamisen_LCCN2009630121.jpg
- **1878**, A shamisen LCCN2009630123. Shamisen. Title: A shamisen Abstract/medium: 1 drawing: ink; 5.5 x 9.2 (image), 10 x 13.8 cm (sheet) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/03c00be8-40bd-4038-a271-6558848dce38) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_shamisen_LCCN2009630123.jpg
### 1879
- **1879**, The Life of President Grant in Japanese. illustrated book, 1879, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/7719a9ac-6a71-48b3-bcef-9729e6338991) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/670953
### 1880
- **1880**, Ginza in 1880s. Meiji era Japan photograph 1880s. Ginza in 1880s [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/acef7ab2-6072-43a9-aa1e-0b9406234701) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ginza_in_1880s.JPG
- **1880**, Kabuki actors dressed as samurai in 1880. samurai photograph 1860s Japan. Kabuki actors dressed like samurai, handcolored photograph around 1880 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/0d940a75-9bad-4340-b9ae-cfa25247bf82) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kabuki_actors_dressed_as_samurai_in_1880.jpg
### 1887
- **1887**, High-Footed Bowl with Lotus Pond. Ceramic, 1887–92, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ca7d5ae5-ac6a-44e2-8550-e7beb0479bdd) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.155
- **1887**, Sake Pourer with Chrysanthemum, Orchid, and Plum. Ceramic, c. 1887, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/592bde4d-8ec8-46b4-8ca6-6e162c24e16f) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.158
### 1889
- **1889**, Nintendo 1889. Nintendo headquarters Kyoto building. A photograph of Nintendo's first headquarters in Kyoto, Japan in 1889 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/69d4a711-e969-47f1-87b4-0766696a7f03) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nintendo_1889.jpg
### 1890
- **1890**, Kusakabe Kimbei - 577 Bluff Yokohama. Meiji era Japan photograph 1880s. View of Western-style House on the Bluff, Yokohama Japanese Meiji era Photograph, hand-tinted albumen print Image: 19.7 x 26.2 cm (7 3/4 x 10 5/16 in.) Lender Accessory (Album Cover): 24.1 x 33 x 2.2 cm (9 1/2 x 13 x 7/8 in.) Sharf No.: FASBLC1 Museum of Fine Arts, [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5d72a1f3-9f3a-4836-aa5d-4cb4d41b06ad) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kusakabe_Kimbei_-_577_Bluff_Yokohama.jpg
- **1890**, Tsuneshige: a woodblock print, about 1890. Print, ca. 1900, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/11821d88-0cf9-4570-b65e-9b891a46cf5c) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/55176
### 1893
- **1893**, Teacup from Tea Set with Orchids. Ceramic, c. 1893–1914, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/30b78bc6-641a-4f5d-9277-1dffae51a72d) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.170.3
- **1893**, Teacup from Tea Set with Orchids, a second example by Seifū Yohei III. Ceramic, c. 1893–1914, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/859cb009-9204-4816-93f6-7da0e7bcf343) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.170.5
- **1893**, Pine-shaped Dish. Ceramic, 1893–1914, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/59885085-a245-4f41-acf2-a73ca2595b64) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.182
- **1893**, Sweets Bowl. Ceramic, 1893–1914, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/aca90bed-9547-40cb-b00f-33a566d40275) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.195
### 1896
- **1896**, Kajita Hanko: a woodblock print, about 1896. Print, ca. 1906, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/38be809e-f12c-4467-86ea-fe395e6aeea9) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/55188
### 1897
- **1897**, A Street in Tokyo (1897). One of the earliest surviving films shot in Japan, made in 1897 during the Meiji era and published by the National Film Archive through its Meiji Japan on Film portal. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/68e07c24-7a03-4aca-8b71-e5a5ccf111c1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCjFbz3SvSc
### 1899
- **1899**, Momijigari (1899) - Digitally Restored. An excerpt from the digital restoration of Momijigari, filmed in 1899 with kabuki actors Ichikawa Danjuro IX and Onoe Kikugoro V, the oldest surviving Japanese film shot by Japanese hands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/de4ca473-0095-4950-a277-112cbd36bb47) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvxBYvclu3Q
### 1900
- **1900**, Water Container with Peonies. Ceramic, 1900–1914, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3c4f5ab7-7de7-4eea-bdae-a02471e4a2df) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.197
- **1900**, Lid for a Water Container with Peonies. Ceramic, 1900–1914, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d74474ce-bcfa-4e05-b2c6-515ec08f5d9a) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.197.b
### 1904
- **1904**, Russo-Japanese War Shunga, Eisen Tomioka. Russo-Japanese war print 1904. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/09aa6346-df43-4c61-a496-003b1d487c1e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Russo-Japanese_War_Shunga,_Eisen_Tomioka.jpg
### 1907
- **1907**, Les Troubles de Coree. Japanese Empire soldiers 1900s photograph. "TROUBLES OF KOREA". Japanese soldiers fight against Koreans. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/14ebffbf-804a-4ef2-b846-30235a7dd779) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Les_Troubles_de_Coree.jpg
### 1910
- **1910**, Haibara. Washi. 榛原 紙製品 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ac603c4f-1bb9-4c52-a213-acba8a8d6c82) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haibara.jpg
### 1914
- **1914**, Water Container with Shell and Seaweed, a second example by Seifū Yohei IV. Ceramic, 1914–46, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9c2b00f3-1bbe-44c4-a729-9662f2b15c6b) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.212
- **1914**, Water Container with Shell and Seaweed. Ceramic, 1914–46, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/36b2f170-4f3d-4971-a573-082293148bb4) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.212.a
- **1914**, Lid for a Water Container with Shell and Seaweed. Ceramic, 1914–46, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d7394620-d869-458e-a9ea-e93e1df8343b) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.212.b
- **1914**, Guan-Shaped Vessel with Floral Scroll. Ceramic, 1914–46, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6777cda1-163f-42da-8692-649d148c91a3) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.227
- **1914**, Sweets Bowl with Plum Tree. Ceramic, 1914–46, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/00c521f7-b28b-4c36-baa5-9e10bf5380a8) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.242
### 1923
- **1923**, Desolation of Nihonbashi and Kanda after Kanto Earthquake. Great Kanto earthquake 1923 Tokyo. Desolation of Nihonbashi and Kanda (central Tokyo) seen from the Roof of Dai-ichi Sogo Building, Kyobashi after the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ea01e53f-1cba-4a19-b3b7-fc7b750a330c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Desolation_of_Nihonbashi_and_Kanda_after_Kanto_Earthquake.jpg
- **1923**, Robert L. Capp Great Kantō earthquake 3. Great Kanto earthquake 1923 Tokyo. Photos of 1923 Great Kantō earthquake - Robert L. Capp Collection [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/0a33a5dd-273c-4d72-ad0f-f623a3f63006) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_L._Capp_Great_Kant%C5%8D_earthquake_3.jpg
- **1923**, Robert L. Capp Great Kantō earthquake 4. Great Kanto earthquake 1923 Tokyo. Photos of 1923 Great Kantō earthquake - Robert L. Capp Collection [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/64f182e1-3b52-40dd-9561-5c5e9dac716a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_L._Capp_Great_Kant%C5%8D_earthquake_4.jpg
### 1931
- **1931**, Sacred Dances Offered at Meiji Shrine, 1931. Silent Ministry of Education film recording eight ritual dances chosen from across Japan and performed at Meiji Jingu on 4 November 1930 for the shrine's tenth anniversary, including Chichibu-bayashi, Saeki kagura and the Tsuwano heron dance. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/152bc4ea-dd40-4c1f-aa94-5843b816207a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y-nb7_V7Ag
### 1934
- **1934**, Nippon (1934) - Full Film. The 1934 documentary Nippon, produced by the Tokyo Nichi Nichi and Osaka Mainichi newspapers, published in full by Japan's national film archive as part of its historic film portal. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/0cee9c89-754c-4eaf-a1b2-caea3fdc398e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3j0jqGw5pI
### 1941
- **1941**, Attack on Pearl Harbor Japanese minisub. Pearl Harbor attack 1941 photograph. The Japanese "Type A" midget submarine HA-19 partially hauled up on and eastern Oahu beach, during salvage by U.S. forces. It had grounded on 7 December 1941, following attempts to enter Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack, and was discovered the following da [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/4c69b907-efda-437b-b310-9c314af78617) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor_Japanese_minisub.jpg
- **1941**, Attack on Pearl Harbor Japanese planes view. Pearl Harbor attack 1941 photograph. Photograph taken from a Japanese plane during the torpedo attack on ships moored on both sides of Ford Island shortly after the beginning of the Pearl Harbor attack. View looks about east, with the supply depot, submarine base and fuel tank farm in the right cent [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/26675442-46d1-4c43-be74-40c9f679d0f0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor_Japanese_planes_view.jpg
- **1941**, Pearl Harbor wide view attack. Pearl Harbor attack 1941 photograph. Panorama view of Pearl Harbor, during the Japanese raid on 7 December 1941, with anti-aircraft shell bursts overhead. The photograph looks southwesterly from the hills behind the harbor. Large column of smoke in lower right center is from the burning USS Arizona [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/153ca479-711b-4be9-afd9-9fe7517e09f3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pearl_Harbor_wide_view_attack.jpg
- **1941-12-07**, The only live news report from the attack on Pearl Harbor. Smithsonian Channel presentation of the surviving recording from an NBC radio affiliate in Honolulu on 7 December 1941, phoned through to New York as the attack unfolded. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/0cecfa77-e5bf-4901-b1b0-932c210c3d9d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBDbrf6Nktk
### 1943
- **1943**, Adachigahara UMEWAKA Rokuro 55th. noh theatre performance stage Japan. stage photo: Noh play Kurozuka(Adachigahara), UMEWAKA Rokuro(55th) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/21d9e92a-3f49-4926-9d48-fa534e3ee28f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adachigahara_UMEWAKA_Rokuro_55th.jpg
- **1943**, Kagekiyo KONPARU Eijiro ARS30. noh theatre performance stage Japan. stage photo: Noh play Kagekiyo, KONPARU Eijiro [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/0183467e-c381-4810-90a2-518db7dd5762) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kagekiyo_KONPARU_Eijiro_ARS30.jpg
### 1945
- **1945**, Nagasaki temple destroyed. Nagasaki 1945 destroyed city ruins. Battered religious figures stand watch on a hill above a tattered valley. Nagasaki, Japan. September 24, 1945, 6 weeks after the city was destroyed by the world's second atomic bomb attack. Photo by Cpl. Lynn P. Walker, Jr. (Marine Corps) NARA FILE #: 127-N-136176 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8906dfe7-0129-43a8-8eae-71b43537dc14) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nagasaki_temple_destroyed.jpg
- **1945**, Nagasaki temple destroyed poster. Nagasaki 1945 destroyed city ruins. Battered religious figures stand watch on a hill above a tattered valley. Nagasaki, Japan. September 24, 1945, 6 weeks after the city was destroyed by the world's second atomic bomb attack. Photo by Cpl. Lynn P. Walker, Jr. (Marine Corps) NARA FILE #: 127-N-136176 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/55e8e8be-339f-48f9-97cb-38b8525c520c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nagasaki_temple_destroyed_poster.jpg
- **1945**, Kinugawa no Kasane. yokai Japanese folklore print. A painting of Kasane, an infamous ghost of Japanese folklore, by Tekisui Ishii (1882–1945), printed on a postcard by the Sanshokuban Printing Company. Scan by Fred Cherrygarden. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/43866f41-a9af-472f-acf0-8468d96993f5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kinugawa_no_Kasane.jpg
- **1945-08-06**, President Truman announces the bombing of Hiroshima. Recording held by the Harry S. Truman Library of Truman announcing from the USS Augusta that the United States had dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6e7ccdfc-88f7-4483-99d2-35bf5921b8bc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_A8LPtuX5c
- **1945-08-06**, AP file film of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Associated Press archive film of the Hiroshima bombing of August 1945, catalogued in the AP syndication library. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/853041ff-fb7b-424b-a0e0-31684e3035ee) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeZ547TC_34
### 1950
- **1950**, Rashomon - Original Theatrical Trailer. The original theatrical trailer for Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950), the Akutagawa adaptation whose contradictory testimonies gave English the phrase 'the Rashomon effect'. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f2f07efb-9f20-4137-aac2-6b9d281b1e2a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZE3Px6U9rc
### 1953
- **1953**, Tokyo Story - Trailer. Shochiku's trailer for Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story (1953), the study of an ageing couple visiting their grown children that regularly tops critics' lists of the greatest films ever made. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/23487be4-6ef0-488e-8cc5-d5b421173603) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StiGqgPSggQ
### 1954
- **1954**, Seven Samurai (1954) - Original Trailer. The original Toho trailer for Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, winner of the Silver Lion at Venice and the template for the ensemble action film worldwide. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3037798c-c242-445b-811a-7d3da66a760e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jZF-Ujv2z4
- **1954**, Godzilla (1954) - Trailer. Toho's official trailer for Ishiro Honda's Godzilla, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya, the nuclear-allegory monster film that founded the kaiju genre in postwar Japanese cinema. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/eb11339e-cac5-493a-847b-004dfc31ac6f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIBFhpxAcRE
### 1963
- **1963**, Astro Boy (1963) - Tezuka Productions Official Clip. Official Tezuka Productions clip from Astro Boy, Japan's first domestically produced television anime series, which began broadcasting on 1 January 1963. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/34dd0c37-73c6-4a42-9673-38681983584b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGq6z1mEU9Q
- **1963**, The road to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. TBS archive footage of Japan preparing for the 1964 Games: the National Stadium, the Metropolitan Expressway, the Shinkansen, and the evictions and lodging shortages that followed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/bb28c6b6-4a19-44cb-afe0-6f7dc07433cc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFD9OZ-OAmc
### 1964
- **1964**, Tokyo Renaissance 1964: the city rebuilt for the Olympics. Tokyo Metropolitan Government's own 1964 record film on the stadiums, expressways, monorail and Shinkansen built for the Games, and the water and housing shortages that came with the population boom. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/69e41778-c3a6-4bbd-999f-ec3558feca2f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNN-t6t7xuU
- **1964-10-01**, Opening day of the Tokaido Shinkansen, 1 October 1964. TV Asahi archive of the first day of the Tokaido Shinkansen, opened days before the Tokyo Olympics, annotated shot by shot including the original 0 series carriages. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c88f15cc-03df-4d27-8249-df8ff10811a2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2apTBfw-e8
### 1969
- **1969**, All Japan Jazz Festival 1969: Hino, Watanabe, Otsuka. Live recording from the 1969 All Japan Jazz Festival with the Terumasa Hino Quintet, Sadao Watanabe and George Otsuka, the generation that built Japan's own jazz idiom. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e9b58bd3-9b0b-4181-a430-33f565567021) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksk8xIhFybs
### 1971
- **1971**, Terumasa Hino plays Freedom Jazz Dance, 1971. Terumasa Hino with the Swing Journal jazz poll winners in 1971, at the height of the Japanese modern jazz boom that followed Miles Davis's electric period. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6fe5a58e-0289-4321-bc9c-64bcc3229409) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTHCE1uv9vs
### 1974
- **1974**, Castle of Sand - Trailer. Shochiku's trailer for Yoshitaro Nomura's Castle of Sand (1974), the Seicho Matsumoto adaptation regarded as a peak of the Japanese social-problem mystery film. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/65f6064f-41db-43e1-965e-67f6b0513f95) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPCk0LG0xFs
### 1978
- **1978**, Taito Space Invaders - Original Japanese Commercial. The period Taito television advertisement for Space Invaders, the 1978 arcade release said to have caused a shortage of 100-yen coins in Japan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1a4f139b-946b-49ea-b14e-28a586b21d99) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAPu8hZutqQ
### 1979
- **1979**, Yellow Magic Orchestra: Behind the Mask, live at the Greek Theatre (1979). Official ALFA Music release of YMO performing 'Behind the Mask' at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles in 1979, the tour that carried Japanese synthpop to American audiences. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/baa7169b-2c63-4bc3-8919-224462a14b34) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIieWn42beY
### 1980
- **1980-06-21**, Yellow Magic Orchestra: Rydeen (1980). Official music video for YMO's 'Rydeen', introduced on Solid State Survivor in 1979 and released as a single on 21 June 1980. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/0a1d9301-022c-49fd-a532-0ce4bd63bbee) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxep-gS-Btg
### 1981
- **1981**, Yohji Yamamoto's 1981 Tokyo show, to Gang of Four. Archive footage from the opening of Yohji Yamamoto's 180-look show at the Den-en Colosseum in Tokyo in 1981, the year he and Rei Kawakubo also debuted in Paris. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f7f8ea53-a357-44d8-8c0d-624a80833c21) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96vkVYfbYQU
### 1984
- **1984**, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind - 1984 Promotional Reel. The period promotional reel for Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the 1984 Miyazaki film whose success led directly to the founding of Studio Ghibli in 1985. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b1e4d24d-c932-4477-a863-324e24217ae9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jecDZ-42Gg
- **1984**, Mariya Takeuchi: Plastic Love (1984). Official full-length video for Plastic Love, from the 1984 album Variety. The song became the emblem of the city pop revival after YouTube's algorithm surfaced it worldwide; this video was directed by Kyotaro Hayashi in 2019. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/974f850d-7720-4e70-bba9-c43f0576feaa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_lC2O1oIew
- **1984**, Ennosuke III: Kabuki Actor. Documentary following Ichikawa Ennosuke III preparing two major productions, including the 1979 revival of the five-hour play Date no Juyaku. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/0f055696-6ce2-4fe9-b14f-d75633df612f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdLPtdzunxg
### 1988
- **1988**, Akira: Production Report (1988). The contemporaneous Japanese production documentary made during Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira, showing the cel work, colour design and recording behind the landmark 1988 film. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9213e921-1c6b-4c48-80a9-f67fa088fb58) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5MKB5ovI8o
### 1990
- **1990-01-20**, Haruomi Hosono: Resonance of Hot Sand (NHK Special, 1990). NHK General TV documentary broadcast 20 January 1990 following Haruomi Hosono, co-founder of Yellow Magic Orchestra, through his exotica and ambient work. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/faccda0a-eb97-436c-9c32-5b70e85fa658) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1bkt8-zMIg
- **1990**, Shigeru Miyamoto in 1990, with B-Roll from Nintendo Kyoto. An interview with Shigeru Miyamoto filmed in November 1990 with Super Mario Bros. 3 behind him, plus rare B-roll of the Nintendo offices in Kyoto including Pilotwings development. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/080245e1-277f-44ca-a953-22261fef7273) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RznLrM2J8aE
- **1990**, Akira Kurosawa Receives an Honorary Oscar (1990). George Lucas and Steven Spielberg present Akira Kurosawa with an Honorary Academy Award at the 1990 ceremony, an explicit acknowledgement of his influence on Hollywood. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/4d1b5ea1-9334-4686-8535-494da6534aed) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTs5AVcArMs
### 1992
- **1992**, Street Fighter II Fever: Japanese TV Report (1992). A 1992 Japanese television feature on the Street Fighter II arcade phenomenon, filmed in the game centres and sweet shops where crowds gathered around the cabinets. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/4dad1c44-60ba-4afe-9bdf-86736bea18a8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn5EGK-Ptc0
- **1992**, Pabellon de japon expo 92. Tadao Ando building Japan. Exposición Universal Sevilla 92. Exterior del pabellón de Japón. Viaje en Abril Image0018 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/60eea1d0-efe9-4bce-af4d-f6a6c8d640b5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pabellon_de_japon_expo_92.jpg
### 1994
- **1994-10-26**, Sony Unveils the First PlayStation (1994). Archive footage from TBS of Sony Computer Entertainment's launch presentation for the original PlayStation, announced 26 October 1994 and released that December. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ac15f32d-7557-44c9-9695-dcafc41a66df) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ-xWSVmbGc
### 1995
- **1995-01-17**, Scenes of 17 January: home footage from the Kobe earthquake. Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution compilation of donated amateur film shot in Suma, Nagata, Hyogo, Nada and Higashinada wards and in Nishinomiya on the day of the earthquake. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/319294ef-a36c-445c-b851-55d1a72be0a0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=876f2O7mE58
- **1995-01-17**, Kobe 1995: the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake. Film Archive of Japan record of the magnitude 6.9 earthquake that struck southern Hyogo Prefecture at 05:46 on 17 January 1995. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9d7b36e2-f5a1-4e83-98bd-c85ae11c67e2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kRbZrfEEHc
- **1995**, Hanshin-Awaji earthquake 1995 344. Kobe earthquake 1995 damage. 阪神淡路大震災 兵庫区民家密集地 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f1d8e115-b1e1-4360-a16d-5a886a724df6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hanshin-Awaji_earthquake_1995_344.jpg
- **1995**, Hanshin-Awaji earthquake 1995 Hyogo-ku Kobe city Hyogo prefecture 001. Kobe earthquake 1995 damage. 阪神淡路大震災 兵庫区民家密集地 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/114eb624-f1b3-472d-83e9-dd5c72fc972c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hanshin-Awaji_earthquake_1995_Hyogo-ku_Kobe_city_Hyogo_prefecture_001.jpg
- **1995**, Hanshin-Awaji earthquake 1995 Tokyu Hands Sannomiya branch 001. Kobe earthquake 1995 damage. 阪神淡路大震災 兵庫県神戸市中央区 生田ロード東急ハンズ三宮店前 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/82957e31-0bff-4cd3-82fd-be910807647f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hanshin-Awaji_earthquake_1995_Tokyu_Hands_Sannomiya_branch_001.jpg
### 1996
- **1996**, Nara, Kofuku-ji Temple, five storeyed pagoda (6195650154). Japanese Buddhist temple pagoda photograph. Kōfuku-ji is a Buddhist temple in the city of Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan. Kōfuku-ji has its origin as a temple that was established in 669 by Kagami-no-Ōkimi, the wife of Fujiwara no Kamatari, wishing for her husbands’s recovery from illness. (From Wikip [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c367c65a-6f8d-4d37-9de1-f54b703a2748) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nara,_Kofuku-ji_Temple,_five_storeyed_pagoda_(6195650154).jpg
- **1996-06-22**, A Himeyuri survivor on the Battle of Okinawa. Nippon TV war archive: Hatsue Zukeran, who served in the Himeyuri student nurse corps, recounts the battle in which around 200,000 people died. Originally broadcast in 1996. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/bcbae711-eeca-443b-9248-2e3fd3890205) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTFF7SpZK5s
### 1997
- **1997**, Capcom's Great Restructuring - Japanese TV Report (1997). A 1997 Japanese broadcast on Capcom's crisis after the Street Fighter II boom faded, filming inside the company with Yoshiki Okamoto and Shinji Mikami during the Resident Evil era. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d9d8c863-dc42-4e80-8463-82ade64c2d10) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTViH-NNJ8A
- **1997**, Loose socks on Center-gai, 1997. TV Asahi archive of Shibuya schoolgirl style in 1997: loose socks, some over a metre long, which entered the new-words-and-buzzwords top ten in 1996, and me Jane shopping bags. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3fae3124-d981-4bad-8501-973fe38b9a72) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpiigZFhASc
### 1998
- **1998**, Ringu (1998) - Original Trailer. The original trailer for Hideo Nakata's Ringu, the film that launched the J-horror wave and was remade in Hollywood as The Ring in 2002. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/2da96a49-b926-4049-bac4-413214b9cc34) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4few3qzTJ_8
- **1998**, Ring - Japanese Trailer. KADOKAWA's Japanese trailer for Ring, the 1998 Nakata film adapted from Koji Suzuki's novel that made Sadako a global horror figure. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/4dbdcd09-a1ec-4887-b1e7-cbec006c26f3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxMwjmJ15Js
### 1999
- **1999-04-28**, Hikaru Utada: First Love (1999). Official video for Hikaru Utada's third single, released 28 April 1999 and cut from the album First Love, which remains the best-selling album in Japanese history. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b6070bbd-37ec-4044-874d-7b72fe11d2c9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1sUaVJUeB0
- **1999**, Heisei gyaru on Shibuya Center-gai, 1999. TV Asahi news archive of the autumn-winter 1999 look among Shibuya gyaru: sleeveless knits with arm warmers, filmed around Center-gai and Shibuya 109. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1c344b69-ea8b-459d-b0eb-ee1e3305d7de) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubUS9b48jWE
### 2000
- **2000**, Plastic Love live at the Nippon Budokan with Tatsuro Yamashita. Mariya Takeuchi performs Plastic Love with Tatsuro Yamashita on guitar at the Nippon Budokan in 2000, from the Souvenir tour. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/64a58cd5-0f35-4ea1-b6a4-1a8d49359d86) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpQCCB0Lpik
### 2001
- **2001**, Spirited Away - Official Trailer. Trailer for Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away (2001), the Studio Ghibli film that won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and the Golden Bear at Berlin. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f24d85aa-0d48-4141-a5ca-e02e50eac7a2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAp2_0JJskk
- **2001**, USMC-20421. yukata summer kimono festival photograph. The Toukasan festival is also known as the Yukata Festival, starting the beginning of the yukata wearing season. The yukata is a lightweight cotton kimono worn during the summer season. In Japan, the yukata is widely worn for everything from festivals, speci [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/86896362-cf65-4773-ac67-710531fde84f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USMC-20421.jpg
### 2002
- **2002**, Tatsuro Yamashita: Loveland, Island. Official clip for Tatsuro Yamashita's 'Loveland, Island', from the RCA/AIR years that produced the records later collected under the city pop label. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c727c4be-6a30-457f-97e8-c4768cf5eddb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YSwJh-4j1s
### 2003
- **2003**, Geisha Kyoto Gion. maiko geisha Kyoto photograph. This photograph of a geisha at work in Gion was taken by the original author with the geisha's permission. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/cbf9a600-37ce-4391-9313-96077c23b665) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Geisha_Kyoto_Gion.jpg
- **2003**, 20030702 2 July 2003 Tokyo Cathedorale 3 Tange Kenzou Sekiguchi Tokyo Japan. Kenzo Tange architecture. Tokyo Cathedrale(St. Mary's Cathedral). A work by Tange Kenzo. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/21c5181d-1409-4355-913f-852f06619483) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20030702_2_July_2003_Tokyo_Cathedorale_3_Tange_Kenzou_Sekiguchi_Tokyo_Japan.jpg
### 2004
- **2004**, Tsukiji as seen from Shiodome. Tsukiji fish market Tokyo. The Tsukiji fish market as seen from Shiodome [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/19235237-3e95-4891-99c7-cae3e0d401f2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tsukiji_as_seen_from_Shiodome.jpg
- **2004**, Geisha-kyoto-2004-11-21. maiko geisha Kyoto photograph. 2 Maiko (apprentice Geisha) conversing near the Golden Temple in Kyoto, Japan. Parts of the kimono and the special make-up are clearly visible. Foreground: senior maiko donning the ofuku hairstyle, background: junior maiko marked by the profusion of hair decorations an [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f1e3b572-a93e-410b-8a5c-e3fd8132a61e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Geisha-kyoto-2004-11-21.jpg
- **2004**, A-Bomb Dome. Hiroshima Genbaku Dome atomic. Citizens of Hiroshima walk past the A-Bomb Dome, the nearest building to have survived the city's atomic bombing in 1945, on their way to a memorial ceremony on August 6, 2004. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/483cdc15-51cf-4cc5-aae3-739e7c35710b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A-Bomb_Dome.jpg
### 2005
- **2005**, Pachinko parlor advertisement girls dsc05739. pachinko parlor Japan. Short-skirted girls advertising (I think?) a Pachinko parlor in Ueno, Tōkyō [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/23100517-2b44-4889-b880-5b3848b8ca74) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pachinko_parlor_advertisement_girls_dsc05739.jpg
- **2005**, Pachinko parlor dsc05740. pachinko parlor Japan. The front of a Pachinko parlor near Ueno, Tōkyō, Japan [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/39d727dc-cf97-42f9-84e4-905dd713ce39) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pachinko_parlor_dsc05740.jpg
- **2005**, Aruku no kanji. Japanese calligraphy shodo brush. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/22aa2365-1b3d-4409-bf00-e83f49b24e24) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aruku_no_kanji.jpg
- **2005**, Cherry blossoms akayu 2005-04. hanami cherry blossom Japan park. Photo of cherry blossoms in Eboshiyama Park, Akayu, Nanyo City, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. I took this photo with a digital camera in April 2005. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/2c6ac9aa-2913-4dd5-b1e1-d33e2c19840b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cherry_blossoms_akayu_2005-04.JPG
- **2005**, Ryoanji3361. Japanese zen garden karesansui temple. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/26086d02-2c46-4cbf-8b8a-5bbe6324045c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ryoanji3361.jpg
- **2005**, HiroshimaCenotaphMuseum6981. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park museum. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/2970b13e-3b8e-45cc-b0d6-81f25db57df1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HiroshimaCenotaphMuseum6981.jpg
- **2005**, HiroshimaCenotaphMuseum6989. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park museum. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/81258697-41a5-43d1-a3eb-7f16f0300a9b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HiroshimaCenotaphMuseum6989.jpg
- **2005**, Shimpo (shodou). Japanese calligraphy shodo brush. The Japanese word 進歩 shimpo ("progress, advancement") written on rice paper as an exercise of shodō or brush calligraphy, by Pablo D. Flores. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/99a14912-2a00-4864-8456-f8a15f2bfd5b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shimpo_(shodou).jpg
- **2005**, HiroshimaStatueFountainMuseum7042. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park museum. This photograph shows three landmarks in Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima, Japan: Statue of Mother and Child in Storm (foreground) Fountain of Prayer (middle) Peace Museum (background) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a39cc4b6-e2e8-4e06-956a-eb843ef44e03) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HiroshimaStatueFountainMuseum7042.jpg
- **2005**, Yamazaki-nabisco-Cup final 2004. Tokyo 1964 Olympics stadium. Taken photo and Stiched by LonelyPlanet. 3/Nov/2004, Yamazaki Navisco Cup final game. FC Tokyo vs. Urawa Reds [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/274dc807-58e6-49ca-ab9a-a075daf48478) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yamazaki-nabisco-Cup_final_2004.jpg
- **2005**, Chiyogami. Washi. Un exemple de washi: kyo chiyogami [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a4b229ed-2128-4f28-a0b5-4d53dc5478d9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chiyogami.JPG
### 2006
- **2006**, Shibuya crossing March 2005. Shibuya crossing Tokyo crowd. Crossing in Shibuya, Tokyo. March 2005. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e13929b0-e178-4bd5-8571-6860cfe1a2cb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shibuya_crossing_March_2005.jpg
- **2006**, Shibuya Station Crossing. Shibuya crossing Tokyo crowd. Shibuya Station Crossing Author: Leonard V Carlson User: Picturetokyo [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/7a1d918c-2b44-47b0-a022-18407106291c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shibuya_Station_Crossing.JPG
- **2006**, Akihabara Lights 1. Akihabara electric town street signs. Akihabara Lights [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/0fbe1cf9-6b3d-4f8f-b1b4-45b6cd8fc8b6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Akihabara_Lights_1.jpg
- **2006**, Akihabara Lights 2. Akihabara electric town street signs. Another image of the neon lights of Akihabara. Akihabara Lights [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1be7154b-c610-4bc8-93db-4e98ab80747a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Akihabara_Lights_2.jpg
- **2006**, Bento at Hanabishi, Koyasan. bento box Japanese meal. Bento Box at Hanabishi, Koyasan. 日々是好日弁当 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/638ba335-2d30-4f73-9f4b-3a6874f1bdf3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bento_at_Hanabishi,_Koyasan.jpg
- **2006**, Nintendo office. Nintendo headquarters Kyoto building. Building design by Yoshimura Architects, 2000. 京都市南区 2006年2月18日に投稿者が撮影 Head Quarters of Nintendo, Minami-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The picture was taken by the poster in February, 2006. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/33721bf1-499d-454d-b235-f8b524a06c0c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nintendo_office.jpg
- **2006**, Chuzao-Hosozao-shamisen. Shamisen. Chuzao-Hosozao shamisen [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8b326b2b-b2f0-4fa0-8a1e-e48350b8c334) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chuzao-Hosozao-shamisen.jpg
- **2006**, US Navy 060131-N-1194D-002 Chief Musician Roberta Haworth directs the Seventh Fleet Band's. Japanese musician concert photograph CC. Nagoya, Japan (Jan. 31, 2006) - Chief Musician Roberta Haworth directs the Seventh Fleet Band’s “Far East Edition” during a goodwill concert at the JR Central Towers in Nagoya, Japan. Hundreds of spectators turned out to hear the band play tunes ranging from [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/001832ce-22c1-445f-a18f-db6e40e35ff0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Navy_060131-N-1194D-002_Chief_Musician_Roberta_Haworth_directs_the_Seventh_Fleet_Band%27s_Far_East_Edition_during_a_goodwill_concert.jpg
- **2006**, Aki no kanji. Japanese calligraphy shodo brush. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c2571b4b-a314-4b5b-bf2e-2cdc6771c122) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aki_no_kanji.jpg
- **2006**, Cherry blossoms in Mitsuzawa-park at Yokohama Japan. hanami cherry blossom Japan park. Cherry blossoms in Mitsuzawa-park at Yokohama, Japan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/34d981c6-f443-426d-89f3-95e2a71eb0d3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cherry_blossoms_in_Mitsuzawa-park_at_Yokohama_Japan.jpg
- **2006**, Commodore Perry expedition LOC LC-USZ62-8127. Commodore Perry Japan expedition lithograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/2002f184-a70c-4847-a339-9506c871fdb5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Commodore_Perry_expedition_LOC_LC-USZ62-8127.jpg
- **2006**, Nunakumajinja05s1980. torii gate Shinto shrine Japan photograph. Nunakuma-jinja, Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6bd888e6-81ae-4877-9270-209c6fdc9236) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nunakumajinja05s1980.jpg
- **2006**, Katsura Imperial Villa 桂離宮 【Gaia Walker Slide Show Demonstration】 - panoramio (10). Katsura Imperial Villa. Katsura Imperial Villa 桂離宮 【Gaia Walker Slide Show Demonstration】 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8d4af1d1-95d1-410a-8181-65c0e7f6fb4e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Katsura_Imperial_Villa_%E6%A1%82%E9%9B%A2%E5%AE%AE_%E3%80%90Gaia_Walker_Slide_Show_Demonstration%E3%80%91_-_panoramio_(10).jpg
- **2006**, SonyWalkmanFamily. Sony Walkman cassette player object. Four members of the Sony Walkman line of wearable products for four different physical media: Top left: wearable CD player Sony D-E221 from year 2001 ( model year and tech data ) Top right: audio cassette walkman Sony WM-DD 33 built from 1991 to 1996 ( model year [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c22862d9-dd4d-4f6b-8d2e-e5e264f6d8f0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SonyWalkmanFamily.JPG
### 2007
- **2007**, KarakuriBritishMuseum. Japan robot robotics humanoid. Japanese Karakuri, circa 1800 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ed489561-2a94-4240-8676-9c86aaeb6f99) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KarakuriBritishMuseum.jpg
- **2007**, Ghibli Studio. Ghibli Museum Mitaka building. Studio Ghibli Museum [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b3cf8d05-d027-4868-b06c-32f772cacb8f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ghibli_Studio.jpg
- **2007**, FoodCourt. bento box Japanese meal. makunouchi bentou (lunchbox) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c76032f4-fef4-4224-b773-196a6495f73b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FoodCourt.jpg
- **2007**, Tsukemen, noodles topped with sliced nori. ramen bowl noodles Japan. soak-chinese-noodles,tsuke-men,japan [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/97c58a8d-8339-4a0d-97d7-b2d709d38c52) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tsukemen,_noodles_topped_with_sliced_nori.jpg
- **2007**, Tokyo arcade game. game arcade game center Japan. At first glance it looks like they have fashioned an iMac into a gaming cabinet at my local game center but on closer inspection it's a monitor that takes on the appearance of an iMac. For a start the forehead is too big and there's no iChin. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/040e67f4-6e38-4260-95e7-ec6ce31a0da0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tokyo_arcade_game.jpg
- **2007**, Kodo Taiko Drum. taiko drum performance Japan. A picture of a taiko drum used by the taiko drumming group "Kodo". Picture was taken after a performance in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan with a Canon Power Shot SD450 Digital Elph camera and modified using a Paint Shop program on a laptop computer. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8cc02694-176e-4005-933e-cea3bec8c08f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kodo_Taiko_Drum.JPG
- **2007**, US Navy 071208-N-2746V-001 Musician 3rd Class Spencer Haasenritter, left, and Musician 3rd. Japanese musician concert photograph CC. YOKOSUKA, Japan (Dec. 8, 2007) Musician 3rd Class Spencer Haasenritter, left, and Musician 3rd Class Jessica Hatfield of the U.S. 7th Fleet Band, sing with members of the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force Band during a holiday concert. The concert, held at Yo [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/fb96593b-a2dc-45a4-8f1e-d04a1eef398f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Navy_071208-N-2746V-001_Musician_3rd_Class_Spencer_Haasenritter,_left,_and_Musician_3rd_Class_Jessica_Hatfield_of_the_U.S._7th_Fleet_Band,_sing_with_members_of_the_Japan_Maritime_Self_Defense_Force_Band.jpg
- **2007**, Cherry Blossom Picnic. hanami cherry blossom Japan park. People enjoying the Cherry Blossoms in Kakuzan Park, Tsuyama. Taken by me on 9th April 2006. To be added to Tsuyama, Japan entry. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c917f8c0-4fb1-447c-8d04-48e23e579222) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cherry_Blossom_Picnic.JPG
- **2007**, Dancing geisha, Gion, Kyoto - August 30, 2007. maiko geisha Kyoto photograph. A geiko (Kyoto geisha) named Mamechika dances in Gion, Kyoto. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ae293f8a-5471-4f8b-9a36-7da7a1c7e3e0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dancing_geisha,_Gion,_Kyoto_-_August_30,_2007.jpg
- **2007**, Ennogyojayama. Gion Matsuri festival float Kyoto. Ennogyojayama [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b257091a-5cdf-40f6-a3b5-d7c9bc148821) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ennogyojayama.jpg
- **2007**, National Bunraku Theatre1. bunraku puppet theatre Japan. 国立文楽劇場 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b8dbd899-baf1-4923-b07b-dea4f5e19f48) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:National_Bunraku_Theatre1.jpg
- **2007**, Times kyoto tadao ando. Tadao Ando building Japan. Times Commercial Gallery in Kyoto [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3ac03b17-f31f-4f10-ba35-b0c348bae8f0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Times_kyoto_tadao_ando.jpg
- **2007**, Kanazawa 21st Century Museum. 21st Century Museum Kanazawa SANAA. 金沢２１世紀美術館／Kanazawa 21st Century Museum at Kanazawa, Japan. Architect: SANAA(Kazuyo Sejima+Ryue Nisizawa) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5de55ee4-51a4-4154-b482-6196cb76c0c8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kanazawa_21st_Century_Museum.jpg
- **2007**, Public seats inside 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art. 21st Century Museum Kanazawa SANAA. 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. Kanazawa,Ishikawa-pref.,Japan www.kanazawa21.jp/ Designed by SANAA 2004 www.arcspace.com/architects/sejima\_nishizawa/sejima\_nishi... Structure design Mutsuro Sasaki ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 佐々木睦朗 CONTAX G2 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c0c2d2f0-7747-414d-82a0-710d4cc6d96f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Public_seats_inside_21st_Century_Museum_of_Contemporary_Art.jpg
### 2008
- **2008**, Akihabara Signs. Akihabara electric town street signs. The obligatory snap of Akihabara Electric Town. It's not all that impressive in daylight, to be honest... but if you're a nerd, it's heaven. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9d64653e-04bd-46e3-adc8-f84aee484eab) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Akihabara_Signs.jpg
- **2008**, Biwa plectra. biwa Japanese lute instrument. Two 5-string Chikuzen biwa plectra on the left side. Two Satsuma biwa plectra on the right. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/650186c8-7ba5-4745-8c3e-10dec8f4bc69) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biwa_plectra.jpg
- **2008**, 1964 Cauldron. Tokyo 1964 Olympics stadium. "Olympic Cauldron" ( 1964 Summer Olympics ) National Olympic Stadium Tokyo, Japan [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/02cd361d-44ce-49e5-9b47-962141954b1e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1964_Cauldron.JPG
- **2008**, HiroshimaPeaceMemorialPanorama-2. Hiroshima Genbaku Dome atomic. Panorama from Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Aioi Bridge on the left, Hiroshima Peace Memorial on the center, Motoyasu Bridge on the right [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c1b253d2-afd0-40bc-a64c-10da1430785b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HiroshimaPeaceMemorialPanorama-2.jpg
- **2008**, Bunraku doll in national theatre Osaka 1. bunraku puppet theatre Japan. Bunraku\_doll\_in\_national\_theatre\_Osaka [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/bb3bdc9e-c29d-4c15-b972-7f52d5e8353a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bunraku_doll_in_national_theatre_Osaka_1.JPG
- **2008**, Bunraku doll in national theatre Osaka 2. bunraku puppet theatre Japan. Bunraku\_doll\_in\_national\_theatre\_Osaka [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/90c8f7fa-6d22-4e92-840e-504a475fe243) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bunraku_doll_in_national_theatre_Osaka_2.JPG
- **2008**, Torii gate in Shinto Shrine-Tokyo-Japan. torii gate Shinto shrine Japan photograph. Torii gate and small shrine in Chion-ji, Kyoto [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c3c8ff8b-f870-4331-a891-5a867efb4a02) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torii_gate_in_Shinto_Shrine-Tokyo-Japan.jpg
- **2008**, Katsura Rikyu (3263780873). Katsura Imperial Villa. Katsura Rikyu [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6431877d-aca2-40cf-8cba-d480b711a23f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Katsura_Rikyu_(3263780873).jpg
- **2008**, Yoyogi National Gymnasium 2008. Kenzo Tange architecture Tokyo. Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo. Architect: Kenzo Tange [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/72e67218-c2bf-40ed-8daa-0515ecd3a1c7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yoyogi_National_Gymnasium_2008.jpg
- **2008**, 東京メトロ副都心線渋谷駅 - panoramio, a second example by koji\_h. Tadao Ando building Japan. 東京メトロ副都心線渋谷駅 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/80745f92-7b99-48fb-b5bd-bab842953916) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC%E3%83%A1%E3%83%88%E3%83%AD%E5%89%AF%E9%83%BD%E5%BF%83%E7%B7%9A%E6%B8%8B%E8%B0%B7%E9%A7%85_-_panoramio.jpg
- **2008**, Katsura Rikyu (3263785269), a second example by KimonBerlin. Katsura Imperial Villa. Katsura Rikyu [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b87b563d-572e-4454-96a1-18d729443cc4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Katsura_Rikyu_(3263785269).jpg
- **2008**, Times I・II. Tadao Ando building Japan. Times I・II, at Kyoto Japan, design by Tadao Ando in 1984 and 1994. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c79742ee-fec8-48d1-9875-cb29e8f591b7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Times_I%E3%83%BBII.jpg
- **2008**, Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building Morning2. Kenzo Tange architecture. Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building No.1, at Shinjyuku Tokyo Japan, design by Kenzo Tange in 1991. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d80e81d3-a3ff-43c6-9ac1-4c69a994582d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tokyo_Metropolitan_Government_Building_Morning2.jpg
- **2008**, Toin Gakuen. Kenzo Tange architecture. Toin Gakuen (school), at Aoba-ku, Yokohama, Japan. Design by Kenzo Tange in 1986. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e583743a-123a-4b8e-a5a3-105fb84ed65a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toin_Gakuen.JPG
### 2009
- **2009**, TOPIO 3. Japan robot robotics humanoid. TOPIO ("TOSY Ping Pong Playing Robot") is a bipedal humanoid robot designed to play table tennis against a human being. TOPIO version 3.0 at Tokyo International Robot Exhibition, Nov 2009 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/2f72c79c-9fdd-4d15-90db-ce7b3cfb9dbc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TOPIO_3.jpg
- **2009**, Nakano broadway entrance. Nakano Broadway Tokyo shopping. A photo of an entrance of Nakano Broadway.Nakano,Nakano-ku,Tokyo,Japan. the head store of "Mandarake"( one of Tokyo's largest vendors of used anime and manga-related products)is located in this building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/038dfc63-a7cb-476e-8d9f-eaaf6f2a0968) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nakano_broadway_entrance.JPG
- **2009**, Ganko Ramen, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo (3217609888). ramen bowl noodles Japan. The bone is their trademark. I went in this place, and after having some trouble reading the menu outside, brought in my ticket. I like everything here that is edible, so I just kind of check the price and say a couple Hail Marys and hit a button. I walked in, and sat down [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/caf33b53-0e48-4cd5-ba49-2234fa8b17b6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ganko_Ramen,_Chiyoda_Ward,_Tokyo_(3217609888).jpg
- **2009**, Interior of amusement arcade in Japan 02. game arcade game center Japan. Arcade game exhibited in game center. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/64c68a5c-229d-4423-96cc-44c2c35132b2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interior_of_amusement_arcade_in_Japan_02.jpg
- **2009**, Male Mikado Pheasant. game arcade game center Japan. Male Mikado Pheasant (Syrmaticus mikado) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c564f55c-7177-4f47-be93-3b912a434315) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Male_Mikado_Pheasant.jpg
- **2009**, USMC-090801-M-0902C-001. taiko drum performance Japan. A Taiko drum performance captivates a massive crowd just before anticipated fireworks storm the night sky. The festival, held along the banks of the Nishiki River, attracted thousands of local Japanese citizens and service members alike, and is just one ofmany unique ev [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c8becd2c-88fb-44a5-a3dd-81b31cb6cd30) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USMC-090801-M-0902C-001.jpg
- **2009**, August 2009 Nara tourism -38976. Tōdai-ji. August 2009 Nara tourism [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/bc112d26-abe5-4d5b-ab4e-16808ffde664) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:August_2009_Nara_tourism_-38976.jpeg
- **2009**, Futami okitama shinto shrine gate. torii gate Shinto shrine Japan photograph. Futami okitama shinto shrine gate [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9f75c496-d7ee-47af-8f0c-0a78648d25ad) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Futami_okitama_shinto_shrine_gate.JPG
- **2009**, Karesansui garden in Ryoan-ji Temple (4278143227). Japanese zen garden karesansui temple. Zen rock garden. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d453395c-0c5b-4531-bbef-f89bd632b650) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karesansui_garden_in_Ryoan-ji_Temple_(4278143227).jpg
- **2009**, Shukugawa Park in spring. hanami cherry blossom Japan park. Cherry blossoms in full bloom at Shukugawa Park, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/92fac26a-03af-4f6f-8e08-8c5eb2ae3d89) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shukugawa_Park_in_spring.jpg
- **2009**, Katsura Gepparo. Katsura Imperial Villa. Katsura Villa, Kyoto, Gepparo to Shokintei [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1482f905-955b-41df-818e-b738d8d2947c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Katsura_Gepparo.jpg
- **2009**, WLA haa Sword by Kenji Nobuhide Kurihara. Japanese sword katana blade museum. Kenji Nobuhide Kurihara (active ca. 1880s) Sword Japan, Meiji period, ca. 1880 Steel, wood Gift of Allen and Nobuko Zecha, 2004 (13072.1) Sukezane (1204-1316) Sword with Scabbard Japan Blade: Kamakura period, early 14th century, steel Scabbard and guard, Meiji per [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/95ad3884-7f5b-4d5c-9d5b-a7ea588531f6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLA_haa_Sword_by_Kenji_Nobuhide_Kurihara.jpg
### 2010
- **2010**, Honda prototype robots Honda Collection Hall. Japan robot robotics humanoid. Honda prototype robots; P1, P2, P3, and P4 (from left to right). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f5592939-43db-479f-8c32-3d23c3e0007b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Honda_prototype_robots_Honda_Collection_Hall.jpg
- **2010**, Tekkoshocon 2010 cosplay 028. cosplay Japan convention photograph. Tekkoshocon at David L. Lawrence Convention Center (2010) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/379cf488-d246-4730-8e3a-687470308e2d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tekkoshocon_2010_cosplay_028.JPG
- **2010**, Tsukiji fish market 20. Tsukiji fish market Tokyo. Tsukiji fish market [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/4e5a4461-4565-4e7a-9cfe-08a02c10ff9a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tsukiji_fish_market_20.jpg
- **2010**, US Navy 101201-N-2858S-731 Military and civilian leaders from the U.S. and Japan open the. sake brewery barrels Japan. ATSUGI, Japan (Dec. 1, 2010) Military and civilian leaders from the U.S. and Japan open the lids of two sake barrels during a reception at the officer's club following the 60th Anniversary ceremony of the commissioning of Naval Air Facility Atsugi. The ceremony was a reen [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b207ccf1-3649-4d4d-b254-6946bb46f5de) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Navy_101201-N-2858S-731_Military_and_civilian_leaders_from_the_U.S._and_Japan_open_the_lids_of_two_sake_barrels_during_a_reception_at_the_office.jpg
- **2010**, Nintendo Headquarters - panoramio. Nintendo headquarters Kyoto building. Nintendo Headquarters in Kyoto (2010). Building design by Yoshimura Architects in 2000. 京都市南区 2006年2月18日に投稿者が撮影 Head Quarters of Nintendo, Minami-ku, Kyoto, Japan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9b13eefb-851c-46a5-a5a1-7d68bcc1ebaa) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nintendo_Headquarters_-_panoramio.jpg
- **2010**, Dance Music Record. record shop Tokyo vinyl Shibuya. DMR Shibuya is dealing NI Maschine in the shop now [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/40308f3e-dbb7-47c5-a99b-339f5816bcea) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dance_Music_Record.jpg
- **2010**, Kusakabe Kimbei - 353 Shinto Procession. Meiji era Japan photograph 1880s. Revelers Carrying a Portable Shrine (Mikoshi) during a Festival Japanese Meiji era about 1890 Photograph, hand-tinted albumen print Image: 19.7 x 26.2 cm (7 3/4 x 10 5/16 in.) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/2e14db38-f797-4939-a22c-f8a926756661) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kusakabe_Kimbei_-_353_Shinto_Procession.jpg
- **2010**, Myokoji karesansui. Japanese zen garden karesansui temple. Myoko-ji in Ukyo-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/7efa315f-59e9-4a67-a128-07ca78e95fd3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Myokoji_karesansui.jpg
- **2010**, - panoramio - ESU. Tōdai-ji. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8840cbe6-afb0-4485-afb9-96502906b2a1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-_panoramio_-_ESU.jpg
- **2010**, Wada-inari-jinja1 torii. torii gate Shinto shrine Japan photograph. Wada Inari-jinja, - located in Shakujii-machi, near Shakujii-kōen Station South exit, Nerima ward, Tokyo, Japan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/7ffff463-4985-491a-89cc-49420cfcafe0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wada-inari-jinja1_torii.jpg
- **2010**, Lee U-Fan museum 李禹煥美術館 香川県香川郡直島町字倉浦 PC192991. Tadao Ando building Japan. Lee Ufan Museum, sculpture courtyard with poured in place concrete walls. Contemporary art museum in Kagawa prefecture, Japan. Collaborative work of Tadao Ando and Lee U-Fan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/11c80c03-abdb-4067-b445-2196ae42b5f6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lee_U-Fan_museum_%E6%9D%8E%E7%A6%B9%E7%85%A5%E7%BE%8E%E8%A1%93%E9%A4%A8_%E9%A6%99%E5%B7%9D%E7%9C%8C%E9%A6%99%E5%B7%9D%E9%83%A1%E7%9B%B4%E5%B3%B6%E7%94%BA%E5%AD%97%E5%80%89%E6%B5%A6_PC192991.jpg
- **2010**, Bizen sake bottle MBA Lyon E554-126. Bizen ware. Sake bottle, perhaps from Bizen. Stoneware, Japan, 17th, 18th centuries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/367762bf-480b-48ca-93cd-af8d9cf7a266) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bizen_sake_bottle_MBA_Lyon_E554-126.jpg
- **2010**, 13 taureau blanc couché. Raku ware. sculpture de taureau couché, émaillé blanc, cuisson raku, craquelures très noires et bien marquées mais irrégulières et absentes sur la partie inférieure [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/414d9213-27d4-433e-b50f-2a52cc02a6a2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:13_taureau_blanc_couch%C3%A9.jpg
- **2010-12-14**, Kyo-Yuzen Dyeing at Chiso, Founded 1555. The long-established Kyoto yuzen house Chiso shows the eleven-stage division of labour behind a single kimono, from design and sketching through paste resist, dyeing, steaming and embroidery. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e8ec1c08-97c2-465a-955d-d0ec7cb7ada1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKG13KDqKj8
### 2011
- **2011-03-11**, The tsunami running backwards up the river in Sendai, 11 March 2011. JNN archive footage of the tsunami reversing up a river in Sendai after the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake of 11 March 2011, which killed 15,899 people nationwide. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9c36cd25-3993-481a-a362-701ed43629e1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlI28yRAyOg
- **2011-05-16**, Chusen: hand stencil dyeing for tenugui and yukata. The chusen process, in which dye is poured through stacked resist-pasted cloth so the pattern dyes through with no reverse side, still used for tenugui and yukata. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/283d87c6-5903-4953-9423-3b3abd58ccc0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ms5mR5gtfg
- **2011**, Nakano Guide. Nakano Broadway Tokyo shopping. Japanese school uniforms and accesories [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/14b061f8-1562-4912-9a0c-3f09e8313dd3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nakano_Guide.jpg
- **2011**, Sega-Dreamcast-Sports-Black-Console. game console hardware photograph Sega. A Sega Dreamcast. This is a special edition, all-black "Sega Sports" release of the console. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/17b14bd9-8e4c-4b9c-8418-144203f0826c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sega-Dreamcast-Sports-Black-Console.jpg
- **2011**, Sega-Master-System-Set. game console hardware photograph Sega. The Sega Master System video game console shown with original "joystick" controller. This is the PNG version with transparent background. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/eef56ed0-d858-4272-b743-7b9d6a6fe051) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sega-Master-System-Set.png
- **2011**, Sega-Mega-Drive-JP-Mk1-Console-Set. game console hardware photograph Sega. A Japanese Sega Mega Drive (Sega Genesis in America) video game console shown with controller. This is the first model version of the console. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b4c56cd4-bc1f-4570-b377-ac2de67ad4a5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sega-Mega-Drive-JP-Mk1-Console-Set.png
- **2011**, Ab Baars 02. Shakuhachi. Ab Baars with Ab Baars Trio at Club W71, Weikersheim. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d9687f85-cb59-42e8-9c86-61a17d2039da) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ab_Baars_02.JPG
- **2011**, KOCIS Korea-Japan Festival 2011 in Tokyo (6259536297), a second example by Korea.net / Korean Culture and Information Service. Japanese idol group performance stage. The two-day festival kicked off on October 1, with an opening ceremony under the slogan “Coexistence and co-prosperity for the 21st century,” followed by K-pop and cover dance contests alongside other cultural events. Various outdoor concerts were organized the [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d3d289c6-a09f-4d47-94a0-5e7097848992) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KOCIS_Korea-Japan_Festival_2011_in_Tokyo_(6259536297).jpg
- **2011**, KOCIS Korea-Japan Festival 2011 in Tokyo (6260064040). Japanese idol group performance stage. The two-day festival kicked off on October 1, with an opening ceremony under the slogan “Coexistence and co-prosperity for the 21st century,” followed by K-pop and cover dance contests alongside other cultural events. Various outdoor concerts were organized the [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1b00d83b-66ba-4389-b5cc-9f373ab1cc30) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KOCIS_Korea-Japan_Festival_2011_in_Tokyo_(6260064040).jpg
- **2011**, Tempyo Biwa Fu. biwa Japanese lute instrument. The "Tempyō Biwa Fu" 天平琵琶譜 \[Tempyō Lute Score\], which is a single-sheet manuscript preserved at the Imperial Storehouse (Shōsōin 正倉院) at Nara in Japan. This is the oldest surviving example of Chinese lute music in Japan, being dated to circa 738. The sheet comprises a [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e734f51d-2ef8-475e-99da-abdd18cc856a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tempyo_Biwa_Fu.jpg
- **2011**, Damage of Tsunami at Matsushima. 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami damage. Damage of Tsunami at Matsushima, Miyagi. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ad00eaa5-ec54-4d80-80e7-f6a2b8aa2907) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Damage_of_Tsunami_at_Matsushima.JPG
- **2011**, Damage of Tsunami at Sendai port 01. 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami damage. The road was closed in the vehicle that had been thrown by the tsunami. (Sendai port) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5eab2a1f-3ab0-4a23-ba16-d8f17c1beb62) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Damage_of_Tsunami_at_Sendai_port_01.JPG
- **2011**, Operation Tomodachi - Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant - pipe flange fitting instruct. Fukushima Daiichi 2011. Ken Holden and Blair Smith, field service mangers with Resource Equipment LTD, teach Japanese workers how to assemble pipe flange fittings at Yokota Air Base, Japan March 25, 2011 for a water pumping station that will be employed at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant d [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/064affdb-43db-4fb6-aa8b-0a1110094899) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Operation_Tomodachi_-_Fukushima_Daiichi_Nuclear_Power_Plant_-_pipe_flange_fitting_instruction_002.jpg
- **2011**, Russo-Japanese War Shunga, Toshikata Mizuno. Russo-Japanese war print 1904. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/40b96f28-3e2c-4bfc-b659-ebe7272544ed) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Russo-Japanese_War_Shunga,_Toshikata_Mizuno.jpg
- **2011**, 110115 Ryoan-ji Kyoto Japan03s3. Ryōan-ji. Ryōan-ji in Kyoto Kyoto prefecture, Japan [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5b98700c-ee03-4b58-ad13-788c803fd580) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:110115_Ryoan-ji_Kyoto_Japan03s3.jpg
- **2011**, 110115 Ryoan-ji Kyoto Japan05s3. Ryōan-ji. Ryōan-ji in Kyoto Kyoto prefecture, Japan [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b24f7816-9df4-42b6-9457-b7fa87038dda) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:110115_Ryoan-ji_Kyoto_Japan05s3.jpg
- **2011**, Ken H. Kaminoge Sta. (5627673886). Tadao Ando building Japan. 17/04/2011 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/4a26f0a7-86b6-4af0-88d9-3721dd95fa87) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ken_H._Kaminoge_Sta._(5627673886).jpg
- **2011**, NES-101-Console-Set. Nintendo Famicom console photograph. A North American Nintendo Entertainment System, model NES-101, shown with redesigned "bone" controller. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/57b0e111-ac70-41e7-b0d9-34a4992b1499) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NES-101-Console-Set.jpg
- **2011**, Sony Walkman WM-B603 1989 Autoreverse. Sony Walkman cassette player object. Sony Walkman WM-B603 portable audio cassette player with Autoreverse functionality. Dolby B and C Noise Reduction built in. Year 1989. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a5e0aafb-6162-4f71-a946-700bd3e4c2c7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sony_Walkman_WM-B603_1989_Autoreverse.jpg
- **2011**, 14 ours polaire. Raku ware. sculpture d’ours polaire, émaillé blanc, cuisson raku, craquelures très noires et bien marquées, présence de petits points noirs dits « pin’holes » [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d4759ac8-821e-45fb-9a79-e21f80cb4233) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:14_ours_polaire.jpg
### 2012
- **2012-04-22**, Hand-Cut Soba by Yoshiharu Mishima, a Contemporary Master Craftsman. Kyoto soba master Yoshiharu Mishima, third-generation head of Ukiya and a nationally recognised Contemporary Master Craftsman, demonstrates hand-cutting technique. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/304e82a2-7222-4fb4-b58d-95d131734285) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyVFzVicJYc
- **2012**, Concours Cosplay - Groupes - P1380427-P1380428. cosplay Japan convention photograph. Photograph taken during the 6th edition of the Mang'Azur festival, an anime, manga and japanese culture convention organized at the 'Palais Neptune' of Toulon in France. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/cc898333-ec95-47a6-9869-9dd54133495f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Concours_Cosplay_-_Groupes_-_P1380427-P1380428.jpg
- **2012**, Shop-made bento box. bento box Japanese meal. Shop-made bento box with sausages, korokke, deep fried chicken, and Hinomaru style rice [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3f5cb7bc-a341-4cae-a5d6-b30a2ec6fb22) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shop-made_bento_box.jpeg
- **2012**, Diver City Tokyo -01. Gundam statue Odaiba Tokyo. Diver City Tokyo. This place is Aomi in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/620e5045-2936-4096-be5a-35def4904fa1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diver_City_Tokyo_-01.jpg
- **2012**, 機動戦士ガンダム - panoramio (2). Gundam statue Odaiba Tokyo. 機動戦士ガンダム [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/044efff8-cb9b-4d36-a169-f4ca7b9054c2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E6%A9%9F%E5%8B%95%E6%88%A6%E5%A3%AB%E3%82%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%A0_-_panoramio_(2).jpg
- **2012**, Syrmaticus mikado MHNT. game arcade game center Japan. Egg of Mikado Pheasant. Collection of Jacques Perrin de Brichambaut. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/97d1fd26-3cf6-41ec-9fc2-ad56a75bd0f4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Syrmaticus_mikado_MHNT.jpg
- **2012**, USMC-120531-M-GU618-023. taiko drum performance Japan. Christopher Kimmey, Mathew C. Perry Elementary School music director, performs his first Taiko drum performance during Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month at Club Iwakuni’s Eagles Nest here May 31, 2012. DoD members playing beside Japanese civilians showed the common [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d0aec213-0c5a-43ff-b35c-cb1927ad2b96) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USMC-120531-M-GU618-023.jpg
- **2012**, SAKURAKO joins in the Bon festival dance. (7785887060). yukata summer kimono festival photograph. My daughter. ＠大通公園での子供盆踊りに参加 （櫻子さん、3歳10ヶ月） [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1aa40b90-c0ca-4e8c-b1a5-9e5ba3d9be93) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SAKURAKO_joins_in_the_Bon_festival_dance._(7785887060).jpg
- **2012**, Nintendo Super Famicom Tietokonemuseo. Nintendo Famicom console photograph. Nintendo Super Famicom game console in Helsinki Computer and game console museum. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/27909876-414a-4367-8038-19dae8fd96a8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nintendo_Super_Famicom_Tietokonemuseo.JPG
- **2012**, St. Mary's Cathedral Tokyo 2012. Kenzo Tange architecture Tokyo. 東京カテドラル聖マリア大聖堂（東京都文京区）、 Tange Kenzo. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/455c2f2a-14d7-413c-b08d-97a87c155bf5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Mary%27s_Cathedral_Tokyo_2012.JPG
- **2012**, Nintendo Famicom Tietokonemuseo. Nintendo Famicom console photograph. Nintendo Famicom game console in Helsinki Computer and game console museum. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/bdede4bc-bcea-4fcb-85ff-655d880eed49) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nintendo_Famicom_Tietokonemuseo.JPG
- **2012-08-08**, Nikkatsu at 100: A Century of Youth. Nikkatsu's official trailer for its centenary retrospective in 2012, surveying a hundred years of the studio that ran from silent cinema through the Roman Porno era. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/7149fbda-de82-4695-a68e-f3daee8be6ed) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JaRrhSRDBE
- **2012-08-22**, Gagaku: the Imperial Household Agency musicians at the Edinburgh Festival. Japan's Ministry of Education film of the Imperial Household Agency's Music Department performing gagaku at the Edinburgh International Festival on 22 August 2012, intercut with their duties at court. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8ab93b62-f4c8-41c7-a483-e0b3a9258d95) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu2gLTO41IQ
### 2013
- **2013**, Cosplay Libre - Mang'Azur 2013 - P1580500. cosplay Japan convention photograph. Photograph taken during the 7th edition of the Mang'Azur festival, an anime, manga and japanese culture convention organized at the 'Palais Neptune' of Toulon in France. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/698050ec-0374-453e-a105-49c995e7b1f1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cosplay_Libre_-_Mang%27Azur_2013_-_P1580500.jpg
- **2013**, Cosplay Libre - Mang'Azur 2013 - P1580522. cosplay Japan convention photograph. Photograph taken during the 7th edition of the Mang'Azur festival, an anime, manga and japanese culture convention organized at the 'Palais Neptune' of Toulon in France. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/673d0bef-3c06-4a9e-9d22-705e039bcfa6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cosplay_Libre_-_Mang%27Azur_2013_-_P1580522.jpg
- **2013**, Ghibli Museum, Mitaka (9406835593). Ghibli Museum Mitaka building. Ghibli Museum, Mitaka [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c77f254e-ac3f-419a-a9d5-8f8f4833e014) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ghibli_Museum,_Mitaka_(9406835593).jpg
- **2013**, Funchal, Madeira from the Curral. Commodore Perry Japan expedition lithograph. Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858) stopped here to refuel and reprovision his ships en route to the Far East. Two men in the foreground are carrying goods in a hammock-like arrangement. A port with ships at anchor is visible in the distance. Pe [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/77f221a8-cd9d-40d6-a259-da3fc057e8fa) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Funchal,_Madeira_from_the_Curral.jpg
- **2013**, Genbaku Dome04-r. Hiroshima Genbaku Dome atomic. Genbaku Dome ( 原爆ドーム ), Hiroshima, Hiroshima prefecture, Japan [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/cdcbf2fe-bf4a-4e55-8965-d8a36287a639) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Genbaku_Dome04-r.JPG
- **2013**, A cat in Fushimi Inari Shrine (11331139384). Fushimi Inari-taisha. I saw a lot of cats in Fushimi Inari Shrine. All of them are so adorable! 伏見稲荷でたくさんの猫ちゃんに出会いました。みんなかわいかった！ \[ Nikon D4, Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 85mm f/1.4G, f/1.4, 1/80sec, ISO8000, Lightroom 5 \] [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1e6c7136-c40c-4676-bdad-50c700639f88) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_cat_in_Fushimi_Inari_Shrine_(11331139384).jpg
- **2013**, Ikebana Japanese flower arrangement 54, Ikebana- いけばな (9976193025). ikebana flower arrangement Japan. Kafu-ryū (?) ikebana arrangement. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1ba2e165-e24a-4baf-ad4c-43b320e0a851) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ikebana_Japanese_flower_arrangement_54,_Ikebana-_%E3%81%84%E3%81%91%E3%81%B0%E3%81%AA_(9976193025).jpg
- **2013**, Bizen-yaki Traditional Pottery Center Bizen Okayama pref Japan06s5. Bizen ware. Bizen-yaki\_Traditional\_Pottery\_Center in Imbe, Bizen, Okayama prefecture, Japan [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/228f066a-0a24-466f-8bcd-b0e473d17aa7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bizen-yaki_Traditional_Pottery_Center_Bizen_Okayama_pref_Japan06s5.jpg
- **2013**, 131123 Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Archaeology Japan25s5. Bizen ware. At Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Archaeology in Harima, Hyogo prefecture, Japan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/2afdb786-f8c8-4141-9f50-886c6da60a95) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:131123_Hyogo_Prefectural_Museum_of_Archaeology_Japan25s5.jpg
- **2013-06-27**, Gagaku performed by the Imperial Household Agency's Music Department. Court gagaku, the orchestral music of the Japanese imperial court and the oldest continuously performed orchestral tradition in the world, played by the Imperial Household Agency ensemble. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/67caa590-a1e6-44c0-b954-58c7ed9326d6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVlff-m3DZg
- **2013-07-01**, Tokyo Story: New Digital Remaster Trailer. Shochiku's trailer for the digitally restored Tokyo Story, released for the 110th anniversary of Ozu's birth in 2013, an example of Japanese studio film restoration. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/47c4d1b6-f673-4ef1-bdee-1a8630e7914c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih7usk8w2NY
- **2013-08-09**, Sachiko Matsuo on the day Nagasaki was destroyed. CTBTO testimony from Sachiko Matsuo, a fifth-grade schoolgirl sheltering in a hut in the hills when the bomb destroyed her home in Nagasaki on 9 August 1945. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d018ea74-8d1f-45b2-811b-df50cecc6944) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aLU-3Z-r-g
- **2013-09-02**, Edomae Anago: A Sushi Documentary. Short documentary following a Ginza sushi chef's preparation of conger eel, one of the defining Edomae toppings requiring long simmering and glazing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/0ba3057c-2601-490f-9329-6761d3035882) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Z_WY-CsDM
- **2013-09-22**, Bunraku: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura, Horikawa Gosho Scene. National Bunraku Theatre performance of the opening act of Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura, with chanter Toyotake Fusadayu and shamisen player Tsuruzawa Seisuke. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/7b1ebbce-2e0e-4fcf-b69f-e32b85551a53) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8K0YfSGfbg
- **2013-10-07**, The 61st Ise Shikinen Sengu: Complete Record. Feature-length record of the 61st rebuilding of Ise Jingu, culminating in the 2013 Sengyo ceremony transferring the deity to the new sanctuary. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/bea58d92-0e25-419b-a26d-e85b9cbbd81d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAvlIyLa2r8
- **2013-12-19**, Astro Boy: The Secret of Astro's Birth. Official Tezuka Productions special edition retelling Astro Boy's origin, the first of a three-part set directed by Osamu Dezaki. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5a1f585e-bea3-4d30-8fec-dcbdca1e8758) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGhXkZgb90Y
### 2014
- **2014-02-27**, Sekishu-banshi: UNESCO-Listed Handmade Paper. Hamada City film on Sekishu-banshi, an Important Intangible Cultural Property and part of the 2014 UNESCO inscription of Japanese handmade washi. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ceb0d324-6939-43aa-a009-5d833f7a1ad4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2V8S0Hewiw
- **2014**, Tsuke-men 001. ramen bowl noodles Japan. 埼玉県さいたま市大宮区にある「つけめん102」のつけめん大盛り [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/173e41a4-6230-401a-a865-808046b91ae8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tsuke-men_001.jpg
- **2014**, FRUiTS magazine issue 203, June 2014. Shoichi Aoki's own upload of an issue of FRUiTS, the Harajuku street-style magazine he founded in 1997 and closed in 2017, saying there were no longer enough well-dressed young people to photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/38b631fd-bf46-48e1-b143-42dd26bb7224) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBkUeVdG0Hc
- **2014**, National Olympic Stadium (14314770816). Tokyo 1964 Olympics stadium. 国立霞ヶ丘陸上競技場(National Olympic Stadium) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9f811c49-63cb-4aaa-88e4-3e2f2568f3b6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:National_Olympic_Stadium_(14314770816).jpg
- **2014**, Ikebana Japanese flower arrangement 62, Ikebana- いけばな (14200390162). ikebana flower arrangement Japan. Saga Go-ryū ikebana arrangements. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6eb54935-30b1-4dee-a111-137dc5f6fc48) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ikebana_Japanese_flower_arrangement_62,_Ikebana-_%E3%81%84%E3%81%91%E3%81%B0%E3%81%AA_(14200390162).jpg
- **2014**, Neuss (DE), Raketenstation Hombroich, Langen Foundation -- 2014 -- 7404. Tadao Ando building Japan. The Langen Foundation building is an architectural gem located on the site of the former NATO missile station Hombroich in Neuss. The futuristic building was designed by the Japanese architect Tadao Andō and blends harmoniously into the surrounding nature. It consists of a [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/469d429d-915e-4911-9490-5ebb5cff967d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neuss_(DE),_Raketenstation_Hombroich,_Langen_Foundation_--_2014_--_7404.jpg
- **2014**, Nostalgic oddities in a shop window on New Briggate, Leeds (12th April 2014). Nintendo Famicom console photograph. Nostalgic oddities in a shop window on New Briggate, Leeds, West Yorkshire. Taken on the afternoon of Saturday the 12th of April 2014. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/64a15c2a-5a8f-4145-9b7a-369feb6ede25) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nostalgic_oddities_in_a_shop_window_on_New_Briggate,_Leeds_(12th_April_2014).JPG
- **2014-11-05**, Harajuku subcultures: gothic Lolita to Yoyogi rockabilly. Refinery29's Style Out There in Harajuku, meeting the wearers behind Tokyo's street tribes, in a district where uniforms govern dress from primary school onwards. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a86b6ebf-034e-4afc-9466-52e4acef0a1f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WblNctc3ys0
- **2014-11-05**, Decora explained, with FRUiTS founder Shoichi Aoki. Short Refinery29 piece on decora, the layered-accessory Harajuku style, featuring designer Kurebayashi and FRUiTS magazine founder Shoichi Aoki. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d39a8262-30b1-4866-a938-86faefb09bc8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZX_5qsxKy8
### 2015
- **2015-01-14**, Police radio from the morning of the sarin attack. TV Asahi report on the release of police radio traffic recorded on 20 March 1995, showing officers struggling to understand what was happening on the Tokyo subway. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/84ad17aa-1c0a-4319-88dc-52a6736415be) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GZP3N2IacM
- **2015-01-18**, NHK: The Unknown World of Comiket. NHK's 2015 documentary on Comic Market, the doujinshi fair that has run in Tokyo since 1975 and remains the centre of Japan's amateur manga economy. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1f5da69e-fe79-4333-ade5-7892bc9fedb4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_YtT7mKvWQ
- **2015-05-31**, Documentary of AKB48: the 2014 general election backstage. Trailer for the NHK Enterprises AKB48 documentary covering the 2014 general election, the fan vote that ranked members, and Yuko Oshima's graduation from the group. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e654f993-b1c6-4904-b183-86787867421d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26gepRdtkKA
- **2015**, Tsukemen bowls. ramen bowl noodles Japan. Tsukemen, which is a kind of ramen where the dipping sauce is in a separate bowl (left) from the noodles (right). The noodles are topped with a piece of seaweed and half of a soft-boiled egg. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5d7d2018-46cb-4eea-94b8-180fc4c6a1d1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tsukemen_bowls.jpg
- **2015**, 20ª Festa do Imigrante (18629759049), example 4 by Paulo Guereta from São Paulo. Taiko. 20ª Festa do Imigrante [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b06f84ca-a229-4538-ad58-d789a6475bc8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20%C2%AA_Festa_do_Imigrante_(18629759049).jpg
- **2015**, 20ª Festa do Imigrante (18815896035), a third example by Paulo Guereta from São Paulo. Taiko. 20ª Festa do Imigrante [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a4fb65b5-7c4e-49ad-a78a-bf893d870155) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20%C2%AA_Festa_do_Imigrante_(18815896035).jpg
- **2015**, 20ª Festa do Imigrante (18815906025). Taiko. 20ª Festa do Imigrante [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/17e401c5-695c-4d2b-b048-16b40fe53766) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20%C2%AA_Festa_do_Imigrante_(18815906025).jpg
- **2015**, 20ª Festa do Imigrante (18818521481), a second example by Paulo Guereta from São Paulo. Taiko. 20ª Festa do Imigrante [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/272bf90a-ee7e-43ca-844b-e051b04faa1f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20%C2%AA_Festa_do_Imigrante_(18818521481).jpg
- **2015**, 20151014 Niwaka Building. Tadao Ando building Japan. Photo of the NIWAKA Building by architect Ando Tadao. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/308ef61e-6a93-4a7e-a27c-27a95b6ba96a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20151014_Niwaka_Building.jpg
- **2015**, Katana blade-IMG 4683-black. Japanese sword katana blade museum. Katana blade [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3dcb84d4-da44-49fb-9b11-428f07ce26e9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Katana_blade-IMG_4683-black.jpg
- **2015**, Katana blade-IMG 4683-white. Japanese sword katana blade museum. Katana blade [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b89db489-f051-42a4-8d22-f44c005ea591) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Katana_blade-IMG_4683-white.jpg
- **2015**, Gamme Washi Tape. Washi. Empilement de Washi Tape de couleurs différentes [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ddae6293-497c-4759-849d-e294018e60e9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gamme_Washi_Tape.jpg
- **2015-07-09**, Japan's colonisation of Korea. Boston College lecture on the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910 and the thirty-five years of colonial rule that followed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/21a9dc28-e0c5-471e-914c-5e1b91234e7d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvlpdJRJ2y8
- **2015-07-24**, Nintendo Developers Aya Kyogoku and Risa Tabata. Nintendo's Aya Kyogoku, director of Animal Crossing, and producer Risa Tabata discuss their careers as women developing games inside Nintendo. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/2f977bb7-3817-47f9-87a8-c14e7b82ce92) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5ZEQEU4Hxs
- **2015-10-19**, BBC Interview: Hajime Isayama on Attack on Titan. A rare interview with the reclusive Hajime Isayama, creator of Attack on Titan, on the dystopia he built and the point at which he nearly gave up. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e0d70d5b-b950-4711-bb3c-5620229386a3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2xyp2jOjeM
### 2016
- **2016-01-22**, Yasuaki Yamashita, five years old in Nagasaki. United Nations testimony from Yasuaki Yamashita, who was five when the bomb fell on Nagasaki on 9 August 1945. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/454d3d50-66b5-48b9-9124-2c09ac5cd0ac) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHKieI3fPnw
- **2016-02-17**, Jiro Dreams of Sushi. Feature documentary on Jiro Ono, the three-Michelin-star sushi master of Sukiyabashi Jiro in Ginza, and his apprentice sons; covers the Edomae technique and Tsukiji sourcing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/862ca090-c5a8-42bf-82db-5a6e21abd47d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9kX_tPQkNA
- **2016-03-06**, A Day With a Tsukiji Intermediate Wholesaler. Chuo City film made in the market's final years, following a nakaoroshi through a working day at Tsukiji, which supplied Tokyo for roughly eighty years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3c480a2b-1102-47a2-9f82-7a0762da5064) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLRz5G7Gi_Y
- **2016-03-16**, MIT Lecture: Kurosawa and Rashomon. David Thorburn's MIT OpenCourseWare lecture on Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950) and the film's place in the emergence of cinema as a modern art form. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/214e72c5-656c-4500-93df-845ab71100a0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B8FySbsUsM
- **2016-05-15**, Inside Yohji Yamamoto's fashion philosophy. Business of Fashion interview with Yamamoto covering the highs and lows of a career of more than forty years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/289dd9be-cb40-4707-8dc9-be2397b0c243) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSJsqYH-hK4
- **2016-05-25**, The Meiji Revolution: Japan in the age of imperialism. Episode of the Pacific Century series on the Meiji Restoration and Japan's transformation into an industrial and imperial power, companion to Mark Borthwick's text. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b46d283d-acea-44be-9823-66ac04c25207) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gURiHVTJX4A
- **2016-05-26**, Reinventing Japan: the occupation and the new constitution. Episode of the Pacific Century series on the postwar American reform of Japan under a hastily drafted constitution, and the relationship that followed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/491e474b-c264-4459-9872-6e5498985b1a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK738CDh21g
- **2016-06-14**, Takeshi Kitano on Teaching Film at Tokyo University of the Arts. Takeshi Kitano, former special professor, speaks for the tenth anniversary of the Graduate School of Film and New Media at Tokyo University of the Arts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a6437aca-efaa-4a28-96f8-1825febf135c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k24mhn0IHrQ
- **2016**, 4 Chome Koyasumachi, Hachiōji-shi, Tōkyō-to 192-0904, Japan - panoramio (71). izakaya restaurant Japan interior. 4 Chome Koyasumachi, Hachiōji-shi, Tōkyō-to 192-0904, Japan [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e9119ac6-2ded-4348-8e88-898cc678e82a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:4_Chome_Koyasumachi,_Hachi%C5%8Dji-shi,_T%C5%8Dky%C5%8D-to_192-0904,_Japan_-_panoramio_(71).jpg
- **2016**, Kyoto's spring (29065010083). sake brewery barrels Japan. 京の春 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/33685683-0cd3-4db9-9c74-4741a9989e66) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kyoto%27s_spring_(29065010083).jpg
- **2016**, 8 одежд. Shakuhachi. Ансамбль санкёку. Яани кирик, Санкт-Петербург, 21.11.2016 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/373f1cda-9df7-4e3a-ac29-2dadc5948716) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:8_%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%B6%D0%B4.jpg
- **2016**, Giappone, elsa tsuba per spada, xvi-xix secolo, 02 dragi tra nubi. Tsuba. Art of Japan in the Indianapolis Museum of Art [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/245b585f-5956-4549-8afa-6cdbd6cb6376) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giappone,_elsa_tsuba_per_spada,_xvi-xix_secolo,_02_dragi_tra_nubi.jpg
- **2016**, Giappone, elsa tsuba per spada, xvi-xix secolo, 04 venauture. Tsuba. Art of Japan in the Indianapolis Museum of Art [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a939633f-7129-4a63-9e8d-3321e8dbfa95) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giappone,_elsa_tsuba_per_spada,_xvi-xix_secolo,_04_venauture.jpg
- **2016**, Giappone, elsa tsuba per spada, xvi-xix secolo, 03 cestino. Tsuba. Art of Japan in the Indianapolis Museum of Art [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b7bf76a7-014f-4019-b5c5-1c9b04f5db3b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giappone,_elsa_tsuba_per_spada,_xvi-xix_secolo,_03_cestino.jpg
- **2016**, Giappone, elsa tsuba per spada, xvi-xix secolo, 05 racemi. Tsuba. Art of Japan in the Indianapolis Museum of Art [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ba8e1da1-d245-4194-a441-a2724c53b288) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giappone,_elsa_tsuba_per_spada,_xvi-xix_secolo,_05_racemi.jpg
- **2016**, Giappone, periodo edo, tsuba (coprimano da elsa di spada), xviii e xix secolo, 01 gru. Tsuba. Art of Japan in the Cincinnati Art Museum [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/eb4b43a9-9345-4eb1-adf3-18d6c3dcc9b0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giappone,_periodo_edo,_tsuba_(coprimano_da_elsa_di_spada),_xviii_e_xix_secolo,_01_gru.jpg
- **2016-09-16**, A Day of the Unsui at Manpukuji. Film of the daily round of the training monks at Obakusan Manpukuji in Uji, head temple of the Obaku Zen school founded by the Chinese monk Ingen in 1661. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5582cd93-3c11-4cca-95f2-ac7f619b1ae2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09Geszc9rZA
- **2016-09-20**, The Meiji Restoration explained by a Stanford historian. Karen Wigen, professor of history at Stanford, on the 1868 Meiji Restoration and the transformation it set in motion. Produced by Stanford's SPICE programme. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/4c20d005-b785-4a74-a01d-e84bea6be8a2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS5qB4yZlIs
- **2016-10-04**, Sennichi Kaihogyo: The Thousand-Day Mountain Circuit. Footage of Endo Mitsunaga, a Dai-Ajari of Tendai Buddhism at Enryakuji on Mount Hiei, who completed the thousand-day walking austerity. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/576af223-dce7-4bf2-9652-7fb5d75940c2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLDLL8g1BHk
- **2016-12-30**, The cultural history of late Tokugawa Japan. Trent Maxey of Amherst College at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on the political, economic and ecological crises that spread disorder across the shogun's realm in the decades before 1868. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f437eef3-3405-4711-80ab-cd73336434b6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5KMdvS9l64
### 2017
- **2017-01-19**, Iwami Kagura: Behind the Votive Dance. Ashita e no Tobira episode on a kagura troupe in Gotsu, Shimane, following young dancers preparing the votive performances for the autumn shrine festivals. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/204d2b74-2069-4d89-a959-6a33520ef67d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9vWTJQ1zCE
- **2017-01-19**, ACTF: Animator Expression and the Potential of Digital Drawing. A lecture from the Animation Creative Technology Forum 2017, a Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs project on what animators gain and lose in the move from paper to digital. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9cf499fc-171f-4531-9929-0ec86081c6ea) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX_R17zOfIY
- **2017-02-09**, Ran in 4K - Restoration Trailer. KADOKAWA's trailer for the 4K restoration of Kurosawa's Ran (1985), the King Lear adaptation that was the most expensive Japanese film of its time. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/62f22415-8de2-4922-b193-07aeb2b0051d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqG3X9ocJ1s
- **2017-02-17**, Little Witch Academia Production Diary. Toho Animation's feature-length production diary following Studio Trigger through the making of the Little Witch Academia TV series. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6158d1ea-3f6a-4362-9b71-b53cd3eeb574) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooaDf1llA7E
- **2017-02-28**, We Are X: the X Japan documentary. Trailer for Stephen Kijak's documentary on X Japan, which won the editing award at Sundance in 2016 and follows the band to Madison Square Garden. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ff71fed4-3d17-4ba4-ba2e-163f331f1c34) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX3BgaPdH28
- **2017-03-13**, Tadao Ando: Samurai Architect. Feature documentary on the self-taught Pritzker Prize architect, tracing his concrete work from the Row House in Sumiyoshi to the Naoshima museums. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/36b2b18d-9feb-441f-a90d-cb5994d90153) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuZR7_rESo0
- **2017-03-14**, The Making of Breath of the Wild: Open Air. Nintendo's developers explain the 'open air' design philosophy behind Breath of the Wild and how it broke with two decades of Zelda structure. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/4cca23a3-b358-4413-b5b2-0a37b51f88e0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwqFNZfSvCA
- **2017-03-14**, The Making of Breath of the Wild: How Development Began. Nintendo's own documentary series on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, with the development team explaining how they rebuilt Zelda from first principles. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f6fbf5f3-5e2a-4347-b711-4caa7c508dcd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4bHdcQnzjU
- **2017-03-26**, Hibari Misora at the Kohaku: the NHK archive. Digest of the NHK archive box marking Hibari Misora's 80th birth anniversary, gathering her surviving Kohaku Uta Gassen appearances; she was the defining voice of postwar Japanese popular song and enka. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/70f0e680-f15b-4eb6-8f53-2dcedd574dea) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gb-clSeE2k
- **2017-05-11**, Shoguns, samurai and the Japanese middle ages. Khan Academy overview of the bakufu system, in which shoguns rather than emperors held power through the medieval period. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/61aa24eb-d6a5-4b48-a499-d775abcc4432) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLHwRTNbcjI
- **2017-05-11**, The Nanjing Massacre, part one. The China History Podcast on the run-up to the massacre that began with the fall of Nanjing in December 1937; the host notes at the outset that the subject is emotive and contested. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c1d0182d-8bc4-489d-88a7-bcccdf1d2575) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk48pSmpOkM
- **2017-06-04**, The Future of the Shokunin: Yakitori and Charcoal Grilling. Conversation between Yoshiteru Ikegawa of Torishiki and Kentaro Nakahara of Sumibiyakiniku Nakahara on carrying Japanese craft cooking abroad and what shokunin means. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9e9223e2-14e1-4e79-afef-33d6845b375c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOm4pn7QZOk
- **2017-06-05**, Rei Kawakubo / Comme des Garcons: Art of the In-Between at the Met. Gallery tour of the Costume Institute's 2017 exhibition on Rei Kawakubo, narrated by curator Andrew Bolton; only the second time the Met devoted its spring show to a living designer. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ccf9cc83-7c53-4612-9937-5dd445191e26) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60yGE64Xzs4
- **2017**, Oshiage Station (219903673). Tokyo skyline Skytree modern. 500px provided description: OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA \[#sky,#city,#downtown,#travel,#tower,#urban,#architecture,#cityscape,#traffic,#building,#skyline,#skyscraper,#apartment,#modern,#panoramic,#office,#horizontal,#expression,#business,#tall\] [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b4eaec31-ba1b-49b3-85ca-08b16691d1cc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oshiage_Station_(219903673).jpeg
- **2017**, Skytree Tower (219903671). Tokyo skyline Skytree modern. 500px provided description: Skytree Tower \[#sky,#city,#travel,#tower,#urban,#architecture,#cityscape,#building,#skyline,#skyscraper,#glass,#modern,#high,#steel,#outdoors,#expression,#business,#contemporary,#tall,#no person\] [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/2854073a-f3bc-4a8e-b3fb-9fefe1d773b0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skytree_Tower_(219903671).jpeg
- **2017**, Sake barrels outside brewery in Takayama, May 2017. sake brewery barrels Japan. Sake barrels outside brewery in Takayama, May 2017 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/06b99fa0-3269-4fb5-969e-e241b2991b45) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sake_barrels_outside_brewery_in_Takayama,_May_2017.jpg
- **2017**, Hiroshi Fujiwara in conversation at Sole DXB. Hiroshi Fujiwara, founder of Fragment Design and a central figure in the Ura-Harajuku streetwear scene, talks to Jeff Staple at Sole DXB 2017. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/038651e7-697d-4be3-ad88-e827f89614c1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOuXzkz74U0
- **2017**, Meiji Jingu (24727530638). Meiji Shrine. Meiji Shrine in Tokyo [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/cfcb36f6-8443-4980-b602-5a11eded9674) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meiji_Jingu_(24727530638).jpg
- **2017**, Flower vase in the shape of a standing drum, Mino ware, Kiseto type, Japan, Azuchi-Momoyam. Mino ware. Flower vase in the shape of a standing drum, Mino ware, Kiseto type, Japan, Azuchi-Momoyama period, 1500s, ceramic. Exhibit in the Tokyo National Museum - Tokyo, Japan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5694f8f1-67c8-40f5-8535-146a1555c769) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flower_vase_in_the_shape_of_a_standing_drum,_Mino_ware,_Kiseto_type,_Japan,_Azuchi-Momoyama_period,_1500s_AD,_ceramic_-_Tokyo_National_Museum_-_Tokyo,_Japan_-_DSC08953.jpg
- **2017-08-04**, On the Anime Floor: The Work of the Animation Director. First episode of a Japanese industry programme profiling the people who sustain anime production, focused on the sakuga kantoku (animation director) role. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/aeac0a3f-9c24-4336-8f84-566006eabc7e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHorkqqlfJM
- **2017-09-13**, Tsugaru Jongara Bushi played by Ki&Ki. The Tsugaru shamisen duo Ki&Ki play Tsugaru Jongara Bushi, the best-known piece in the Tsugaru min'yo repertoire. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d4e8cd50-2dd7-4281-9b27-22cbdd6aa377) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcqO0zkyQRo
- **2017-10-15**, Shoko Kanazawa: Calligraphy as Prayer. Nippon.com profile of the calligrapher with Down syndrome whose solo exhibition at the Ueno Royal Museum marked twelve years since her debut at twenty. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ab08f872-bcf4-469e-ad6e-fed60750e7a9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrb97pDaF0A
- **2017-12-02**, Kurosawa's Message to Young Filmmakers. Rare footage of Akira Kurosawa addressing aspiring directors about how to learn the craft, write, read, and watch, rather than wait for inspiration. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c6e96076-068e-4704-b47d-53bd129b8be0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i17Icu11iKo
### 2018
- **2018-01-16**, A hundred years of school uniforms in Kojima. Okayama Broadcasting on Kojima, where uniform production began in 1918 and where 27 makers now hold about 70 percent of the Japanese market, alongside handwork techniques still done at home. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9c6a0c91-4264-4f3b-a46d-74eeb37d416b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1TZ51qHps8
- **2018-02-14**, Hagi Ware Potter Masahiro Sakakura. Ashita e no Tobira episode on the heir to the Sakakura house, main line of a 360-year Hagi ware tradition ranked first among tea wares in the saying ichi-Raku ni-Hagi san-Karatsu. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/7950a12d-c568-4ff9-99c2-39e6ecc5bd0b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Y5ycgtFdE
- **2018-02-27**, What the Tsukiji-Toyosu Relocation Fight Was Really About. News explainer on the drawn-out move of Tokyo's central wholesale fish market from Tsukiji to Toyosu, with the history of Tsukiji and the role of a central wholesale market. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3b49640d-74e7-4f86-9573-b329a3f5a03e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyjd72m-wSs
- **2018-03-20**, Mifune: The Last Samurai - Trailer. Trailer for the documentary on Toshiro Mifune, with Koji Yakusho and Steven Spielberg speaking about the actor who fronted sixteen Kurosawa films. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/baa7e787-6d0b-45b5-a670-cb0d69826aec) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYEXdeRQobg
- **2018-04-24**, Japan Opens Its Only National Film Archive. Tokyo MX reports on the April 2018 elevation of the Film Center in Kyobashi into the National Film Archive of Japan, holding some 80,000 titles. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d77350cb-4a61-4c2b-b714-1c8245e2be12) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfAY3W7sy3c
- **2018-04-25**, Yohji Yamamoto at the Oxford Union. Full address and question session by Yohji Yamamoto, whose 1981 Paris debut alongside Rei Kawakubo reset what Western fashion thought clothing could be. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ab946524-502f-4c5d-945d-8865cccf99c6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3zNtaeVTNo
- **2018-05-05**, The Impact of Akira. A researched video essay on how Akira's 1988 release changed the international perception of animation and opened Western markets to Japanese anime. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/13e0ecec-bc43-4343-a023-87ada9b5d673) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqVoEpRIaKg
- **2018-05-10**, Koden Sugomori: the hardest of the honkyoku for shakuhachi. Mamino Yorita plays Koden Sugomori, the most technically demanding of the roughly ten pieces called Tsuru no Sugomori, full of secretly transmitted techniques such as suzuru. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c3f8967b-0e5e-4e92-bdf1-f65b24e25bec) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv2je9arNz4
- **2018-05-15**, Liz and the Blue Bird: The Chief Animation Director. Kyoto Animation's making-of series on Naoko Yamada's Liz and the Blue Bird, this instalment on the chief animation director's role in the film's understated character acting. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/cf041efd-d703-4af7-bb10-c24c4292dfee) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwjNEzBsa14
- **2018-05-20**, Arita Porcelain Artist Yuki Inoue. Episode of the Ashita e no Tobira artisan series on a young Arita potter, grandson of Living National Treasure Manji Inoue, working in the white-porcelain tradition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a53d30ad-5f61-4e9b-b5c1-008cc44c6116) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ty6fMdtBqs
- **2018-05-27**, One Hundred Young People Carrying On Japanese Craft. Hundredth-episode special of the Ashita e no Tobira artisan series, surveying a hundred young makers training in Japan's traditional trades. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1c924aa5-8a36-439b-bb7f-bc7cfc055000) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnFtRejmxmc
- **2018-05-29**, Four Seasons of Awa Indigo. Documentary on the annual cycle of Awa indigo cultivation and sukumo composting in Tokushima, the dye base behind Japan Blue. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6991c618-8333-45cc-a592-69e64299297b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cSYZ1OIc64
- **2018-06-06**, Koreeda's Press Conference After the Palme d'Or. Hirokazu Koreeda holds a full press conference at Tokyo's Foreign Correspondents' Club in June 2018 after Shoplifters won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9096473c-3711-4690-bd31-2cf9114e6be1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3A0fZVl9aE
- **2018**, Shoplifters - Official Trailer. Gaga's trailer for Hirokazu Koreeda's Shoplifters, the study of a makeshift Tokyo family that won the Palme d'Or at the 71st Cannes Film Festival. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/da418f3a-04e5-4d1f-aefb-e2644636a18e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMP3wysydDs
- **2018**, Bell-Shakuhachi. Shakuhachi. The Bell Shakuhachi by Josen (Jon Kypros) the world's first jinashi and jimori shakuhachi copies [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/950b4823-9ccc-40ae-8fea-1ff1c24a4df1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bell-Shakuhachi.png
- **2018**, Harajuku Fashion Street Snap (2018-01-08 18.12.30 by Dick Thomas Johnson), a second example by Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo. Harajuku street fashion Tokyo. 原宿ファッションストリートスナップ (2018年01月08日) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/291c071c-2b6e-452f-91b6-c98cc29fa91b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harajuku_Fashion_Street_Snap_(2018-01-08_18.12.30_by_Dick_Thomas_Johnson).jpg
- **2018**, Harajuku Fashion Street Snap (2018-01-08 18.18.47 by Dick Thomas Johnson). Harajuku street fashion Tokyo. 原宿ファッションストリートスナップ (2018年01月08日) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/25fcaf62-8e0d-4d1d-9bf9-cd9f8267a4ad) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harajuku_Fashion_Street_Snap_(2018-01-08_18.18.47_by_Dick_Thomas_Johnson).jpg
- **2018**, Harajuku Fashion Street Snap (2018-01-08 18.29.27 by Dick Thomas Johnson), a third example by Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo. Harajuku street fashion Tokyo. 原宿ファッションストリートスナップ (2018年01月08日) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/56cdb02a-2488-4381-af5b-1318cd71543e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harajuku_Fashion_Street_Snap_(2018-01-08_18.29.27_by_Dick_Thomas_Johnson).jpg
- **2018**, 20181110 Fushimi Inari shrine 11. Fushimi Inari-taisha. A shrine at Fushimi Inari-taisha in Kyoto, Japan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a9e9a86e-03ce-414b-8db4-f77cdbb26770) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20181110_Fushimi_Inari_shrine_11.jpg
- **2018**, Canopy of trees at Meiji Shrine. Meiji Shrine. A view of the forest canopy, looking straight up, in a forested area of Meiji Shrine. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5169fe0d-e350-4238-9fc6-b57743829225) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canopy_of_trees_at_Meiji_Shrine.jpg
- **2018-08-23**, Katsuobushi at a Century-Old Dashi House. Yamaki, a dried-bonito and dashi maker of over a hundred years, shows the making of katsuobushi from raw skipjack to finished block. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/db893708-5280-418b-8a07-f13e1bbdc9e2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM6LA3LSvMI
- **2018-10-29**, Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Koji Yakusho on Cure. Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa and actor Koji Yakusho take questions on Cure (1997) at the 31st Tokyo International Film Festival, a founding text of modern Japanese psychological horror. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/72538dce-f333-4ce0-947f-8019f912c398) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hIbgSppWuI
- **2018-10-30**, How to Look at Ikebana: The Shoka Style. Ikenobo's own guide to reading a shoka arrangement, the school's most pared-back form, described as the beauty of omission. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9354900d-b129-4138-afd6-41980fdacc35) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7StgL6bVoxg
- **2018-11-08**, PBS: the history of the 'comfort women'. PBS POV segment accompanying the documentary The Apology, citing United Nations researchers' estimate of 200,000 to 400,000 women and girls forced into sexual slavery between 1931 and 1945. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6a63c6a1-374d-403c-b0e3-195e4983cf29) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4SSC4YBWnA
- **2018-12-19**, Sakai Forged Blades: Blacksmith Yusuke Okugami. Ashita e no Tobira episode on a young Sakai blacksmith; the craft traces to fifth-century tomb building and the Edo shogunate's Sakai Kiwame quality mark. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1e3133fa-e4d2-45a8-b964-45889112f7c7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0cb-tTSVX4
### 2019
- **2019-01-18**, How Mew Was Hidden in Pokémon Red and Green. Game Freak's Shigeki Morimoto, who created Mew, explains how the mythical Pokémon came to be secretly inserted into the 1996 originals and became a schoolyard legend. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8e8b175c-25a7-49ec-9d97-416c89f5bf89) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTjUKpNjW-g
- **2019-01-19**, Twenty-five years of Merzbow's Venereology. Short documentary on Venereology, the 1994 record by Masami Akita's Merzbow project that carried Japanese harsh noise to Western audiences. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/dd772143-db19-4007-9b72-4a7b25319538) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8bqR5rZZ68
- **2019-02-07**, Fujii Kaze covers Plastic Love, 2019. An early home recording by Fujii Kaze, then unsigned, covering Mariya Takeuchi's Plastic Love; he went on to become one of Japan's biggest global crossover acts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/dfde84b8-d354-4b77-8b43-a76758e21823) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgcsNqlM2Co
- **2019-02-26**, How Comme des Garcons shocked the Paris catwalk. Asian Art Museum on the early 1980s, when Japanese avant-garde designers disrupted Paris haute couture with minimal, deconstructed clothing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9ad53e93-a81f-4817-be33-35bc0782bbed) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE2ysDb8zFU
- **2019-03-24**, Sakai Forged Blades and the Professionals Behind Them. Sakai Film Office documentary on the city's 600-year blade industry, which supplies roughly 90 percent of the knives used by Japanese professional chefs, with interviews at each production stage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f3ca1f90-f3e3-4ab8-9524-ce7b7a49e7f7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_ZSgwgZjQw
- **2019-05-10**, Junichi Masuda Looks Back on 30 Years of Game Freak. Game Freak's 30th-anniversary series opens with composer and director Junichi Masuda revisiting Quinty, the studio's first game, before Pokémon. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/98afd3e7-cbf8-4b0d-9eaa-8a38a6434a5d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkI_C-s5vpU
- **2019**, Takaryu Tokyo Ramen booth 20190714a. Tokyo Game Show expo. ​2019夏日電玩展，鷹流東京拉麵攤位。 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/836beb19-2339-42bc-b834-5318e818dcfe) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Takaryu_Tokyo_Ramen_booth_20190714a.jpg
- **2019**, Chinese-Japanese (C&J) Life style in Dalian series - 2nd Sashimi with Japanese Dancer Doll. sushi sashimi Japanese dish photograph. So many words prepared to describe this picture... but now, my energy and time left few... Sorry, it's much longer than you think... For successfully submiting through phone, I can only say - it's Cishen (Fresh Cuts or Sashami) in Chinese Japanese languages - [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9c215268-5e20-41fe-9209-0bc3b1fc4016) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese-Japanese_(C%26J)_Life_style_in_Dalian_series_-_2nd_Sashimi_with_Japanese_Dancer_Dolls.jpg
- **2019**, Bamboo koma. Shamisen. Bridge (koma) of a shamisen made in bamboo [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8e805516-a453-4e73-b682-c2cd0a7147f3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bamboo_koma.jpg
- **2019**, Fuji-no-Ma in the Kyoto State Guest House 03. gagaku court music performance. Elegant Japanese Cultural Traditions Take the Stage - The space hosts traditional dance, noh, koto (a type of stringed instrument), and gagaku (court music) performances, offering distinguished visitors an experience of Japanese cultural traditions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a4ec89d2-9882-420d-b245-a7a5d87c31ce) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fuji-no-Ma_in_the_Kyoto_State_Guest_House_03.jpg
- **2019**, Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima, South view 20190417 1. Hiroshima Genbaku Dome atomic. A south view of the Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/da1688b2-eb41-48c4-b43a-3113844705dc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atomic_Bomb_Dome,_Hiroshima,_South_view_20190417_1.jpg
- **2019**, Japan's first Shinkansen bullet train at the Kyoto Railway museum (48743495656). Shinkansen 0 series bullet train 1964. One of the first sights that greets you as you enter the exhibition area of the Kyoto Railway Museum in Kyoto, Japan is a driving trailer of Japan's first Shinkansen bullet train. The car is from the 0 series- the first Shinkansen trains which entered service i [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/7bd2d079-3ae8-4f2c-83d6-841483350374) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Japan%27s_first_Shinkansen_bullet_train_at_the_Kyoto_Railway_museum_(48743495656).jpg
- **2019**, Pretty plain-jane interiors of Japan's first Shinkansen bullet train (48743492536). Shinkansen 0 series bullet train 1964. Pretty plain-jane interiors of Japan's first Shinkansen bullet train. I have in fact traveled here to Kyoto from Tokyo by Shinkansen and I was amazed how puny the seats of the original Shinkansen look, as seen here. A picture of the business end of this Shinkan [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/be452cd3-2d2a-4257-8b20-0425e471926e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pretty_plain-jane_interiors_of_Japan%27s_first_Shinkansen_bullet_train_(48743492536).jpg
- **2019**, Giappone, collezione di tsuba, paramano di impugnature per spada, xvii-xix secolo 01. Tsuba. Art of Japan in the Museo civico d'arte siamese Stefano Cardu [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/34c546e9-758d-4d6c-89b1-a929fdbb106c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giappone,_collezione_di_tsuba,_paramano_di_impugnature_per_spada,_xvii-xix_secolo_01.jpg
- **2019**, Generation 80 Experience 20190108 03. Sony Walkman TPS-L2 object. Walkman à cassette Sony à l'exposition Génération 80 Experience, Liège (Belgique) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/dcb5b82d-a823-4790-9272-1ba7e760275b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Generation_80_Experience_20190108_03.jpg
- **2019-06-16**, Kyoto Animation at Work: The Chief Animation Director. Kyoto Animation's own channel shows the chief animation director drawing Violet Evergarden, a rare look at the studio's in-house craft. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/71c08020-46dc-4db9-b41c-b8ccbd2d9307) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAsLPqVvLsQ
- **2019-06-19**, Kyoto Animation's Background Painters at Work. Kyoto Animation films its background staff constructing the dense European streets and architecture of Violet Evergarden. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/bd143ada-b604-4b8e-8070-1c70154cb079) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MNQU01P2Rc
- **2019-06-26**, The Eye of Toyosu. Short film on mekiki, the inherited skill of judging fish quality at the world's largest wholesale market, where some 500 species arrive for Tokyo's restaurants. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9f0805ac-c5be-45b4-80a9-cdc273ddf8a8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-PKiigQ_1A
- **2019-08-08**, Misoma Hajime Sai: Felling the Sacred Trees in Kiso. Record of the 2005 Misoma Hajime Sai at Agematsu, the formal Shinto rite in which the cypress for Ise's inner sanctuary vessels is felled in the Kiso forest. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/edf141e6-7471-4377-9471-484638ae864b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjgGfSBifLY
- **2019-09-01**, Living in Tradition: Woodblock Printer Hidekatsu Kawashima. Arakawa City documentary on a master woodblock printer, part of a series recording the surviving craft trades of the ward. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b8e74188-0c2a-4611-9c4d-9d842cce660f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk6vSIDTBfY
- **2019-11-27**, Hibari Misora's voice reconstructed by AI for NHK. Nippon Columbia release of 'Arekara', an NHK Special project that used AI to synthesise Hibari Misora's voice thirty years after her death; the broadcast prompted public debate about the ethics of it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/bdfc97a5-4133-4c48-883b-abddfeb0706b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNDWvN5x4Sc
- **2019-12-10**, Restoring Tora-san in 4K. Shochiku shows before-and-after comparison footage from the 4K digital restoration of the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series, the 48-film Tora-san run that anchored the studio for decades. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/22ead8e1-55d1-443d-985d-86cc131ccf98) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWvZDNTS81k
- **2019-12-20**, Takeo Shimura of Tempura Narise, Shizuoka. Profile of the tempura chef who built his restaurant around Suruga Bay seafood and Shizuoka produce, opened in 2007 and now a destination for food critics. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e4cc4f1b-7283-40b1-977d-86a8431f4820) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBmmyZzXfcs
### 2020
- **2020-02-08**, Rebuild of Evangelion: Digest by Hideaki Anno. Studio Khara's official recap of the Rebuild of Evangelion films, edited by Hideaki Anno himself ahead of the final instalment. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5677c76c-49b5-4375-bfc8-18ab558cd5a9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJoBLIYZo54
- **2020-02-09**, Taito's Game Director on Space Invaders. TV Tokyo interviews Taito game director Yuichi Toyama about Space Invaders (1978), the arcade game that triggered Japan's first video-game boom. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/065102e3-09c8-41e5-b5bf-db0a75d39be8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r81PQkyCOqY
- **2020-02-26**, Kenji Mizoguchi and Kinuyo Tanaka. NHK arts lecture by film critic Yuichiro Nishimura on Kenji Mizoguchi and actress Kinuyo Tanaka, who joined Shochiku at fifteen and starred in Japan's first talkie. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/484b1a39-3dbe-496f-bbd0-8567f079533c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vNo_ySCejA
- **2020-02-27**, Makoto Shinkai Lecture: The Origin of Weathering With You. Toho Animation releases part of Shinkai's own lecture on where Weathering With You began, drawing on his production diary to show how the story took shape. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/aa7683af-0f2d-4a66-82e5-78c7d89d9d1f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIKhS9BBBU4
- **2020-03-20**, The Aum Shinrikyo subway sarin attack, 25 years on. TV Asahi documentary marking 25 years since the 20 March 1995 sarin attack on the Tokyo subway, with testimony from former senior Aum figure Fumihiro Joyu on how a yoga school became a killing cult. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/503c5fd5-d7d7-4bdd-a04a-3f6063d38765) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8pQ66czmes
- **2020-04-09**, Making Weathering With You: Animation and Music. Excerpt from the making-of documentary on Weathering With You, following the animation and music production of Japan's highest-grossing film of 2019. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/99d07ef6-f294-4330-8f9c-19d8d053ba2d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KQej6tYTNo
- **2020-05-01**, Blossom and Tourism in Edo-Period Shinagawa. Shinagawa History Museum curator presents an exhibition on Edo-period hanami, showing that Gotenyama's cherries were a mixed planting timed for staggered bloom, unlike today's uniform Somei-Yoshino. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/4ae64e44-734d-4fd8-b318-ebee5231d861) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9IhxvlQIHU
- **2020-05-09**, Born a Brewer's Daughter: Aoki Shuzo and the Young Sake Makers. JNN documentary on Chisa Aoki of Aoki Shuzo, a 190-year-old Ibaraki brewery whose Gokeiji sake won top honours at the International Wine Challenge. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/120f2a5e-2469-4a95-9075-37ff6edd4571) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxKTHfbJIPU
- **2020-05-25**, Maki-e: Kazumi Murose and Beauty Across Time. Pola Foundation film on Living National Treasure Kazumi Murose making a maki-e and mother-of-pearl box, showing the gold powder being scattered onto wet lacquer in close detail. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/853942e5-89ea-4485-acd2-e726c3e73bb3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO5WWP8Y7aQ
- **2020**, Tokyo Anime Factory booth 20200801a. AnimeJapan exhibition Tokyo. ​2020台北國際ACG博覽會，日本二手動漫商品店 TAF動漫精品專賣店 攤位。 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b556077b-870a-4d04-8bd7-ff24d48d0930) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tokyo_Anime_Factory_booth_20200801a.jpg
- **2020**, Fujii Kaze: Shinunoga E-Wa. Fujii Kaze performs Shinunoga E-Wa, from his 2020 debut album Help Ever Hurt Never; the song became a global hit years later through short-form video. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/fde1ccaa-f23e-46aa-84a6-567c1397c1bd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dawrQnvwMTY
- **2020**, Katsura Imperial Villa Aerial Photograph 20200819. Katsura Imperial Villa. 桂離宮の空中写真。国土地理院空中写真CKK7415-C8B-4の一部を切り取り加工。 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c4c9dfd1-218a-48b1-97a1-f041409726b0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Katsura_Imperial_Villa_Aerial_Photograph_20200819.jpg
- **2020-06-25**, Anatomy of Ju-On: Takashi Shimizu's Four Films. A long-form Japanese breakdown of Takashi Shimizu's Ju-On series, from its V-cinema origins to the theatrical films that carried J-horror to Hollywood remakes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/548c06ac-834e-4e4e-a085-bc577ca71ae1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5apSESBeTc
- **2020-07-01**, Naoko Takeuchi on Sailor Moon. A period laserdisc-bonus interview with Naoko Takeuchi, creator of Sailor Moon, on the manga and the Toei Animation series that defined the magical-girl genre worldwide. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8496d294-7f15-4526-acab-cf1f9e63defb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zi0H7g9_kk
- **2020-07-10**, An American bomber crewman on the Tokyo raid. National WWII Museum oral history in which Richard Baile of the 9th Bomb Group discusses the 9 March 1945 firebombing of Tokyo and how he regards it now. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5c182d63-9300-4c4c-a0d6-c7cabc4c67dc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdtuitS59vw
- **2020-08-18**, Bunraku: The Fire Tower Scene from Date Musume Koi no Higanoko. Subtitled bunraku performance of the Yaoya Oshichi story, in which Oshichi climbs the fire tower knowing it means execution; filmed without an audience. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3a0bdd31-6a52-4059-b7a1-d4b87fc6e065) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra9oq9nWf44
- **2020-08-18**, Bunraku: The Sake Shop Scene from Hadesugata Onna Maiginu. Subtitled bunraku performance filmed without an audience during the pandemic, featuring the celebrated Osono no Kudoki lament; bunraku is UNESCO-listed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/54c1ecef-8a54-489b-bd5d-c8aaf1217a35) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPk23wCdl2E
- **2020-08-19**, Toshio Suzuki Speaks - Ghibli Museum Video Diary. The Ghibli Museum in Mitaka films producer Toshio Suzuki during the museum's pandemic closure, opening a series of interviews about how Ghibli works. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3e967c0f-33e6-430b-8457-7ae7dae45340) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUwUYzZClRE
- **2020-08-22**, The Hiroshima bombing was illustrated with the wrong footage for decades. DW investigation finding that news organisations worldwide had for years shown film of a different explosion when depicting the Enola Gay's 1945 drop on Hiroshima. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/cc6c97b3-f668-4593-9cd3-c11bec694bc2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGpseJ39keA
- **2020-08-27**, Judging Tuna by the Five Senses: Two Toyosu Nakaoroshi. Conversation between two Toyosu tuna intermediate wholesalers on how they assess frozen tuna, read rival bidders and supply restaurants. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9726245f-bc6e-47d3-9fb5-4341f0bded9e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22MTI4mqCU4
- **2020-09-14**, GDC: Unearthing and Preserving Japanese Game History. Brandon Sheffield's 2020 GDC talk on the archaeology of Japanese game preservation and the work of recovering source material for retro compilations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1347e45a-6a83-4074-a508-b6b3a1783eae) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB1ocMxccCc
- **2020-10-05**, Kenzo: an archival designer profile. Videofashion's archive profile of Kenzo Takada, published after his death, on the colour and exoticism he brought into Paris ready-to-wear. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/0e40bf55-c5ff-4abd-b169-b8e855fc9548) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEk-Sdsg1Ik
- **2020-10-05**, Kenzo Takada dies at 81. South China Morning Post obituary for Kenzo Takada, who died of Covid-19 in Paris on 4 October 2020; he was the first Japanese designer to gain real standing in Paris fashion. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/65b63434-1d79-4ef9-acac-ca41ba34a186) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HI87z74XqE
- **2020-10-17**, Isao Takahata on Grave of the Fireflies. A full interview with director Isao Takahata about Grave of the Fireflies, his 1988 adaptation of Akiyuki Nosaka's semi-autobiographical story of the Kobe firebombing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5ae8eba8-3329-4661-b0bf-96d8e6c88717) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_gjq3xxN2U
- **2020-10-23**, Ado: Usseewa (2020). Ado's major-label debut, released on her last day as a 17-year-old in October 2020; written by syudou and drawn from the Vocaloid producer scene that fed a generation of Japanese pop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5e274f5e-296c-47b5-9fe7-444fb4f36120) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp3b-RXtz4w
- **2020-10-25**, Kodo's women drummers play Chonlima at speed. Kodo's female members perform Roetsu Tosha's taiko classic Chonlima, from the ensemble's own This is Kodo series. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d295ba36-cd94-467b-a813-85b565d2c933) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjVxCNAEhg8
- **2020-10-26**, Mugen Train Hits 10 Billion Yen in Ten Days. TV Tokyo reports Demon Slayer: Mugen Train reaching 10.7 billion yen ten days after opening, the fastest in Japanese history, against Spirited Away's 25 days. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d21a0b0f-fee8-4687-b973-04e813c7e60b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq8izt53Xjs
- **2020-11-06**, TIFF Master Class: The Landscapes Anime Draws. A Tokyo International Film Festival master class on anime background art, how light, atmosphere and increasingly real photographed locations are turned into painted space. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/cda13ae1-15cd-44e9-8d6c-5828733ca888) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeSQUgUjTB4
- **2020-11-13**, Ikebana: Making Life Live, with Ikenobo Senko. Extended master class with the next iemoto of Ikenobo, the school that founded ikebana, on the philosophy of arranging living material. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d563cfef-72c5-40d0-aa64-ff6c3decdc06) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvHnNAw3yW0
- **2020-11-25**, Tatsuro Yamashita: Sobo and Odoro yo, Fish. First-ever music videos for two Tatsuro Yamashita songs, made in 2020 for the remastered reissues of Pocket Music and Boku no Naka no Shonen, directed by Morikatsu with Yuriko Ishida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6ab8d428-18e3-4586-b852-3c69e8ed00e7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWWmEmyXsAQ
- **2020-12-01**, Kodo: Zoku. The Kodo taiko ensemble, based on Sado Island, performs 'Zoku' composed by Leonard Eto, from their 40th anniversary production Tsuzumi. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/665a93cb-d2f9-4a0e-9fb1-76fa893d07db) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heglVG83scA
- **2020-12-10**, Beyond the Star: Tokyo's New Three-Star Restaurants. Michelin's own film on the two Tokyo restaurants promoted to three stars in the 2021 guide, including the phone call from Paris and what the chefs aim for next. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e59c08ac-a149-4c40-ac9e-58d408adecd6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl39Ns3zCCY
- **2020-12-24**, Toshihiro Nagoshi on Sega Leaving the Hardware Business. Sega's Toshihiro Nagoshi, then president of subsidiary Amusement Vision, speaks about the decision to discontinue the Dreamcast and exit console manufacturing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9f48c482-6283-42e9-b4ad-23e7f96eb59b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8IqZMeebUU
- **2020-12-27**, Inside Netflix's Anime Push in Tokyo. TV Asahi gains rare access to Netflix's Minami-Aoyama anime hub as Japanese titles hold steady positions in the service's global top ten. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/099ce7d7-a7d8-485d-adc4-bf26517a5a13) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAdUqaX5C-Y
- **2020-12-28**, Mugen Train Passes Spirited Away as Japan's Biggest Film. TBS reports Demon Slayer: Mugen Train exceeding 32.4 billion yen, overtaking Spirited Away as the highest-grossing film ever released in Japan roughly two and a half months after opening. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/21c7956b-05c8-4f6a-befc-b5a7e70f22fd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkvd-kJ1QsE
### 2021
- **2021-01-03**, A former jazz kissa owner on the listening bars of the 1970s. First-hand account from a man who ran a jazz kissa in the 1970s, describing the culture of silent, record-focused listening rooms. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e81dc9f8-4046-467c-9f65-b5c19dccd07a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0w2RpejD4c
- **2021-01-05**, The Hello! Project chronology, through Morning Musume. Release-by-release history of Hello! Project seen through its flagship group Morning Musume, the rotating-membership model that shaped Japanese idol production. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5098521f-1505-4ca7-8834-16bd2c41b0dc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs8HqE3K3IU
- **2021-01-13**, YOASOBI: Monster (2021). YOASOBI's Kaibutsu, the opening theme of the second season of the anime Beastars, released January 2021 as part of the novel-into-song format the duo built their career on. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/fa38c5e0-9205-41e6-9e25-c07c38438772) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy90tA3TT1c
- **2021-01-15**, Stone-Milled Matcha from a Uji Tea Farm. Obubu Tea, a Kyoto tea farm, tours a stone-mill matcha factory and compares three matcha cultivars, with instruction on whisking. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3c0136c7-0e76-4223-86e1-071062967be5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66AB-VblWCc
- **2021-02-08**, Mingei: Forms of Everyday Beauty. Opening talk for a Muji mingei exhibition between designer Naoto Fukasawa, Japan Folk Crafts Museum director Takashi Sugiyama and Katsushi Onishi. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/7a8748d5-9853-4830-abe5-5369314edea5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq2T25Ct9sk
- **2021-02-18**, The history of A Bathing Ape. How Nigo built BAPE out of the Ura-Harajuku scene, alongside Hiroshi Fujiwara of Fragment and Jun Takahashi of Undercover, from the Nowhere store onwards. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c0cd32b6-38e4-4dbe-ac18-759ac5607c3e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xZ6XbXgb9Q
- **2021-02-22**, Koji Making for Daiginjo at Nadagiku Brewery. The toji of Nadagiku Shuzo in Himeji opens up the koji-making room, the most closely guarded stage of premium daiginjo sake brewing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f056a337-9934-4a57-9d0d-758e07ffcb25) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoqGs9RT144
- **2021-02-26**, YOASOBI: Gunjo, live one-take on THE FIRST TAKE. YOASOBI's Ayase and ikura perform Gunjo in a single take with a choir, on the channel that became a defining showcase for Japanese pop in the 2020s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5b19d62e-a393-4afe-bebd-5d980ebff563) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyUTYwZe_l4
- **2021-02-28**, Noh: Matsukaze. Full Tessen-kai performance of the Noh play Matsukaze at the Hosho Noh Theatre, with Takao Nishimura as the ghost of Matsukaze. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/29896349-52f9-4e9e-8bbf-389b8de07fae) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7KW11yFxok
- **2021-03-04**, Polygon Pictures: Creativity and Business in Digital Animation. Polygon Pictures president Shuzo Shiota gives the IMART 2021 keynote on running one of Japan's oldest digital animation studios, maker of Transformers Prime and Star Wars: The Clone Wars. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/0af0c7df-8ed2-43f2-8c67-c2ea03f9fb1a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f8_w12D3LQ
- **2021-03-06**, Living National Treasure: Kabuki Chanter Aoidayu Takemoto. Ota City documentary on Aoidayu Takemoto, a Living National Treasure in kabuki takemoto narrative music, part of a series on holders of Important Intangible Cultural Property status. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5f9e6801-9977-4b02-8d6c-ba4768de5c60) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLEBi2-ON7M
- **2021-03-11**, Tsumugi Weaving: Living National Treasure Ryoko Murakami. Japan Kogei Association film on Ryoko Murakami, holder of Important Intangible Cultural Property status for tsumugi silk weaving, who studied under Fukumi Shimura. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c79f17ba-28a4-4dee-bcff-987a806c1197) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNHIVQQ-_Ls
- **2021-03-13**, Ukiyo-e Block Carver Torao Ishii. Taito City museum interview with a woodblock carver who cut the reproduction blocks for Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3de8abd2-a7c2-4273-ac8d-af43a8dc029c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmYJVkdDwHA
- **2021-03-13**, BBC: Fukushima, the nuclear disaster that shook the world. BBC News on the 11 March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and reactor meltdown that emptied towns in Fukushima Prefecture, with government cleanup estimates approaching 200 billion dollars. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/cdfc8f96-113a-4415-87bc-c89e19243456) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUBxtTEOiPI
- **2021-03-16**, FRONTLINE: inside Japan's nuclear meltdown. PBS FRONTLINE documentary, made in 2012, on the crisis inside the Fukushima Daiichi plant after the earthquake and tsunami of 11 March 2011. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e300c6a7-6f30-4e4d-8909-23af2904fc1e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRKScRgsUaE
- **2021-03-17**, Sashimono Joinery in Tenths of a Millimetre: Teiji Miyamoto. Film on Living National Treasure Teiji Miyamoto, whose plane takes shavings under 0.1mm thick, working zelkova and finishing with wiped urushi lacquer. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/322a93e3-d832-4e9c-8ab2-55869317ec84) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibgZa4gxHJw
- **2021-03-20**, Ken Kutaragi, Father of the PlayStation, in Conversation. Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada interviews Ken Kutaragi, the Sony engineer who pushed the PlayStation into existence against internal opposition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/13a0d35b-5d52-4fd2-8ea1-47b9d1eaf080) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUlZRzvD-vg
- **2021-03-25**, Inside Kazuhiro Fujita's Studio. Weekly Shonen Sunday's channel tours the working studio of mangaka Kazuhiro Fujita, filming his tools and desk while he is mid-serialisation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c74544a3-cb38-4a02-8731-c58126181c8f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZnPrpa-njM
- **2021-03-28**, Ichikotsu: a duet for koto and shakuhachi by Hozan Yamamoto. Performance of Hozan Yamamoto's Ichikotsu, named after the first note of the Japanese twelve-pitch scale, for koto and shakuhachi. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/caf69d86-2340-4b80-ad0a-819a30a6a0fb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxGjvDXmP1M
- **2021-04-14**, Bunraku Puppet Theatre at Rohm Theatre Kyoto. Digest of a bunraku programme staged for the theatre's fifth anniversary, presenting Kinoshita Kage Hazama Kassen and Tsuma Moyo Yumeji no Kadomatsu. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5335972d-c24b-4ce7-b4f7-d0d57d0616b1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceEXV5LO5sg
- **2021-04-19**, How Street Fighter II Was Balanced: The Location Test. Yoshiki Okamoto explains the Japanese location-test process behind Street Fighter II, how arcade earnings per day and player behaviour drove balance changes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e5a09ed1-934f-4798-a1f7-c319a273986b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGUixcneJP8
- **2021-04-24**, Hibakusha testimony: Takashi Shimohara, Hiroshima Second Middle School. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum testimony describing the moment of the blast inside his school building and the scene at Miyuki Bridge afterwards. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/84916290-7e51-4c46-a97b-27f3ee9f6a8d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M7hQFypuPY
- **2021-04-30**, The Aomori Nebuta Festival in the 1960s and 1970s. Rediscovered amateur footage showing older Nebuta float-running formations and construction methods, broadcast by ATV Aomori with commentary from Nebuta makers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/27273bf4-eed9-4d8b-93d1-7f7d8e1e7ffc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgj_q5bWFuc
- **2021-05-07**, An Invitation to Chanoyu: Rikyu's Tea. Omotesenke Kitayama Kaikan film using objects from a special exhibition to explain the tea practice established by Sen no Rikyu over 400 years ago. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3c8abc08-43fe-4088-8e31-2518d140824f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gj-V-YzGZo
- **2021-05-09**, Gunpei Yokoi and 'Lateral Thinking With Withered Technology'. A profile of Gunpei Yokoi, the Nintendo R&D head behind the Game & Watch, Game Boy and Virtual Boy, and the design philosophy of using cheap mature components in new ways. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d05df179-d305-4179-b491-15be7b502a9a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMcpDcXxJhU
- **2021-05-21**, Fujii Kaze: Kirari. Official video for Kirari, released May 2021, the single that broke Fujii Kaze beyond Japan and led to his Coachella and stadium bookings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/15ff57bc-9d79-44ba-8073-e8d6e1eb5f7f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcLLpZBWsck
- **2021-05-29**, The high-growth era: Ikeda's income doubling plan. Yamakawa Shuppansha teaching film on Japan's rapid postwar growth, from Korean War procurement through the Ikeda cabinet's 1960 income doubling plan and the heavy-industry buildout. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/54d0cb3d-300b-4f8c-b9eb-d740e1e7d004) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oquA9eN69gs
- **2021-06-13**, Developing the Ultimate Cup Noodle. Behind-the-scenes account of how a ramen shop's recipe is translated into an instant cup-noodle product, tracing the industrial side of Japanese ramen. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e153626a-616d-43bd-857e-1591cb242ad7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGVgXfktaIk
- **2021**, Kongoji Zen Temple Togen no Niwa. Japanese zen garden karesansui temple. Karesansui of Kongoji Zen Temple "Togen no Niwa" [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5a4268aa-cce4-465d-8222-f8f68f79f1df) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kongoji_Zen_Temple_Togen_no_Niwa.jpg
- **2021**, Authentic Sushi set by MUSUBI KILN - 51501989298. Mino ware. musubikiln.com/pages/japanese-table-setting-ideas [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e5102e19-b32c-40a2-abc0-4ecd57ba80cf) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Authentic_Sushi_set_by_MUSUBI_KILN_-_51501989298.jpg
- **2021-06-16**, What Kenzo Tange Left Behind. TV Asahi interview with Noritaka Tange on his father Kenzo Tange, designer of the Yoyogi National Gymnasium for the 1964 Olympics, and on designing the 2020 aquatics venue. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ceef0c5f-2ce7-43e4-a66a-adee1616f778) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLKSKXwyigc
- **2021-06-29**, Consumer Agency Orders Square Enix Over Gacha Disclosure. Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency issues an administrative order against Square Enix and gumi for misleading representation in the paid gacha of FFBE War of the Visions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c5ba3943-183f-4528-a962-17cbaf4166c8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPzigwv8nLA
- **2021-07-15**, JAniCA Digital Key Animation Workshop with Nippon Animation. The Japan Animation Creators Association runs a workshop with Nippon Animation on digital key animation and animation-director workflow in Clip Studio Paint, documenting the industry's shift from paper to digital. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9650a263-d7e6-41b3-8483-8f3629ad6588) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT7Xz2E_ZHg
- **2021-07-20**, A 17-Year-Old Maiko's First Stage at the Kamogawa Odori. Yomiuri TV documentary following Ichikoto, a novice maiko in Pontocho, through ten months of training and pandemic cancellations to her debut in the 150-year-old Kamogawa Odori. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3f88635f-b38d-4c53-80f5-624dc84b9cfa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K5kRYLYBew
- **2021-07-20**, Yohji Yamamoto in his Tokyo studio, V&A interview. Victoria and Albert Museum film shot in Yamamoto's Tokyo studio in 2011, in which he reflects on thirty years of work and on the difficulty of designing menswear. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/4cba1c88-9cd2-4706-b5ba-c33328e06fb9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8pXZygHT38
- **2021-08-01**, Awase Bocho: Forging at Izumi Riki Seisakusho, Sakai. Washoku Association film on laminated-blade knife making at the Sakai Toji workshop, showing the joining of hard steel to soft iron. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/7c898825-2f79-4788-8329-e32580f72f2e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBhAyCZkejE
- **2021-08-25**, ASCII on the Game Boy and Gunpei Yokoi. Former Monthly ASCII editor Satoshi Endo discusses the 1989 Game Boy and Gunpei Yokoi's design thinking while rebuilding the handheld in bricks. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/14b415bc-7d0b-40ab-8e89-b6b650e1be6b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aVowMbczuw
- **2021-10-21**, MacArthur and the occupation of Japan. National WWII Museum lecture on Douglas MacArthur's approach to the Allied occupation, and the reforms and constitution that came out of it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6b4b0917-3078-47ee-8336-d9131f6aece9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F34-Rx9TLcs
- **2021-11-08**, The Soul in a Sakai Knife. TV Osaka and Nikkei co-production visiting the Tanaka forge in Sakai to show how the cutting edge professional chefs prize is drawn out of Yasuki steel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/357ba133-c8cf-42a2-915e-751712855b0f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7mR2PbH-hM
- **2021-11-12**, Fashion waste, Bunka students and Shibuya 109. TV Tokyo on a pop-up in which Bunka Fashion College students worked with SHIBUYA 109 on garments addressing textile waste and overproduction. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b3be6034-a185-4da4-a769-8ee8cf57a139) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFC4QfeOYyc
- **2021-11-14**, A Year Among the Unsui: Daily Life at Eiheiji. Documentary following the training monks of Eiheiji, the Soto Zen head monastery founded by Dogen in 1244, through a full year of monastic practice. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e3f6af64-d367-4b30-be51-e961414002c8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkQbVTtHgOk
- **2021-11-16**, Keeping Oide Morihachiman Kagura Alive Through the Pandemic. Sendai City Museum of History and Folklore record of a designated intangible folk cultural property, following the parishioners and preservation society through cancelled festivals. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/0ccad6c3-7448-4b59-8268-55444085a09e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FEHY7ndA80
- **2021-11-16**, How yuzen dyeing is done, from the Tokyo National Museum. Tokyo National Museum reconstructs the yuzen process, the Edo-period pattern dyeing technique that lets a dyer paint fine images onto silk, using an Important Cultural Property furisode from its collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/82850af5-de59-4d54-a9ec-770223563cc5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNVZqZxlX3I
- **2021-11-22**, Kamiarizuki: The Gods Gather at Izumo Taisha. Film of the Izumo rites of the tenth lunar month, when the eight million kami are said to convene at Izumo Taisha under Okuninushi to decide human fortunes and marriages. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/cf55604e-80dc-4048-9d37-c2c326e97f6d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av25Tm-u0ig
- **2021-11-29**, Michelin Guide Tokyo 2022 Star Revelation. Official Michelin ceremony marking fifteen years of the Tokyo guide, running through Bib Gourmand, one-, two- and three-star awards and the new Green Star. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/bb1e06d0-95a9-4422-b5df-bae71c8c2cb3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wADEtXb81uk
- **2021-12-17**, Mingei and the Beauty of Anonymous Hands. Discussion of mingei, the term coined by Soetsu Yanagi and others in 1925 for the everyday objects of nameless craftsmen, and the movement's response to mass production. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/72260ad6-e72e-4623-9a33-176a74670bb7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgsnTpEMwAc
### 2022
- **2022-01-04**, How a Ukiyo-e Print Is Made: The Printing Process. Tokyo National Museum film showing the multi-block printing of Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa, demonstrated by the Adachi Foundation for the Preservation of Woodcut Printing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/924c063e-aad9-4724-a9ba-2e4adb53c516) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej6HRzYarEU
- **2022-01-30**, The Kioke Cooper Revival Project at Yamaroku Shoyu. Footage from the annual vat-building project at Yamaroku Shoyu on Shodoshima, where a soy-sauce maker taught himself coopering to keep wooden-vat brewing alive. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5bec2261-df76-477e-acbd-36c155287551) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b0ln4JXHFg
- **2022-02-01**, Japan's First High School for Aspiring Pro Gamers. Nippon TV reports on the opening of Japan's first specialist high school aimed at students who want to become professional esports players. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/51adbb2f-707b-4304-bc5b-495541b85553) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZMpgfLEofY
- **2022-02-17**, Hikaru Utada on Bad Mode and non-binary pronouns. Apple Music interview about Utada's eighth Japanese-language album, electronic production and their decision to use non-binary pronouns. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/33e351b5-b871-4a6d-bc7f-e6a7ebce63b5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5fsPWqmABM
- **2022-02-19**, How Katsuobushi Is Made. Yaizu katsuobushi cooperative film on the full production of dried bonito: filleting, simmering, repeated smoking and the mould-culturing that yields karebushi, the base of dashi. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/94f1de8a-451b-4e29-b451-e92238b54527) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGy7K-WhOg4
- **2022-02-20**, The Yamahoko Float Rituals of the Kyoto Gion Festival. Official documentary record of the Gion Matsuri float rituals, a designated Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property inscribed by UNESCO in 2009, tracing the festival back to the Heian-era goryo-e. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b65948ff-f893-4edb-b652-d47cac041e8a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9AD7KOCiQU
- **2022-02-23**, Elden Ring - Pre-Release Staff Interview. Bandai Namco's interview with the FromSoftware production team before Elden Ring's February 2022 launch, on building an open world from the Souls formula. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3415dcea-d89a-41ca-9fa7-f5eb9854424a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP_SmxASo5Q
- **2022-02-24**, Inside the jeans makers of Kojima. French series Asie Insolite travels to Kojima, the birthplace of the Japanese jeans industry, visiting the mills and makers that supply the global selvedge trade. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6ebc7636-55c3-4373-b0b7-e58afc3008a4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWiIPLvYv5Y
- **2022-02-26**, 180 Days of a Woman Toji: Sake Brewing at Imada Shuzo. Hiroshima TV documentary following Miho Imada, head of a sake brewery founded in 1868, through a full brewing season including her first use of wooden vats. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9144872e-7734-41d7-8d34-f9d2607de055) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW6oj1OyhCc
- **2022-02-27**, Attack on Titan Final Season: Director and CGI Producer in Conversation. Director Yuichiro Hayashi and CGI producer Yusuke Tannawa discuss the screen design and hybrid 2D/3D pipeline of Attack on Titan's final season at MAPPA. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1cffaa40-bc55-4e0d-b127-b87c3b3d665a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xClVSqTVAeg
- **2022-02-27**, How Weekly Shonen Jump Is Printed: Inside the Goka Factory. Cameras follow the manufacture of Weekly Shonen Jump at the Kyodo Printing Goka plant in Ibaraki, from platemaking through printing, binding and dispatch. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c0c3d9e6-e5b8-49af-8bae-51cb2c9f0bf3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4RB-hbj9Xk
- **2022-03-04**, The Techniques That Gave Akira Its Quality. A technical breakdown of the animation methods, full animation, pre-recorded dialogue, elaborate colour separation, that Japan's bubble-era money made possible on Akira. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/7119d473-f404-428b-bc12-0b984f49464a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEa_F0xk_5k
- **2022-03-11**, Why We Love Cherry Blossom: Hanami in the Ukiyo-e Record. History-trained guide traces the practice of hanami and Edo's famous blossom sites through ukiyo-e prints, from the outer moat to Ueno. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/7990248e-134a-49ee-ab48-a2d48b9c16de) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb_GsyaCxWM
- **2022-03-14**, Sukayu Onsen: A Toji Bathing Resort Through the Years. ATV Aomori archive film on Sukayu Onsen, a long-established toji cure resort, and how it came to open through the deep-snow winters that once closed it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/7a3a34f3-6c2d-4084-ba18-1a90385a79ba) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kCah-kFHGs
- **2022-03-24**, Kinema Citrus's Digital Drawing Workflow. Studio Kinema Citrus documents its full digital animation pipeline, layout, key animation, inbetweens and production management, built on Clip Studio Paint and Toei's digital timesheet. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5ff2f9b6-e801-4a63-8fd6-c59cd95a9d3c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC_g91xST6s
- **2022-03-27**, Hamaguchi's Oscar Backstage Speech for Drive My Car. Ryusuke Hamaguchi speaks backstage at the 94th Academy Awards after Drive My Car won Best International Feature, the second Japanese film to take the award in the modern category. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a8491a78-6712-499d-99d3-4ff19c1ae8ab) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcI7gdFCneI
- **2022-03-29**, Learning to See With Art Director Nizo Yamamoto. Anime art director Nizo Yamamoto, background painter on Grave of the Fireflies, Castle in the Sky and Princess Mononoke, teaches how to read a landscape as a painter would. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/99b9093c-db26-4c12-b2bc-54c8637ed286) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLCkBehAwy0
- **2022-03-30**, Hirose Kasuri: A Complete Production Record. Preservation society's full record of Hirose kasuri, a Shimane designated intangible cultural property, from warp measurement and thread-tying resist through natural indigo dyeing and weaving. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8cf33f27-e76f-41cb-9013-6ee105c7e155) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0c_ihCeafk
- **2022-03-30**, Where Mingei Was Born: Yanagi and Kawai in Kyoto. Antiques magazine Menome visits Soetsu Yanagi's former Kyoto residence and the Kanjiro Kawai Memorial Museum, the sites where the mingei movement took shape a century ago. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9cae437c-bd7b-44f1-bce6-36743192f9d6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu3iTEcE7HI
- **2022-04-09**, Chasing the Manga Dream at Tama Tokiwa-so. Nippon TV follows a 25-year-old who moved to Tokyo to live at the Tama Tokiwa-so housing project and try to become a professional mangaka. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8c2e0e64-cd68-4b87-806a-a023b34f608b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK7T8dWkeA4
- **2022-04-25**, Welcome to the Noh Theatre: How Noh and Kyogen Work. Nohgaku Performers' Association primer in which working actors explain the Noh stage, its conventions and the two forms, with footage from the Tokyo 2020 Noh festival. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e7f040eb-6397-44d6-b652-6b5c9db3fed7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDUzjAy25fA
- **2022-04-30**, Why Japanese denim is so expensive. Business Insider on the Kojima denim industry, where a pair from a maker such as Momotaro can pass 2,000 dollars, and the shuttle looms and indigo dyeing that account for it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9e7a1bf1-ce60-4814-9d30-0f0d8286e753) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS8wuGu9CUo
- **2022-05-02**, Morning Practice at Sadogatake Stable. Japan Sumo Association film of an uncut morning training session at Sadogatake-beya, watched from beside the stablemaster, with wrestlers including Kotonowaka. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1c9eaf82-ebe5-4e3c-a7f8-a0afec57f493) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc1xw4VzXFw
- **2022-05-04**, The First Fukuoka Indie Game Summit. Full stream of the inaugural Fukuoka Indie Game Summit in 2022, with talks by Japanese doujin and indie developers including CAVYHOUSE on making and shipping small games. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/158fccc7-7655-4373-b8a5-8d237df10e6e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYQkJiKdDsI
- **2022-05-04**, From Rice to Bottle at Senkin Brewery. Full record of the sake-making process at Senkin in Sakura, Tochigi, following the kurabito through washing, steaming, koji and fermentation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/727a8ee9-6991-474c-abf5-5180f93a51f1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNTWn_VQdMo
- **2022-05-25**, Background Art: Seventy Percent of the Frame. TV Tokyo's anime-craft series interviews art director Katsumi Takao, of Pokémon among many series, on how background art builds a show's world. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/eae816d7-754a-4128-9ae4-ed3f672302e3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXVzWXMHnJo
- **2022-06-09**, Eiichiro Oda's Original Manga Pages. One Piece's official channel examines Eiichiro Oda's raw manuscript pages, showing the inking, tone work and lettering behind a weekly serialised manga. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/97709f9d-830d-4423-8940-46d4aae0cf09) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnrTkn3K5a8
- **2022-06-14**, Shirataka tsumugi: sixty kimono a year. Yamagata broadcaster's craft series on the sixth-generation head of a weaving workshop producing Shirataka tsumugi, a board-dyed silk made in tiny numbers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/52406a40-db3c-44a6-b592-3895b567fcdd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIdLBufk9uk
- **2022**, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, from Sakamoto's last sessions. Sakamoto plays his own Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, filmed over eight days in September 2022 for Opus, which he conceived as a record of his playing while he was still able to perform. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/cbcd1a75-8cad-4b7f-a54e-21808296df02) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELJf83TelA0
- **2022-06-17**, TBS Radio on the history of anison. TBS Radio music column with singer-songwriter Miton Usui tracing the anime song as a Japanese musical form and export. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/2b17b215-52d8-4a13-b813-ee3172be5aa4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AME-4eARZkg
- **2022-06-22**, Kyoto's Five Hanamachi: A Maiko of Gion Kobu. Kyoto Traditional Musical Art Foundation film introducing the five geisha districts of Kyoto through an interview with Maya, a maiko of Gion Kobu. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ef0bc070-7b88-492d-9ac2-f73f6c9b2a33) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnH08LrRw-k
- **2022-06-22**, The history of Comme des Garcons. Chronological history of Rei Kawakubo's label from its Tokyo founding through the 1981 Paris debut that critics dubbed 'Hiroshima chic', to its later collaborations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f8be6941-b521-450e-9480-455707b16e29) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAxefGlav44
- **2022-07-04**, I Love Sushi: The World of Nigiri-Zushi. Second part of the Japan Foundation series, on the technique and conventions of nigiri sushi as practised today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/23ce7726-d5ed-45b0-92ff-81c8abc85cf2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OY50l7V_KQ
- **2022-07-04**, I Love Sushi: A Tour of Sushi History. Japan Foundation film tracing sushi from its arrival over 1,200 years ago as a preserved-fish technique through regional adaptation to the birth of nigiri in Edo two centuries ago. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/41cec499-4ff6-4c57-9484-cf0a06ee1be0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiXPJxsPKu0
- **2022-07-06**, From Iron Sand to Sword: The Eight Stages of Katana Forging. Kumamoto Craft Hall film documenting swordsmith Genrokuro Matsunaga through the full sequence: iron-sand gathering, tamahagane sorting, stacking, folding, shaping, clay coating and quenching. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/068d1db4-77ea-414f-9add-55c2212bee28) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lutTRwscFiM
- **2022-07-08**, Shinzo Abe dies after being shot at a campaign event. BBC News on the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe, 67, shot twice during a speech in Nara on the morning of 8 July 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e4ff2f55-10e6-4346-be4d-6ba08df76abd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwoOzdHlq9w
- **2022-07-10**, Cutting Edge: The World of Edo Kiriko. Koto City film on Edo kiriko cut glass, a nationally designated traditional craft, visiting Horiguchi, Shinozaki and Nemoto workshops for technique and contemporary work. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/81f2bacc-3b99-4a9d-8d66-8125b1551bef) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpxzEAlSDQw
- **2022-07-23**, JAniCA on the Structure of Anime Production. The Japan Animation Creators Association hosts auditor Daisuke Oketa for a long session on how the anime industry is structured and how its money actually flows. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/95fca797-f2bb-49a6-b55d-f784977b6568) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwoJYCuwTws
- **2022-08-05**, Discarded kimono remade into modern dresses. Yomiuri TV on upcycling kimono, a garment tradition over a thousand years old and once everyday wear, now rarely worn and often thrown away, into contemporary dresses. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/05d49742-e679-4349-bd04-3fd801632dab) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QulK9YzW6Zc
- **2022-08-09**, Yuki Tsumugi: Silk Spun, Tied and Woven by Hand. Agency for Cultural Affairs record of Yuki tsumugi, a UNESCO-listed textile, from hand-spinning floss silk through hand-tied kasuri resist and weaving on a backstrap loom. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/430ef4c7-bef1-4436-8c52-41aeaab1e4a8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9EfMesZ5EA
- **2022-08-09**, Kinma Lacquer: The Technique of Yoshito Yamashita. Agency for Cultural Affairs record of kinma lacquer carving, in which a Living National Treasure builds a box through ground layers, carving and more than fifty colour infills. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/64cdf1c7-cdae-46c5-9453-6db5caaf4ebf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PsPwsZc-G0
- **2022-08-09**, Woodwork: The Technique of Kenji Suda. Agency for Cultural Affairs record of Living National Treasure Kenji Suda building a small chest in Mikurajima mulberry and sycamore, covering stock selection, decoration, jointing and assembly. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e4e405b0-9112-494a-ae27-f07c835a46df) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spQ0dwTvz_I
- **2022-08-10**, Issey Miyake dies aged 84. BBC News report on the death of Issey Miyake in August 2022, and the tributes to a designer who joined traditional Japanese technique with industrial innovation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/bc19be7d-fb74-4ed5-a115-cc4fd1710110) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tih_p_NlXo
- **2022-08-23**, Hibakusha testimony: Tsuneaki Suzuki, aged 13 in Hiroshima. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum survivor testimony. Suzuki was 13 and about 2.7km from the hypocentre on 6 August 1945; his uncle's family in the city centre was killed entirely. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b18f1f44-ad38-444e-9829-35a02778e0ea) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P01X86jLP7U
- **2022-08-27**, Flour, Salt and Water: Sanuki Udon by Yoshitaka Yamashita. The owner of the Kagawa udon shop Yoshiya, profiled on the documentary series Jonetsu Tairiku, teaches the kneading, foot-treading and cutting behind kamatama udon. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8cbc2466-03f9-46d6-bafb-a4c2a464078b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6LOPI-rBx8
- **2022-09-14**, How the National Film Archive of Japan Restores Film. The National Film Archive of Japan explains what it collects, how prints are stored, and the technical process by which deteriorated Japanese films are restored. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/051762ac-54dd-4fbf-a94e-d26471c75406) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIv5TJBQNxA
- **2022-09-17**, Soba Making at Edo Soba Hosokawa. Takashi Hosokawa of the Michelin-listed Ryogoku soba house demonstrates the full sequence from dough to cutting, boiling and plating. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c50bb618-cc6c-4d18-a0cf-3b5a70cde72b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21nb0Ot5LAA
- **2022-10-14**, Ekiben at 150 Years of Japanese Railways. Nippon TV report marking the railway's 150th anniversary, with revival editions of historic station bento and long-established makers trying new formats. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/315d9c58-f63f-47f2-92f6-62b4f0ad6b15) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESpO23BMjoQ
- **2022-10-28**, The history of Issey Miyake. Career history of Issey Miyake, from surviving the Hiroshima bombing as a child through his training in Paris to Pleats Please and A-POC. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/91dddcbd-7686-48c7-8b90-759f505e273a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcFvPXef7As
- **2022-11-07**, Introduction to Zazen at the Tokyo Branch of Eiheiji. NHK radio Kokoro no Jidai recording in which Zenko Tento of Eiheiji's Tokyo branch temple gives instruction in seated Zen meditation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b150a4da-d17e-46aa-b4f5-941f8452041c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvz0kMyJrdE
- **2022-11-20**, Sekishu Washi Papermaker Haruka Kikuchi. Ashita e no Tobira episode on Sekishu-banshi handmade paper in Shimane, a UNESCO-listed washi technique now kept by four workshops. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/eaa2fa2f-13cf-4a3e-a04b-4a460768b90a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Gm17ba7G8
- **2022-12-03**, Tokyo Story Enters the BFI Greatest Films Top Ten. Japanese news report on the 2022 edition of the British Film Institute's once-a-decade Greatest Films of All Time poll, in which Ozu's Tokyo Story placed in the top ten. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1a5cfcdd-1509-4c3e-a8ee-ddc51b28b8f5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uoKQiAdVU8
- **2022-12-08**, Hidetaka Miyazaki Accepts Game of the Year for Elden Ring. Miyazaki's full acceptance speech at The Game Awards 2022, where Elden Ring won Game of the Year, the first FromSoftware title to do so. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/7fa21d31-a816-431d-942f-e35fd8087a43) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6mXcr_No88
- **2022-12-09**, The Crucified Lovers in 4K - Daiei Film Festival. KADOKAWA's feature on the 4K restoration of Mizoguchi's The Crucified Lovers (1954), part of the Daiei 4K film festival restoring the studio's back catalogue. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3a505add-e10d-4de4-a6db-ba51fd5c862a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwArAHRWW9M
- **2022-12-10**, Why Netflix Is Cutting Back Anime Production in Japan. Toyo Keizai analyses Netflix's retrenchment in Japanese anime commissioning after the streamer's first back-to-back quarterly subscriber losses in 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d559ec8a-c880-45ec-8125-b3c099a4d281) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu_8RxytAYE
- **2022-12-17**, Rashomon in 4K - Daiei 4K Film Festival. KADOKAWA's special feature for the Daiei 4K Film Festival, presenting the 4K restoration of Kurosawa's Rashomon, the film that won the Venice Golden Lion in 1951 and opened Japanese cinema to the West. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6e15faee-bd50-4d96-9e0e-f173f28cef22) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBKSG2pM4K0
- **2022-12-26**, Ugetsu in 4K - Daiei Film Festival. KADOKAWA presents the 4K restoration of Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu (1953), the ghost story that won the Silver Lion at Venice and is a benchmark of long-take Japanese cinema. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/caa45975-1f47-46cf-bb28-dcd1641da7d8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jz4grZPstA
- **2022-12-31**, Inside Kikunoi: A Kyoto Ryotei with 14 Straight Michelin Three-Star Years. Service-hour footage of the kitchen at Kikunoi, the historic Kyoto kaiseki restaurant in Higashiyama, during lunch. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b5bb1210-dd82-4af8-b532-ff9d98e102c1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_j8-ro8xA0
### 2023
- **2023-01-05**, Toyosu New Year Auction: 36 Million Yen for One Tuna. Nippon TV coverage of the hatsu-zeri at Toyosu, where a wild bluefin from Oma in Aomori sold for 36.04 million yen, with the wholesaler who won it three years running. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6432652f-8d53-4f22-b62a-aaa9e3ab8180) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSVTP6fV3Rs
- **2023-01-16**, Issey Miyake after Miyake: the Spring 2023 show in Paris. Analysis of the first Issey Miyake runway show in Paris following the designer's death, directed by Satoshi Kondo, set against the Pleats Please legacy. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/926d75e1-7f73-48ff-9b3d-fcf2b14186d6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtyJy_SSZ7o
- **2023-01-26**, Preserving Is Showing: The National Film Archive of Japan. Japan's national film archive sets out its history and its reason for being an archive rather than a museum, why keeping film means projecting it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/29c42441-7b95-4bd3-8707-4aabef3c8a2f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wt61sLTuFE
- **2023-01-26**, Traditional instruments taken into Japanese schools. Shakuhachi player Kizan Kawamura's digest of school concerts introducing koto, shamisen and shakuhachi to children, mixing Haru no Umi with Ghibli and YOASOBI. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/4c5af6f5-7a8b-4fd8-88c9-f5cce1fb269b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESj8j0AY-YM
- **2023-01-29**, Hagi Ware: The 14th Saka Koraizaemon. TV Yamaguchi profile of the fourteenth-generation head of the Saka Koraizaemon line, one of the founding Hagi ware houses descended from Korean potters. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/06292aea-a0e6-4e0e-890b-68e9e09e6dfd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcMc77SS9q8
- **2023-02-03**, A 23-Year-Old Rebuilds the Family Wagyu Herd. NNN Document on Tomoyuki Ikuta in Tottori, whose family ran the prefecture's largest wagyu breeding farm until his father and grandfather died and it closed, and who took up the work anyway. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c4b90ea2-3078-4d79-a7fa-47814ec74d67) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga9KAWtrtaM
- **2023-02-06**, One of Twenty Remaining Wooden-Vat Coopers. Ishikawa TV profile of Kunpei Sugimoto, one of roughly twenty kioke makers left in Japan, whose vats house the microbial colonies that give soy sauce, miso and sake their character. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/47ef659e-a6e0-4a24-b2eb-99a9919544d6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYFq8kIi6lc
- **2023-02-18**, Chuka Soba: The Showa-Era Ramen That Survived. Nippon TV feature on Tokyo shops still serving clear shoyu chuka soba in the pre-war style, one of them run by a third-generation chef refining his grandfather's recipe for over 40 years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b5fff442-5ae3-4413-8748-aeb029233b05) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE1mV_A2lBE
- **2023-03-17**, Predator: the BBC filmmakers at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan. Press conference with Mobeen Azhar and Megumi Inman on their BBC documentary about Johnny Kitagawa, held at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in March 2023 before Japanese media widely covered the story. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8c70ecf1-59d7-439a-af39-50ccd476d16f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2SisAVaS-w
- **2023-03-25**, Tadao Ando: From Boxer to World Architect. TV Osaka profile covering Ando's self-taught path, the loss of five organs to cancer, the Naoshima art islands and the children's libraries he funds. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ee3fc1d1-9b72-4e8a-9e37-630aa97bb919) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WshW8zzgMDU
- **2023-03-28**, Yoshiki Okamoto on First Meeting Donkey Kong. Capcom producer Yoshiki Okamoto recalls encountering the arcade Donkey Kong (1981) at a Konami showroom and how it set his standard for what a game should be. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/55bab4b5-4083-4bde-98fe-ee349e029128) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnf2Idxo0Xo
- **2023-03-28**, Eiji Aonuma Plays Tears of the Kingdom. Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma demonstrates Tears of the Kingdom himself ahead of its 2023 release, walking through the systems his team built. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/837d879a-d8f5-4815-bc64-ed5a5e1c1a7f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1dytEjbUqo
- **2023-04-07**, The Future of Wagyu: A Former Host Turned Cattle Breeder. TV Asahi Telementary documentary on Iki Fujiyama, who left Kabukicho for wagyu breeding and artificial insemination in Kirishima, Kagoshima, ahead of the five-yearly national wagyu championship. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/685495f2-6054-4129-a9b1-3ce71e846360) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE266UBCJaw
- **2023-04-12**, YOASOBI: Idol (2023). Official video for YOASOBI's Idol, the Oshi no Ko theme that became the first Japanese-language song to top the Billboard Global Excl. US chart. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f5bbbfb2-ee11-49b3-9dd5-06b1253726da) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRtdQ81jPUQ
- **2023-04-18**, Final Fantasy at 35: The Original Developers Reunite. Square Enix gathers Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, pixel artist Kazuko Shibuya and brand manager Yoshinori Kitase to discuss the series' origins and the JRPG's development. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/37571614-7f11-4c39-93c9-f0ec05fe6998) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZjoN_BX8ok
- **2023-04-20**, Hidetaka Miyazaki Named to TIME's 100 Most Influential. Japanese games-press report on FromSoftware's Hidetaka Miyazaki, director of Dark Souls and Elden Ring, being named to TIME's list of the 100 most influential people in 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b21ab9bf-4047-41b5-952f-1c852430c06e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_aHkMv83cA
- **2023-04-27**, Tatsuro Yamashita: Sparkle. Official video for 'Sparkle', the opening track of Yamashita's 1982 album For You and one of the records that carried city pop to a global audience four decades later. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/861455c9-752d-4e9f-a3e0-45adf6d95629) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqobRu9aR3M
- **2023-04-28**, Shigeru Miyamoto on How Mario Was Born. Kansai TV's special interview with Shigeru Miyamoto, who explains that Mario was conceived as a 25-to-26-year-old imagined working on New York pipe repair. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3cb2c842-f28f-4d91-8366-43d2ccec8a59) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5MKQS4TC1g
- **2023-05-05**, France 24: a former idol speaks about Johnny Kitagawa. France 24 report in which a former Johnny's trainee describes abuse by the J-pop mogul, whose company dominated Japanese boyband production for decades. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/adfa0d72-fe93-4180-8882-42211c69c093) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpMASlssECk
- **2023-05-12**, Kanda Matsuri: The Shinkosai Procession Departs. Footage of the hatsurensai, the departure of the Kanda Myojin phoenix palanquins for the shinkosai procession, opened by kiyari work-song chanting. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/099e9bca-e524-4de0-908c-4674d1106963) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrikT820QgY
- **2023-05-14**, Kanda Matsuri: Return of the Palanquins to the Shrine. The chakurensai, in which the shinkosai procession returns to Kanda Myojin after circuiting the parish, again led by kiyari chanters. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/362c2bb1-2385-43cc-8f96-c93faf672963) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btnC43FsinE
- **2023-05-15**, Makoto Shinkai: 'Thoroughly Local' Anime Goes Global. Nikkei interviews Makoto Shinkai about Suzume, made from the 2011 Tohoku disaster, and why he thinks the most local material travels furthest abroad. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b0c1d6fd-e843-47c6-873f-f263da172e9a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOwA39-nML4
- **2023-05-17**, Kiyoshi Kurosawa Master Class at the Cinémathèque française. Following a screening of Cure, Kiyoshi Kurosawa gives an hour-long master class on the film and his whole career, hosted by Jean-François Rauger. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6fad14ab-b102-48f8-aa20-25c60ff5e74b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6fOuZt5s1g
- **2023-05-19**, Analogue and Digital in the Anime Studio. Graphinica and ARCH head Nao Hirasawa discusses where CG and digital drawing now sit against hand-drawn technique in Japanese anime production. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a5d48c86-dd73-485a-866c-b72c1bd91f40) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8mOchY3BrM
- **2023-05-24**, Kitano's Kubi Premieres at Cannes. TV Asahi reports from the 76th Cannes Film Festival, where Takeshi Kitano's Sengoku-era film Kubi received a five-minute standing ovation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c590737a-9a04-428e-86cf-2c4fe0586f09) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFc3fdo_x-E
- **2023-06-07**, The firebombing of Tokyo: Al Jazeera Witness. Al Jazeera documentary on the raid launched just after midnight on 10 March 1945, which killed more than 100,000 people and destroyed a quarter of Tokyo, the most destructive air raid in history. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e4be67f5-44cf-422e-bf37-1ea11f43f347) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFVJ_N6qhnQ
- **2023-06-12**, The Fish Market Mikoshi Returns After Twenty Years. Record of the Uogashi Suijinja mikoshi carried at Kanda Matsuri for the first time since 2003; the shrine was founded by the Nihonbashi fish market's originator after Ieyasu entered Edo in 1590. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ab14ad82-918a-4124-9e5c-5c9ef5625b84) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qhYvw8sIC8
- **2023-06-13**, Yoshiki Okamoto on 1980s Arcade Development at Capcom. Capcom producer Yoshiki Okamoto, who oversaw Street Fighter II, recounts the technical constraints of building arcade games in the company's early years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6efaebe1-62eb-4ae0-9446-c79a0df19311) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eszw8iF2un8
- **2023**, Godzilla Minus One - Trailer. Toho's trailer for Takashi Yamazaki's Godzilla Minus One, the 70th-anniversary Godzilla film set in a ruined postwar Japan, which went on to win the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1ea89704-8e64-4e32-a5e7-347be978f0c1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7ythIm0834
- **2023**, Ise Jingu subshrine. Ise Grand Shrine. Ise Jingu subshrine [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/eca18a2b-a4f6-443e-b84b-013195c8275c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ise_Jingu_subshrine.jpg
- **2023**, 20231005 Replica of the Katsura Imperial Villa in the Window of the World. Katsura Imperial Villa. Replica of the Katsura Imperial Villa in the Window of the World [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f8480247-4128-4385-a98b-c5a277aaa006) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20231005_Replica_of_the_Katsura_Imperial_Villa_in_the_Window_of_the_World.jpg
- **2023-06-23**, Takashi Miike on Learning Film Under Shohei Imamura. Director Takashi Miike recalls training under Shohei Imamura, his start in V-cinema and his view of Takeshi Kitano, a first-hand account of Japan's straight-to-video pipeline. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/41cc8404-b28f-4afb-a73e-6dc46f6167ec) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2obJO1rynls
- **2023-06-26**, Making Raku Ware. Shoraku kiln, established 1905, shows the full hand-building of a raku tea bowl by the fourth-generation potter: pinching, hollowing, trimming and firing, in the form used for tea since the late sixteenth century. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d0014c3e-a396-43dd-86ce-afa452598a6b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOfFPhBDuoI
- **2023-06-30**, The First Woman Nebuta Master. Nippon TV documentary following Asako Kitamura, who broke 300 years of exclusively male Nebuta making, competing for prizes against her master-ranked father while raising a first child. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/722a4417-0feb-4cfd-80c0-2ac0d0e77bce) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js7poXtg-Zc
- **2023-07-09**, How handmade Japanese jeans are cut and sewn. Japanese-language workshop film following a denim craftsman making jeans entirely by hand, part of a series documenting Japanese manufacturing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f83fbba3-9b41-4d5b-ab9b-faa9a635b297) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myqcURxxs40
- **2023-07-13**, Okeshibori: barrel resist-dyeing for kimono. Demonstration of oke-shibori, in which the cloth is stitched around a barrel so that only the exposed area takes the dye, repeated to build complex colour fields. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b531f469-9b1d-484b-851f-02c9df533c91) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRgHutOznQE
- **2023-08-02**, Japanese armour and the invention of bushido. Royal Armouries lecture on how bushido, the 'way of the warrior', gained currency through Inazo Nitobe's 1899 book at a moment of national identity crisis, and on Japanese armour in Western collections. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/75c55208-017c-4a19-8635-84c68818c0b0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPY56iuVx6E
- **2023-08-12**, Yamazaki: Where Japanese Whisky Began. Whiskypedia episode on Suntory's Yamazaki distillery, begun in 1923 and Japan's oldest malt distillery, guided by Suntory whisky ambassador Taichi Sasaki in its centenary year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/07631cb2-993c-414b-85b4-a5c2623ee952) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJb9Nd3PI9A
- **2023-08-13**, Why MAPPA Funded Chainsaw Man Alone. MAPPA's Manabu Otsuka and Shonen Jump+ editor Shuhei Hosono debate the economics of the production committee, sole studio investment and where the manga and anime business is heading. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e1e0f7b0-3cb4-4682-acfc-4783de76751e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh2klZL0wr0
- **2023-08-13**, Awa Odori's Rupture: Veteran Troupes Shut Out. TV Asahi report on the 2023 Awa Odori, where long-established ren were excluded from the main venues after premium seating was introduced, and protested in an unlit park instead. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ef3d4386-7fc6-4583-9d10-033fd63b35dc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u4SUPJb0uk
- **2023-08-21**, Japan's Meiji Restoration, 3 January 1868. Ohio State University's Origins project on the Meiji Restoration, which returned the emperor to a position of power for the first time in over 500 years. Written by historian Tristan Grunow. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/998d928e-2ba4-4987-9d4e-a05be4261d4c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dZLWEGQDS8
- **2023-08-22**, The tapes from the death zone: 78 survivors within 500m of the hypocentre. Hiroshima Home TV report on testimony tapes recorded in the 1960s-80s and held at Hiroshima University's Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, from people who survived within 500m of the hypocentre. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5a9f50aa-1ec9-47a5-8485-4d0126ed82e1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLJE206yykA
- **2023-08-23**, Comiket Returns Without Restrictions. Nippon TV reports from the first Comic Market held without Covid restrictions, attended by 260,000 people, covering cosplay, corporate booths and self-published work. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/773776eb-612a-4168-95d5-732b2244928e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8B2edaWVug
- **2023-08-30**, Inside a Japanese school uniform factory, 170 years old. Workshop film following mass production at Kanko Gakuseifuku, a uniform maker in Okayama, the prefecture that dominates Japanese school uniform manufacture. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ee6132b6-b26b-4c1f-b5e9-78ba37c15b7b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcNXueV275E
- **2023-08-30**, Opus: Ryuichi Sakamoto's last concert film. Teaser for Opus, directed by Sakamoto's son Neo Sora, which premiered at Venice on 5 September 2023 and shows Sakamoto alone at a piano performing twenty of his compositions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f020590f-d49f-4e9f-8f6c-34960272b7b2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-7ykyoUh-c
- **2023-09-04**, Katsuhiro Otomo on Making Akira. An interview with director Katsuhiro Otomo about Akira, the 1988 cyberpunk feature whose animation budget and detail redefined what theatrical anime could look like. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/71a22ed1-3128-49aa-be98-f8e366530b0a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOslnyBRUes
- **2023-09-07**, Japan's biggest talent agency admits its founder abused young stars. BBC News report on Julie Fujishima's resignation and public apology in September 2023, a week after an independent inquiry found that Johnny Kitagawa had abused performers over decades. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d7d00de7-534b-424a-8f08-20eb088c8b00) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn8-M3HSNI4
- **2023-09-14**, The Arcade Game Museum Project Loses Its Building. A Japanese game-collecting channel covers the Arcade Game Museum Project's forced withdrawal from its premises, and the practical difficulty of preserving cabinets in Japan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d12da8a1-ad8e-45f3-8077-5cf4aba5259c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCXxFHf91_k
- **2023-10-08**, Working Animators Speak: From the Industry Survey. Extracts from Japanese animators' own testimony collected in an industry conditions survey, on pay, hours and the realities of key-animation work. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9dabf424-d82f-4a9a-a3f5-decc65a0ac55) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r2qvSyraDw
- **2023-10-09**, Valorant Masters Tokyo: 37,000 in Makuhari. Nippon TV reports on the first Valorant world championship held in Japan, with over 37,000 spectators at the Makuhari Messe finals. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b90d5007-290a-48fe-9379-49d7650f4f1f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrokt193nLg
- **2023-10-14**, Neo Sora on filming his father's final performance. Neo Sora talks to New York Film Festival artistic director Dennis Lim about making Opus, recording live music, and Ryuichi Sakamoto's relationship with cinema. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e9d9594e-5f40-426f-af73-b209a5f94c3f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Z2a8XVAoA
- **2023-11-01**, Positioning the memory of Nanjing in Nanjing, Beijing and Tokyo. University of Victoria symposium paper by Professor Guoguang Wu on how the memory of the December 1937 Nanjing Massacre is constructed differently in China and Japan; the death toll remains disputed, with mainstream estimates ranging widely and the event contested within Japan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e81f7bbf-d339-4168-8844-d7d4cb7cd36b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K02NICsQO4
- **2023-11-10**, Seat of Silence: Inside the Imaemon Kiln, Arita. Documentary on the Imaemon kiln, a holder-group of Important Intangible Cultural Property for Arita porcelain, recording three days of workshop practice. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/431f31d2-2122-410c-b75a-8d0a9001ae1a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPXYM-d7rC4
- **2023-11-10**, Carrying the Intent: Three Days at the Kakiemon Kiln. Documentary made by Saga University art students recording three days of workshop apprenticeship at the Kakiemon kiln in Arita, a holder-group for Important Intangible Cultural Property. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/60853924-ed47-42b4-bfae-00195ac85ef5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y0zNfzYXHg
- **2023-11-19**, Backstage at the Kabukiza, Ten Years After Rebuilding. Nippon TV culture feature in which kabuki actor Ukon Onoe guides viewers behind the scenes of the Kabukiza theatre, rebuilt in 2013. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c3cc5115-18f5-43fc-a20f-0c6883a6d355) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auE6uxbxvFI
- **2023-11-24**, Fujii Kaze: Hana. Official video for Fujii Kaze's Hana, released as a digital single in November 2023 with choreography by Shingo Okamoto. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/cded3bbc-ec7c-4285-9508-8ab80c5dc5c2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfPkl7lol7g
- **2023-12-10**, Naoki Urasawa on the Shock of Astro Boy and Reimagining It as PLUTO. Manga artist Naoki Urasawa discusses the impact Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy had on him as a child and how it led to his manga PLUTO and its Netflix anime adaptation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/4c774250-cc48-4bfd-b7a3-2578a375c427) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvzo-m99Y5U
- **2023-12-11**, Comme des Garcons Spring 1997: Body Meets Dress. Detailed study of Rei Kawakubo's 'lumps and bumps' collection, which padded the body into unfamiliar shapes and became one of the most argued-over shows in fashion. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8109da27-bcf4-404e-81c2-6b1e5e1d0c47) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9RZoxj5HNA
- **2023-12-14**, Ryusuke Hamaguchi on Drive My Car. TBS culture programme interviews director Ryusuke Hamaguchi about Drive My Car, the Murakami adaptation that took four prizes at Cannes in 2021 including Best Screenplay. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ebafaf91-e3ee-45d3-bec0-99c89431bb63) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGHjUnPMQtE
- **2023-12-15**, Shinji Mikami on His Capcom Years. Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami joins fellow Capcom veteran Yoshiki Okamoto for a first on-camera conversation about his time at the company. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c762092a-aba2-4c55-9130-b518825d86a8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zutaQHmfqBY
- **2023-12-16**, Why Resident Evil Went Exclusive to the GameCube. Shinji Mikami explains to Yoshiki Okamoto how a PlayStation-born series came to be released exclusively on Nintendo hardware. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/7715ba42-8eb4-4ce4-b8b5-35bbdd6296c8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqRVhLfvvww
### 2024
- **2024-01-01**, BUAISOU: Young Indigo Dyers of Tokushima. Kansai TV film on the BUAISOU workshop in Kamiita, Tokushima, who grow, compost and ferment their own Awa indigo and collaborated with Jimmy Choo. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/912539df-cfdb-496c-93e8-416ce49f0602) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQUMibbL07g
- **2024-01-30**, Carving and Printing Ukiyo-e: A Full Demonstration. Extended demonstration by working ukiyo-e carvers and printers, produced with the Ota Memorial Museum of Art and the Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/afed4a30-9e92-4e31-96f2-5dc8e5792985) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4yh3APuGtc
- **2024-01-30**, The Cinema of Mikio Naruse. A detailed Japanese analysis of Mikio Naruse's shooting method and his collaborations with screenwriter Yoko Mizuki on Floating Clouds and Mother. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/bfe16adc-c847-4bd3-a379-6ca4693b7cc0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM3oZgdgias
- **2024-02-15**, The VFX of Godzilla Minus One. Toho's making-of on the visual effects of Godzilla Minus One, narrated by director Takashi Yamazaki himself, who also supervised the VFX on a budget a fraction of Hollywood's. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c5615354-068c-40c2-92e3-016dfdde7630) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tej6GCean34
- **2024-02-17**, The Temple Carpenter and His Blacksmith: Nishioka and Shirataka. Account of the working relationship between miyadaiku Tsunekazu Nishioka and smith Yukinori Shirataka, who forged the chisels and planes for the Yakushiji rebuilding. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3716a3c9-3c3b-4a09-a99b-90ddf9a5dbad) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grJlQUMjMVY
- **2024-02-22**, Wajima Lacquer After the Noto Earthquake. Yomiuri TV report on Wajima-nuri, a lacquerware built from over a hundred separate processes, and a long-established workshop exhibiting salvaged pieces weeks after the January 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f8994d6f-8ae6-4134-8f4f-2e9ef3e2b705) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvoPATCT4jc
- **2024-03-06**, Yamazaki and Takeshi Yoro on Godzilla as an Idea. Godzilla Minus One director Takashi Yamazaki talks with anatomist Takeshi Yoro about what Godzilla means, for the GODZILLA THE ART exhibition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1ca5f300-e744-4e3b-8da3-79821b7490d7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0sRH4WQDOQ
- **2024-03-10**, All 41 Stages of Making a Sakai Kitchen Knife. Sakai Ichimonji Mitsuhide walks through the full forty-one-step division of labour in Sakai forged knife production, from steel forging through sharpening and handle fitting. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/15b8c0c2-b458-41a4-9155-ade4d32d0852) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXAjCzUsItg
- **2024-03-10**, Godzilla Minus One Wins the Visual Effects Oscar. Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi and Tatsuji Nojima accept the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 96th Oscars, the first Japanese film to win the category. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f2268668-3c5d-4d70-aeb9-cc1a1f733ab6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3q7SaXhCPE
- **2024-03-12**, Takashi Yamazaki on Winning the Oscar. Nippon TV's news zero interviews Takashi Yamazaki in his first television appearance after Godzilla Minus One took the visual-effects Oscar. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b6dfa307-8206-4b5c-8449-fa4f81a57093) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHl_0p67APE
- **2024-03-19**, Hirokazu Koreeda on Directing Children. TBS hosts Shoplifters director Hirokazu Koreeda for a long conversation about the films he admires for their direction of child actors. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/86378ff9-e622-4015-8b0e-b560a9507b3b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT6BdWWZZZw
- **2024-03-28**, The high-mortality society: lonely deaths and crematorium queues. ABC TV report on Japan's record 1.59 million deaths in a single year and the strain it places on crematoria, funerals and unclaimed remains. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3bede520-c55a-452d-a5d4-6cddf57bcce7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSZDo-S5wGs
- **2024-03-30**, BBC: Mobeen Azhar interviews the head of Smile-Up on the Kitagawa abuse. BBC News Japan interview with Noriyuki Higashiyama, chief executive of Smile-Up, the renamed Johnny and Associates, on compensating close to 1,000 men who say they were abused by founder Johnny Kitagawa. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/45784f94-dc7f-45dc-bd65-9267351e557c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLygmiua9LE
- **2024-04-01**, Noh and Kyogen: Ohara Goko and Kiyomizu Zato. Full Kamakura Noh Butai programme at the Kanze Noh Theatre, pairing Nomura Mansai's kyogen with the Noh play Ohara Goko, preceded by a scholarly lecture. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e2b50140-7982-486a-a14d-4f359a5ae16b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7ncBZJ4BjA
- **2024-04-16**, How city pop came together: Tatsuro Yamashita and Eiichi Ohtaki. Japanese-language music history essay on the formation of city pop, tracing the genre from Happy End through Tatsuro Yamashita and Eiichi Ohtaki. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ec6771f3-b5cd-4630-8c4c-9e6fff1445d4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=797dbaCBvN8
- **2024-04-18**, The World Wants Wooden-Vat Soy Sauce. JETRO documentary on kioke-brewed shoyu, following a 150-year-old Shodoshima brewery reviving wooden-vat fermentation and finding overseas buyers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/2765809e-0451-4e6b-a1db-6e2466b4e3ef) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrgU2sULQSg
- **2024-05-10**, Toji: Bathing and Sleeping, and Nothing Else. Miyagi TV report on the revival of toji, the extended hot-spring cure stay, as travellers seek digital detox and better sleep rather than sightseeing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/27dc6429-063d-4862-a927-c3d1b68ae86e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ctXgCv8-9k
- **2024-05-11**, Kikunoi from Prep to Service. Behind the scenes at Kikunoi honten in Kyoto, awarded three Michelin stars for the fifteenth consecutive year in the 2024 guide, from morning prep through lunch service. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/873db7a4-4b47-419f-bb45-6c9bbeaf747d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKKtxq9JF4o
- **2024-05-13**, Japan's lost decade: the bubble and its collapse. Documentary on the formation and bursting of the Japanese asset bubble, which peaked in 1989 and collapsed from 1991, and the long stagnation that followed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/0cfee639-fbbe-4a9f-a7f6-3d9addb9d87e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmnVP35uZFY
- **2024-05-17**, The black ships: Perry's arrival seen through its pictures. Japanese cultural-history lecture on Perry's 1853 arrival, the diplomacy that followed, and the fact that the famous textbook illustration of the black ships was drawn by Wilhelm Heine, the expedition's German artist. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/459056f5-03ba-400d-a15c-773a6cd4a329) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIvGsxVytCs
- **2024-05-17**, Harajuku's fashion rebirth. South China Morning Post on how Harajuku, once a quiet corner of Shibuya Ward, became an international street-fashion centre, and what the district looks like now. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/7a5cb51d-92b7-4440-b17f-9fbe83c9e6f9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqrd5X34CLA
- **2024-05-22**, A Thousand People a Year Go to a Kyoto Zen Temple to Train. ABC TV feature on a Kyoto Zen temple where roughly a thousand lay people a year undertake the rigorous practice, and on why they go. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f1273269-e38b-4044-96b0-d24b9c171ec7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKZ4CrH1T_I
- **2024-05-30**, Anime Exports Rise While Studios Run Short of Staff. Nippon TV reports on Japan's content-export boom set against chronic understaffing in anime and manga production, and the government measures proposed in response. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/477a9514-def6-4e8e-85f0-30ce86fb3e0c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gTeedy4Klo
- **2024-06-13**, Making a Katsuobushi Plane. Process film at a long-established Japanese hardware maker building the finest grade of katsuobushi shaving box, a plane blade set in a wooden case for the hardest food in the world. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/0318b417-5903-4080-8a24-ac452ff21685) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHMlmoyFAo0
- **2024**, Dragon Ball DAIMA - Teaser. Toei Animation's teaser for Dragon Ball DAIMA, the wholly new series whose story and character designs Akira Toriyama supplied before his death in 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/fdb91222-fd0d-46c2-a493-f0c30c211878) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkzzoDLrRDM
- **2024-07-25**, X Japan: the whole story in 48 minutes. Japanese-language history of X Japan, the band that made visual kei a mass genre: Toshi and Yoshiki's meeting, Taiji's departure, the failed US debut, the 1997 breakup, hide's death and the reunion. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/7d770926-4c5e-41be-ad6b-8a0b8acbb297) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5cyXm_UEnQ
- **2024-07-25**, Building a Nebuta Float. Aomori City filmed the making of a large Nebuta over seven weeks, following paper application, ink outlining, wax drawing, colouring and mounting on its base. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/87bf43cf-7073-4a0f-a02a-86b300ec8603) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKilSYq6BLA
- **2024-08-09**, Takehiko Inoue: The Vagabond Documentary. A full documentary following Takehiko Inoue, creator of Slam Dunk and Vagabond, at work, brush technique, deadline pressure and the physical labour of weekly manga. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ad7990c6-dddd-4ceb-bcc2-ff6c7a8d3be1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj_mXSJ3v30
- **2024-08-10**, THE ONE PIECE: Staff Interview, Production Notes Vol. 1. The official One Piece channel introduces the main staff of THE ONE PIECE, the WIT Studio remake of Eiichiro Oda's manga made for Netflix. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/09cede1c-a3bf-4898-8422-90bdc6835d32) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB6WQYbgQzQ
- **2024-08-13**, Momotaro Jeans: the craftsmen of Kojima, Okayama. Interviews with the denim craftsmen at Momotaro Jeans, founded in Kojima, Okayama in 2006, in the district that supplies most of the world's Japanese selvedge denim. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/23385397-c3f6-41d2-80be-4ee52d0f7766) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRB_cMgExKU
- **2024-08-15**, Why Dashi Tastes Good: The Science of Umami. Ryori Okoku programme analysing three dashi stocks made by chef Hayashi of Tenoshima, breaking down umami scientifically with the Umami Information Center. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/4a300c1a-2309-4cf8-83f0-9056844ca434) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x49VtNN0wFE
- **2024-08-15**, A history of anime song. Japanese music history episode on anison, from Astro Boy through the 1970s robot themes to the modern tie-in industry that now drives much of the singles chart. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c473498c-412a-436b-8830-24c24d92657c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p6jd8IBWeA
- **2024-08-19**, Nintendo Museum Direct. Nintendo's own presentation introducing the Nintendo Museum in Uji, Kyoto, a permanent exhibition running from the company's 1889 hanafuda cards through its consoles. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/880b83df-5b05-4d79-b770-f1906236875a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z82nMAuGCME
- **2024-09-01**, The Tempura Batter of Tempura Kondo. Master Fumio Kondo breaks down the fundamentals of tempura batter, tools and oil temperature at his two-Michelin-star Ginza counter. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/276b6cfc-6e5a-4906-b4e9-fc7cc37ba50a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hENqJV1rf5M
- **2024-09-10**, Japan's High-School Esports Championship. Nagoya broadcaster Mētele follows a high-school Valorant team through STAGE:0, the tournament billed as the Koshien of Japanese esports. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ca35e6c7-2065-4498-b42e-0dd251cbb6a7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slG8tRjr3Y0
- **2024-09-15**, Frying Kisu: Edomae Tempura at Tempura Kondo. Fumio Kondo of the Ginza restaurant Tempura Kondo demonstrates filleting and frying whiting in the Edomae style, filmed for a technique series. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f76b6b54-f45a-4896-bc96-1ceee87fbc78) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujaHSQwqllE
- **2024-09-21**, Kyoto Animation's 2025 Lineup Presentation. Kyoto Animation presents its 2025 slate in a special programme, five years on from the 2019 arson attack that killed 36 of its staff. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/fe844a67-fc70-4ace-b422-665cab5d2f0b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTCPgSP6SUQ
- **2024-09-25**, The Nintendo Museum Opens to the Press. Kyoto Shimbun films the press preview of the Nintendo Museum in Uji on 25 September 2024, showing the hanafuda, playing cards and consoles gathered in one place. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6f5872d6-4dc8-4fe1-b960-fcbb18685bbd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avq4CvnlG5A
- **2024-09-30**, Samurai Aloha: old kimono cut into shirts for tourists. TV Asahi on Samurai Aloha, which remakes secondhand kimono into aloha shirts selling at 27,000 yen each, taking roughly 3 million yen a month from a one-tsubo counter at Narita Airport. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/76d45aa0-bbe2-4ee0-8b84-2f5f900113bc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkDR32UX0-c
- **2024-10-01**, What the Nintendo Museum Means for Uji. MBS covers the October 2024 opening of the Nintendo Museum and interviews a Nomura Research Institute analyst on its expected economic effect on the city of Uji. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d25f5a5f-a342-430c-a01f-93eb051534f3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_loIFvwTQIc
- **2024-10-04**, Ando's Latest Work and What He Wants Japan to Hear. Yomiuri TV report on Tadao Ando's recent projects, including the renovation of Nobel laureate Hideki Yukawa's house, the Naoshima New Museum of Art and the Umekita park district in Osaka. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/4d7f0212-12df-4cef-9eec-7b4c38710de8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2pbANTliOs
- **2024-10-19**, Michelin Guide Tokyo 2025: 18 Straight Years as the World's Most-Starred City. Coverage of the guide's Tokyo announcement, with 507 listed restaurants, twelve three-star houses, and the French restaurant Sezanne promoted to three stars. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d027f880-2e73-4fc0-bf19-c090cbd8876d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6H60oj2J4w
- **2024-10-20**, Edo Kiriko Cut-Glass Craftsman Kaito Nabetani. Ashita e no Tobira episode on the fourth-generation head of Nabetani Glass in Kamata, cutting two rock glasses and explaining the precision the patterns demand. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/beff099c-5147-4722-b5c5-bc491c3dbd4a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFGjK9R_Dw4
- **2024-10-29**, Where the ganguro gyaru came from, and why they vanished. Researcher Yuka Kubo, author of a study of gyaru culture, on the origins of ganguro in Shibuya, its links to surf culture and the postwar American secondhand clothing trade around what is now 109. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/563070e7-dc0b-49f3-85b5-46a4a4525ffa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZMlC-Sktik
- **2024-10-31**, Bloomberg: how Japan made robots part of everyday life. Bloomberg Originals documentary with Haslinda Amin on robots and AI in Japanese agriculture and industry, from crop drones to unmanned harvesters. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/4e776b27-1f0d-4e5a-b486-6125519b8a6e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk8OtebGpt8
- **2024-11-29**, The Reiwa Tokiwa-so: Young Mangaka Living Together. TV Asahi documentary on an NPO-run apartment block in Tokyo where roughly fifty aspiring manga artists live and work, a modern echo of the Tokiwa-so that housed Tezuka and Fujiko Fujio. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6fd0344c-4a3c-4e33-8785-4a3480bfbd03) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_R904s0QTc
- **2024-11-29**, Inside Nagasaki City's Only Sake Brewery. NCC Nagasaki visits the city's last remaining brewery in the run-up to the UNESCO inscription of traditional Japanese sake brewing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d9d0d4bf-85b3-46b2-b9de-75739cde31e0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF74v9F46aw
- **2024-12-01**, Fattening 800 Wagyu in Saikai, Nagasaki. NCC Nagasaki report on a farmer raising roughly 800 kuroge wagyu while bringing up three daughters, who made a picture book about what it means to raise animals for meat. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e4f1aa44-9b4c-4720-9b7f-f728fbd144be) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noaZJTr_ZfI
- **2024-12-05**, Traditional Sake Brewing Joins UNESCO: Japan's 23 Intangible Heritage Entries. Nippon TV explainer marking the December 2024 UNESCO inscription of Japanese traditional sake and shochu brewing, and how intangible heritage differs from World Heritage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/4e21cbdd-2a2a-4f44-8e46-3a9b88712fb3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7eW0qZNDFs
- **2024-12-08**, Traditional Sake Brewing Inscribed by UNESCO: Ishikawa Responds. Hokuriku Asahi feature on the December 2024 UNESCO listing, with reaction from Noto breweries still damaged by the New Year's Day earthquake and from brewers in their twenties. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8f94ed28-880f-4445-b365-e1b90d55e40e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsJTltEmF-k
- **2024-12-13**, The Pro Gamer Who Grew Up in a Temple. TBS profiles a Toyama-born professional player who placed third at an esports World Cup in 2024, and the economics of making a living from competitive play in Japan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d840e6e6-0c42-4a09-a7a0-64a5ec30289e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6cJFqsE7vA
- **2024-12-27**, Prewar suits: 1920s and 1930s tailoring examined. A Tokyo tailor examines original 1920s and 1930s suits, the era in which Western tailoring settled into Japanese men's dress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/0cb83540-0e86-4dc7-a369-b20b54ad32cb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsJnmTzyfqs
### 2025
- **2025-01-06**, 560 Years of Ikenobo: The Next Iemoto on Ikebana Today. Interview with Ikenobo Senko on the school's history since the Muromachi period, the aesthetics of empty space and scarcity, and spreading ikebana abroad. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c8d1baf7-f9d4-4e22-a335-b24c219464df) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwR8e61qLUg
- **2025-01-10**, One Kilogram a Day: Stone-Milled Matcha. Factory visit to Shogyokuen, where vintage granite mills grind tencha into matcha at roughly one kilogram per mill per day, showing the whole production line. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/43348ae1-d327-46a8-9990-5e2ade7b6639) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieYwfwBeHyU
- **2025-01-16**, Nintendo Switch 2 - First Look. Nintendo's Japanese channel publishes the first teaser for the Switch 2 in January 2025, the company's first new home console since 2017. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/736a6bca-5bed-467b-bba5-1cb726c181ec) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1CbhpKC6SE
- **2025-01-20**, Traditional Japanese Sake Brewing. National Tax Agency film on the UNESCO-listed traditional brewing of sake, shochu, awamori and mirin, covering steaming, koji making and the parallel multiple fermentation unique to Japan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b0cc910e-5c34-47aa-af5c-4b218a4a4645) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BwJ5ZiiPfY
- **2025-01-31**, Foreign workers in Japan pass 2.3 million, a record. TV Asahi on Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare figures showing 2,302,587 foreign workers as of October 2024, with Vietnam the largest nationality and skilled-visa categories the largest status group for the first time. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/4bd87ae4-5f64-4ae6-9c66-65464c860cf2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9iIysVkMdU
- **2025-02-01**, The Changing Convenience-Store Onigiri. TBS report from an onigiri factory on how konbini rice balls have shifted away from the hand-rolled nori format toward heavily filled and nori-free shapes, and why. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/fb6beda0-32b1-4f61-b797-de60fcf2c639) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O89d2ekWpE0
- **2025-02-02**, Kiyomizu: Cycle of Blessings. Kiyomizu-dera's own documentary, built from roughly ten years of archive footage, on what a Buddhist temple offers people now, narrated around the head priest's words. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b09fb20b-31ad-44e3-a6b8-9e181f6b9fcf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebdBXi99vDU
- **2025-02-09**, CNBC: how Uniqlo won over North America. CNBC on Fast Retailing, now the world's second largest apparel retailer after Inditex, and the minimal functional design behind Uniqlo's global expansion. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/871e0d76-2035-491c-bdb6-e1f5a55a67f1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p18BzD5Fs9E
- **2025-02-14**, Issey Miyake Spring/Summer 2025 fashion film. Wallpaper\* presentation of the Issey Miyake S/S 2025 collection by Satoshi Kondo, head of the label's womenswear since Miyake's death. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/04ca1ed9-f0d6-49b2-bfae-284515ead8b0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-ubS7NVflg
- **2025-02-14**, Exploring Japanese Film History: Shintoho and Kindai Eiga Kyokai. The National Film Archive of Japan introduces its 2025 exhibition tracing Shintoho, Kokusai Hoei and the Kindai Eiga Kyokai, the smaller companies outside the big five. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a4f81ef2-c01f-4795-8b80-aef56fdd5194) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08k4pCIU_6A
- **2025-02-18**, Ramenheads: Inside the Obsession of Japan's Ramen Masters. Feature documentary following Osamu Tomita, repeatedly voted Japan's top ramen chef, through daily prep and the tsukemen craft. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a5c27109-92a7-42d7-8865-73860a4281cc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq9n1PJkoJ8
- **2025-02-21**, Aizu folk song meets wadaiko. A collaboration between Aizu min'yo singers and taiko drummers performed at Bandaisan Onsen Hotel on 21 February 2025, closing with the Aizu Bandaisan dance. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/cfcb8390-285b-49b5-98a0-0f7af28444e8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYUqPV14j1s
- **2025-02-27**, Reuters: ageing Japan turns to AI robots for elder care. Reuters on the AIREC care robot and the search for technological answers to a severe shortage of care workers as the working-age population shrinks. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/665eb526-e377-42e7-8b21-708f9feb4674) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ochuq--Agoc
- **2025-02-28**, Al Jazeera: nursing robots pitched to fill Japan's care gap. Al Jazeera on AI-powered nursing robots proposed for elderly care in Japan, and the questions of integration and public acceptance that remain. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9a48939a-8397-421d-886c-edd2da535886) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa3H6BCaweQ
- **2025-03-09**, Bunka Fashion College students show at Tokyo fashion week. Bunka Fashion College, the school that trained Kenzo, Yohji Yamamoto and Junya Watanabe, presents its selected students' 'individual' collection at Laforet Harajuku on 9 March 2025, its first appearance at Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/81ed4b34-9c8b-4b28-a105-ab395db1493d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlAQ61pWHr4
- **2025-03-24**, Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo A/W 2025: HYKE, tokio, KEISUKEYOSHIDA. Street-style photographer Rei Shito's report from the autumn/winter 2025 Tokyo shows, covering HYKE, tokio and KEISUKEYOSHIDA. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/59bb0488-d236-4157-a4da-e79446151e52) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ryTxOHAmk
- **2025-03-28**, HARUNOBUMURATA autumn/winter 2025 at Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo. Full runway film from the official Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo channel for the A/W 2025 season, the main platform for Japanese designers showing at home. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3f75effc-37b1-4847-bfea-5fb8ac669c29) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiobaggxurs
- **2025-04-02**, Zelda on Switch 2 - Upgrade Showcase. Nintendo shows the Switch 2 editions of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, presented at the April 2025 Switch 2 Direct. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/44354fdf-1455-4642-bfad-3ef2cadc49cb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV8vqNt71hM
- **2025-04-02**, Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2. Nintendo's full April 2025 presentation revealing the Switch 2 hardware, its GameChat features and launch line-up, the successor to the best-selling Switch. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c0282625-0f90-4468-b112-b63f56b470ee) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrTVeYm4iIM
- **2025-04-02**, Noh: Miwa (Hakushiki Kamikagura). Kamakura Noh Butai performance of Miwa in the rare Hakushiki Kamikagura variant, with Kanta Nakamori as the Miwa deity and Nomura Mansai in the kyogen. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c1bdf3d8-4485-417a-90d8-76eb88e8f2f3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE-Aq9MJ3sY
- **2025-04-05**, Why did a war nobody wanted begin? The Second Sino-Japanese War. Gakushuin University professor Toshikazu Inoue, a Showa historian, on why the war with China from 1937 expanded despite no clear party having sought it. Published by Kodansha. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/65258fb7-dbfe-4586-a71f-550acad370c3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCQjdfU3ELQ
- **2025-04-06**, Living in Wajima Lacquer. Pola Foundation technical record of Wajima-nuri, made as a complete document of the craft's Important Intangible Cultural Property technique, down to the sound of the brush in the silent finishing room. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1ab84846-2eb2-4e95-a5c9-bc8ddf31b0e0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNK5audo7Cc
- **2025-04-08**, Kyoto in cherry blossom season: the state of overtourism. Yomiuri TV report on trespassing, waste and arrests around Kyoto's tourist sites during the 2025 blossom season, and the measures the city is taking. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/7d4e622f-d5e6-4e6d-8412-063a786f29b8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4MKpUQDWMM
- **2025-04-18**, Ask the Demon: Talk on Nishioka's Testament. Release talk for the documentary Oni ni Kike about miyadaiku Tsunekazu Nishioka, with director Yuji Yamazaki and Azby Brown of the Kanazawa Institute of Technology. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/13bb2fc6-79a3-41bf-9ac6-cb0b52098f38) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C13JPrUnXLk
- **2025-04-21**, Wood Reborn: The Woodturning of Ryozo Kawakita. Pola Foundation record film following Ryozo Kawakita, the first woodturner designated a Living National Treasure, over eight months making a zelkova serving vessel at Yamanaka, Ishikawa. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/020f359a-846a-40dd-ac3e-c81461240520) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfWApFxU2DE
- **2025-04-27**, The World of Keisuke Serizawa. Pola Foundation film on the stencil dyer Keisuke Serizawa, whose direction came from mingei leader Soetsu Yanagi and from Okinawan bingata, spanning textiles, book design and everyday objects. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3f89c202-190d-4c9c-a629-aff627dafb23) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS05o4l8orI
- **2025-05-01**, Hikaru Utada on Science Fiction, touring and fame. Extended Apple Music interview with Zane Lowe recorded in Tokyo, covering Utada's career from teenage stardom in 1999 onwards. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d95fdd0f-1099-47cb-b276-48fbc16ded4c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdpIcZC9ag
- **2025-05-11**, Kanda Matsuri 2025: A Hundred Mikoshi Enter the Shrine. 4K record of the miyairi day, when around 100 neighbourhood mikoshi from 108 parish associations are carried into Kanda Myojin, closing one of Japan's three great festivals. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/31798253-c1bc-41f1-a413-9ba917326d99) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chvg7I386xw
- **2025-05-12**, The Legendary Miyadaiku Tsunekazu Nishioka. Profile of Tsunekazu Nishioka, the last hereditary temple carpenter of Horyuji, who led the dismantling and reassembly of the world's oldest wooden buildings and rebuilt Yakushiji's West Pagoda. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8bb9c1f5-8824-4482-8ff7-316c262bd14c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj9TAUWEM2E
- **2025-05-13**, Sent to the front at fifteen: a last testimony from Okinawa. Ryukyu Broadcasting's interview with Jitsukichi Furugen, 95, mobilised into the Battle of Okinawa at fifteen, recorded for the 80th anniversary of the war's end. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/be9438c5-d864-4e20-84d1-8469bd46d571) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQqU_Yixuio
- **2025-05-14**, Takahata on Grave of the Fireflies, as It Reaches Streaming. Asahi Shimbun revisits Isao Takahata's own words on Grave of the Fireflies as the 1988 film becomes the first Ghibli title streamed in Japan, in the 80th year after the war. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/01324457-7262-4f3a-b296-ee5b84e900b3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtaRpgofy8o
- **2025-05-14**, Hikaru Utada performs First Love live on THE FIRST TAKE. Utada returns to the one-take performance channel to sing First Love with arranger Kei Kono on piano, 26 years after its release; the album still holds the Japanese sales record. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/7b357a0b-0c91-4012-a4f5-341083f34755) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBUV7dxGhno
- **2025-05-14**, Practice: The Seven Halls and Zen Training at Eiheiji. Official Eiheiji temple film on the seven-hall monastic compound and the daily discipline of Soto Zen practice within it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c7fd2d07-6c49-4c36-a878-007ffa6da63f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEw6t1b6zu4
- **2025-05-18**, 360 years of the suit, with fashion historian Kaori Nakano. Fashion historian Kaori Nakano on the origins of the suit and its long path to the garment worn in Japanese offices today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ff1d14c3-c433-4937-b74c-22862ff05b86) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdCk6ICCe9g
- **2025-05-24**, The Odyssey Project: Building a Japanese Game Museum. Nippon TV follows French collector Ludovic, owner of thousands of rare items including the first home consoles, as he works toward founding a video-game museum in Japan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/7a8b5033-4389-48a9-9933-08cf93cb1b3a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbNsp2MkOvI
- **2025-05-28**, Making the Action of Moonrise at WIT Studio. Netflix shows how WIT Studio built the lunar action sequences of Moonrise, the series written by Fullmetal Alchemist's Hiromu Arakawa. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/0b2c1ac2-93d8-43b2-ac89-910cee81e262) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F602YaOA7A
- **2025-05-31**, Kanazawa Engiwa Gold Leaf: A UNESCO-Recognised Technique. Kanazawa City film on engiwa gold leaf, beaten between sheets of specially treated washi, inscribed by UNESCO as an intangible heritage technique. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/51893eb4-a10e-4d28-82e1-4c1f1985d874) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE28fFeV7go
- **2025-06-05**, A Campaign to List Ekiben as Intangible Cultural Property. Hiroshima TV report on the push to register the station bento as an intangible cultural property, laying out what makes the form distinctive. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/4dd65144-d250-45b0-81cc-a0228d6a5e03) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8grS9a2Za6s
- **2025-06-06**, What Happens to the Old Shrine: Ise's Rebuilding Every 20 Years. Tokai TV report on the Shikinen Sengu, a 1,300-year-old cycle begun in 690 in which the shrine buildings are entirely rebuilt over eight years, and on where the dismantled timber goes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/dd6f22af-1149-4bf2-8edc-7f0917200692) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz1fAiTBMYQ
- **2025-06-10**, An 8mm tape from Kobe, surfaced 30 years later. Sun TV on newly found 8mm video shot by a 14-year-old who cycled into the disaster zone on 17 January 1995; the earthquake killed 6,434 people. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/aa94771a-fdc0-4435-a95b-1df14d069dc7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkpqYSpAAmk
- **2025-06-11**, How the suit reached Japan and became the working uniform. Professor Risho Tanaka of Bunka Gakuen University's fashion sociology department traces the suit in Japan from the end of the Edo period through Meiji Westernisation to the modern salaryman. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c580700b-fe9c-4c09-bea0-ac57227fa937) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezTOlVKEQcc
- **2025-06-14**, Rintaro at 84: Working with Tezuka on Astro Boy. Nippon TV interviews director Rintaro, who worked alongside Osamu Tezuka on the original Astro Boy, after he became the oldest ever recipient of the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in June 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/2fbbd1ce-1e0d-44a2-82c0-47da095f944b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBmakVmVo6o
- **2025**, Bangladesh Pavilion at Expo 2025. Osaka Expo 2025 pavilion. Bangladesh Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Kansai, Japan [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/dfdde0e8-7cc9-4b13-b8ca-7897e88fbd07) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bangladesh_Pavilion_at_Expo_2025.jpg
- **2025**, Czech Pavilion Expo 2025. Osaka Expo 2025 pavilion. Osaka Kansai Expo 2025 大阪・関西万博 by nakashi [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c7a26f16-50e5-4306-bf83-440868a8abfb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Czech_Pavilion_Expo_2025.jpg
- **2025**, Expo 2025 Czech Republic Pavilion 02. Osaka Expo 2025 pavilion. Expo 2025 Czech Republic Pavilion [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/973e245f-3282-444d-9947-cb3cbe103529) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Expo_2025_Czech_Republic_Pavilion_02.JPG
- **2025**, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater - Launch Trailer. Konami's launch trailer for the 2025 remake of Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, originally released in 2004. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f7578d6d-aae5-479f-a447-ca4266a8e247) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajh3YHJ6baI
- **2025**, Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Chapter One - Main Trailer. Aniplex's official trailer for the ufotable-animated Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Chapter One, released in Japan on 18 July 2025 and one of the highest-grossing anime films ever made. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f0a7ce21-db48-4aac-ad61-b3318a1f6fea) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfIXXgqxVn8
- **2025**, 2025년 10월 19일에 일요일에 촬영한 도다이지 입구. Tōdai-ji. 도다이지 입구와 거기에 있는 사슴들의 모습 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d56de198-71c2-4ccf-8a08-f6775da4de47) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2025%EB%85%84_10%EC%9B%94_19%EC%9D%BC%EC%97%90_%EC%9D%BC%EC%9A%94%EC%9D%BC%EC%97%90_%EC%B4%AC%EC%98%81%ED%95%9C_%EB%8F%84%EB%8B%A4%EC%9D%B4%EC%A7%80_%EC%9E%85%EA%B5%AC.jpg
- **2025**, U S Marines in Henoko Village’s Okinawan Sumo Competition (9569412). sumo wrestlers bout tournament photograph. U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Inera Glover, an administrative specialist with 4th Combat Logistics Battalion, 4th Combat Logistics Regiment, receives awards after winning a woman’s bout during an Okinawan Sumo tournament in Henoko, Okinawa, Japan, July 5, 20 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/bfa303bf-2ce0-43f2-bc16-5820813c4881) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U_S_Marines_in_Henoko_Village%E2%80%99s_Okinawan_Sumo_Competition_(9569412).jpg
- **2025**, Bologna - Palazzo Poggi 3468. Tsuba. The Museo di Palazzo Poggi in Bologna, Italy. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ac406efa-3a81-4088-aefc-b66eaff278a0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bologna_-_Palazzo_Poggi_3468.jpg
- **2025-06-27**, Seven Samurai in New 4K - Cinema Festival Trailer. Trailer for the new 4K remaster of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai screened at Japan's Asa Ju-ji no Eigasai revival festival, where it remains the highest-ranked Japanese film. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/18afb4f1-85b5-4561-88c0-8b8a611ecc2e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z17CROP3wQ
- **2025-07-01**, Mount Fuji opens with a 4,000-yen fee and a daily climber cap. TV Asahi on the 2025 opening of the Yamanashi trail, where the toll doubled from 2,000 to 4,000 yen to match Shizuoka and climbers were capped at 4,000 a day, with prefectural rangers checking for inadequate clothing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/45f327b1-20a8-4022-bed5-8783812917d7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBI0qesPZM0
- **2025-07-08**, Building Porco Rosso's Savoia S.21 in Wood. Ghibli Park's official series visits the Ghibli three-dimensional models exhibition, where craftsman Hiroshi Ihara explains constructing Porco Rosso's red seaplane as a wooden artwork. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ad32f962-51dd-4eef-89af-1e8699f44f2f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxP38yASoZs
- **2025-07-18**, Restoring the First-Generation Sony Walkman. Repair engineer opens up the original TPS-L2 Walkman family, released in 1979, explaining the birth of the product and its internal design. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5ca5aad2-be05-4bca-8c54-e4cd86d494f0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xyw4efZwqo
- **2025-07-22**, Pokémon Presents, July 2025. The Pokémon Company's official July 2025 presentation, announcing Pokémon LEGENDS Z-A and other titles from the franchise Game Freak began in 1996. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3e1e054e-ca05-42e6-b610-687e0f6d22b3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQd17AR3Ej0
- **2025-08-01**, Tourists block the level crossing at Fushimi Inari, stranding ambulances. TV Asahi report on the railway crossing beside Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto, where crowds of visitors leave people trapped as barriers descend and emergency vehicles unable to pass. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/90ea678a-64a8-4807-a2d9-d845ea48a031) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JRwsKZoqYY
- **2025-08-04**, What happened at Hiroshima: BBC World Service, 80 years on. BBC World Service documentary for the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, built on testimony from hibakusha, the only people ever to have survived a nuclear attack. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/92beb7d2-ae8e-416d-8652-8758c362e1b0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxozxj03l18
- **2025-08-20**, Inside the Weekly Shonen Jump Editorial Office: A First Manga Pitch. Shueisha's official Jump channel films an aspiring mangaka's first editorial meeting, showing how Jump editors critique worldbuilding, protagonist type and readability. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c2ec4bba-9050-432a-bb7e-cd7163eb0085) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1EZNVV7css
- **2025-08-21**, New Matcha Shops Open as National Supply Runs Short. Nihonkai TV report from San'in on a new matcha specialist opening even as tea runs short and prices climb nationally. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9db3bf47-ddfd-46ee-a583-0b9c4d44019d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTVk4CODmqU
- **2025-08-23**, A history of Lolita fashion. Japanese-language history of Lolita, tracing how the style emerged from Japanese kawaii culture and split into its many sub-genres. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3b9de0b3-da68-4361-950f-6617510ce7bb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OFqet5uceQ
- **2025-08-24**, Rapidus and Japan's bet on 2nm chips. Semiconductor analyst Satoshi Oyama on Rapidus, the state-backed venture that has taken 1.72 trillion yen in government support to build 2-nanometre production in Japan, and whether it can challenge TSMC. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9d7ec337-6149-4df0-937a-44374e286f0d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okeV8zWLYAE
- **2025-08-29**, Making The Summer Hikaru Died: The Recording Booth. KADOKAWA's making-of documentary takes cameras into the voice recording of The Summer Hikaru Died, including the dialect coaching central to the series. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c3af5fd8-6c69-4b9f-aada-eaff0fe1aabc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQb-ZZu2ksg
- **2025-09-05**, Gion Sasaki: Six Consecutive Michelin Three-Star Years. MBS film on Hiroshi Sasaki's Kyoto counter, where eight apprentices support a service staged as a performance around the seasonal ingredients. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/58492be2-f3f8-41eb-afc3-30ec558cd590) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YKU_vvUhl8
- **2025-09-10**, Yohji Yamamoto in conversation with Tim Blanks, at 80. System magazine's extended interview, filmed in 2024, in which Yamamoto tells Tim Blanks 'I can't change the world, but maybe I can change the idea of beauty.' [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/da99679c-c55d-4795-b025-ab8d8a188de1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6RZiH5i0SM
- **2025-09-13**, A record 3.67 million foreign residents: what they do and what they earn. TBS survey of foreign residents in Japan, now at a record 3.67 million, from rickshaw pullers to animators, set against a 2024 average monthly wage of about 330,000 yen. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/971fbd5a-0f35-4056-b0f3-7ee9ac671802) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ktqfqiMxkU
- **2025-09-22**, OD - Kojima Productions Teaser. Kojima Productions' teaser for OD, Hideo Kojima's horror project developed with Xbox Game Studios and Jordan Peele, unveiled in 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b53904b6-1956-4ef0-95ff-bbf6c037bb63) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHCqxLtwy5g
- **2025-09-24**, Kokuho and What Changed in Japanese Cinema. Asahi Shimbun analyses the exceptional 2025 run of Lee Sang-il's Kokuho, a nearly three-hour kabuki drama that broke the 22-year record for live-action Japanese box office, and the role word-of-mouth on social media played. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a1ee6a72-f90c-450f-9e81-0bbb5196457e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKCDFy5wC8k
- **2025-09-26**, Newsweek Japan: after the 2nm prototype, can Rapidus mass-produce?. Economic commentator Keiichi Kaya on Rapidus's July prototype of a 2-nanometre transistor, its 2027 mass-production target, and why Japan's earlier semiconductor dominance collapsed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/570ab75d-2b2d-4876-89b3-a33b9e0ba25f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfKJnvcJC-4
- **2025-09-26**, Tokyo Game Show 2025 Opens at Makuhari. Nippon TV reports from the opening of Tokyo Game Show 2025, where Japanese developers of all sizes courted overseas as well as domestic markets. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/605ac000-7a6e-4f45-86c3-93adaf7c1f3f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpTuIojUTJE
- **2025-09-30**, The foreign staff who ran the Expo pavilions. ABC TV follows three foreign staff working at Expo 2025 Osaka, where 158 countries and regions took part, on their life in Japan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3ef94876-1c95-4380-8885-239d4ddc47ff) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kf0bTpfI3s
- **2025-09-30**, Gunpei Yokoi in 1980 and the Birth of Game & Watch. How Nintendo, deep in debt in 1980, was saved by Yokoi's handheld Game & Watch, reportedly conceived from watching a commuter play with a calculator on the Shinkansen. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/853c2029-566d-4224-910a-b7932de5317b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPzte_3jDgY
- **2025-10-03**, Princess Mononoke in 4K IMAX. Toho's trailer for the IMAX run of the Ghibli-supervised 4K remaster of Princess Mononoke, which drew 14.2 million admissions and 19.3 billion yen on its 1997 release. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d78aeb5c-b7c5-4536-81ad-c6c28ca181c7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fAfrNvIwMk
- **2025-10-08**, School trips abandon Kyoto after 13 years at number one. Kansai TV report on Japanese schools moving their annual trips away from Kyoto, the top destination for 13 consecutive years, because of crowding and rising prices. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/19b9c309-43f1-4b08-a3b0-a7a11d321c31) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY-1xXW3Gcc
- **2025-10-08**, Tokyo Game Show and the Return of PC Gaming in Japan. PC Gamer reports from Tokyo Game Show 2025 with ex-Sega developer Jake Kazdal on why PC has re-emerged as a platform in a historically console-dominated market. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/becf65c6-452b-4ace-8e3e-f3831ae818ec) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMIdNIWhZGY
- **2025-10-11**, A hundred years of jazz in Yokohama and the Chigusa kissaten. TV Kanagawa feature on Yokohama's jazz century, including the history of Chigusa, the legendary jazz kissa that became a model for Japan's listening bars. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a5f9124e-d869-486c-8165-e1842436c0d4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_ijgNySCyw
- **2025-10-13**, 184 days of Expo 2025 Osaka, as the cameras saw it. Yomiuri TV retrospective on the Osaka-Kansai Expo, the first world's fair in Osaka in 55 years, on its closing weekend. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/230038b1-056a-41e7-93d1-e5a8e4af340b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvsg33_HN8M
- **2025-10-21**, Sanae Takaichi's first press conference as prime minister. Asahi Shimbun's uncut broadcast of Sanae Takaichi's press conference on 21 October 2025 after becoming Japan's first female prime minister. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/69d7e842-d609-4bd9-9f88-800504e585b5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK_UGOQvY0w
- **2025-10-22**, Old-Style Sushi Shops of Edo: Three Generations Behind the Counter. Nippon TV feature compilation on long-running Tokyo sushi and tempura counters, including a 70-year-old shop run by three generations and a 233-year-old soba house. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5820346a-9d8f-41cb-9f77-39d95e990dc7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P4qK7SO9M4
- **2025-10-24**, Takaichi's first policy speech to the Diet. Uncut broadcast of Prime Minister Takaichi's first policy address on 24 October 2025, covering inflation, growth, security document revisions and population and foreigner policy. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/954d0311-b39e-4649-b8c4-f1a582bc1e8b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU6DiZI2a0c
- **2025-10-27**, The Toji Road: Kusatsu to Shima with Ichikawa Danjuro. Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro, appointed onsen culture ambassador, retraces the Edo-period cure route from Kusatsu through Sawatari to Shima, where bathers went for the finishing waters. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/2c84a688-1bed-495f-9377-170cb8e1e3db) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9I9BGWQW9Y
- **2025-10-28**, Ninety Years of Okinawan Traditional Karate. Okinawa TV report tracing the ninety-year arc of traditional Okinawan karate and what the founding generation intended for it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5bd562aa-c217-46e4-ad83-c926baf69125) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMxSeTNIyRI
- **2025-10-30**, The first cabinet-level meeting on bear attacks. TV Asahi reports from the Diet press building on the first ministerial-level meeting on bear attacks, elevated from an interagency meeting on Prime Minister Takaichi's instruction as casualties mounted. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/0c87977e-d508-4f34-b037-d28417586cd0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftfS_eeEyzY
- **2025-11-04**, Chanko: The Food That Builds Sumo Wrestlers. Fukuoka TNC investigation into chanko-nabe, the communal stew each sumo stable makes its own, from a milk-based version to the chicken-miso pot credited with a yokozuna's strength. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b968c4c0-bf2a-4f3b-bbb1-e66806608fd7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws81IrCIrw8
- **2025-11-05**, Bears appear across Japan, including at tourist sites. TV Asahi on bear sightings spreading nationwide in autumn 2025, including at popular tourist spots and one field where eleven bears appeared at once. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/099f71ec-dccc-49e8-b98f-a1819c694d91) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR1SEJDGe84
- **2025-11-06**, The Global Matcha Boom Reaches Sencha. KBC report from the Yame tea district of Fukuoka on how overseas matcha demand has driven prices up and begun squeezing ordinary green tea supply. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/01ff599f-9f69-4b51-97ab-5e814e38b8e8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZh-PgbL4Lg
- **2025-11-07**, Inside Bones Film: Making the Anime Gachiakuta. Prime Video Japan documents production at Bones Film on the 2025 series Gachiakuta, roughly 10,000 drawings per episode across a three-year production. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8682c390-f867-456a-b7de-1608b3643fd7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSdoT3nMqqY
- **2025-11-09**, The Kamimukae Rite and Dragon-Serpent Worship at Izumo. Shinto priest of Katsuragi Mitoshi Jinja explains the kamimukae rite that opens the Kamiari festival and the ryujashin serpent deity welcomed ashore at Inasa beach. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/afef74f8-8dc7-4636-8099-d7548e797f2a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-6in02wnYA
- **2025-11-11**, State of Play Japan: Games Made in Japan and Asia. Sony devotes a special State of Play, hosted by voice actor Yuki Kaji, to more than forty minutes of games made in Japan and Asia, from major series to indie titles. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/4686d2e9-fca6-4d24-b6b2-031bba9c6c25) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-tsdI_jD6w
- **2025-11-11**, Kiyoshi Kurosawa on Violence in Cloud. Criterion interviews Kiyoshi Kurosawa about how he stages violence in Cloud (2024), his thriller about an online reseller pursued by strangers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/89d03ad6-62ee-408c-ad08-dc9c10fe7d1c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1mVMpi_RUc
- **2025-11-11**, Gig shift workers and monitoring sensors in Japanese care homes. Nippon TV on how care facilities are covering staff shortages with two-hour spot workers and reducing night-shift load with monitoring sensors. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ec0b6adf-1a0f-4b72-9046-a32e10b53c74) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naw2sBcgQIU
- **2025-11-13**, The government adopts a bear countermeasures package. Nippon TV on the cabinet-level package to cull and capture bears near settlements and reduce populations around residential areas, staged as emergency, short and medium-term measures. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a67c41ca-1656-4386-a0a6-8c0859ddae69) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEIOuLvA3l8
- **2025-11-21**, Shoko Kanazawa at Forty. Yomiuri TV interview with the calligrapher now aged forty, on how she came to be called a genius and on the decision she has reached about her work. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ce0887b8-bf2f-4630-9895-02966571d810) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCqbQDPZAi4
- **2025-11-25**, Takaichi asks unions and business for wage rises above inflation. Nippon TV on Prime Minister Takaichi's first government-labour-management meeting, calling for shunto wage rises that outpace price increases. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1b299f42-29a7-4a43-92c4-c42578c9de3f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJLFOBK8za0
- **2025-11-29**, Tsuburaya Productions: 35 Years of Special Effects. A subtitled Japanese documentary on Tsuburaya Productions, founded by Eiji Tsuburaya, and the practical tokusatsu craft, miniatures, suits and optical work, behind Godzilla and Ultraman. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/71a8d8bb-dbc5-494f-9b87-c50d378f58c8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udo5ryuM-Jo
- **2025-12-01**, A 78-year-old home helper caring for an 85-year-old. TBS report from Unnan, Shimane, where 40 percent of residents are over 65, following a 78-year-old home care worker; bankruptcies among care providers hit a record the previous year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6883b047-501a-49f1-b986-ab613599045f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_w03HGfiO4
- **2025-12-04**, Inside the Gachiakuta Recording Session. Anime Times films the voice recording for Gachiakuta, showing the moment performances are laid over finished battle animation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/bb4f3a14-b94d-4af5-a09f-9e88ae025e5e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3kIUxNLQp0
- **2025-12-05**, Did the Mount Fuji entry restrictions work?. Shizuoka Daiichi TV on the joint Shizuoka-Yamanashi council's report, which concluded the entry restrictions had a visible effect in curbing bullet climbing and severe crowding. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a80c5757-3ffd-43b6-82e0-9abda8ff3230) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at0TMOCkRbM
- **2025-12-05**, Kodo play Shake in the harbour at Ogi, Sado Island. Vincent Moon films Kodo at close quarters at the end of a public performance in the small harbour of Ogi on Sado Island, the ensemble's home. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/ff72c6dd-2448-4b3c-b245-d8a0b2daeb4f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCMdPgPyj6g
- **2025-12-06**, Saving Selvedge: a raw denim documentary in Japan. Feature-length documentary on Japanese raw selvedge denim and menswear craft, filmed on location with Japanese makers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f9876cba-23c8-40ea-abdb-8dc4c2704cf5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XKwag7xr-M
- **2025-12-09**, A New Shochu Distillery in a Closed School, Kagoshima. KTS report a year after the UNESCO listing on Ushinone Distillery, opened in a disused middle-school gym, and on the century-old wooden pot stills still being built in Kagoshima. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1796db63-b906-4bfd-8f88-17b098325f3a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J-580QlPj0
- **2025-12-17**, Anime Journalist Tadashi Sudo on the State of the Industry in 2025. Analyst Tadashi Sudo reviews the Japanese anime industry's 2025, production volumes, streaming money, and the labour bottleneck, in a long-form industry programme. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/2dd011d0-065d-46bb-97b2-8c169c1f4dff) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZUpMfilG1g
- **2025-12-19**, Imperial War Museums on the wartime 'comfort station' system. IWM curator James Bulgin explains the system of sexual trafficking across the Japanese Empire during the Second World War, from the museum's Unsilenced exhibition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/370c58a4-f0fa-437e-8611-4a4bf4ff2758) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-45mPI9Qro
- **2025-12-25**, Arcade Archiver: The Space Invaders Special. Hamster Corporation's official preservation programme devotes a marathon episode to Space Invaders, covering the 1978 original's hardware, variants and its re-release on modern consoles. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/89229bae-591d-41ba-b826-8f025f336ca5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFuh98IHqVs
- **2025-12-26**, Forging Blue-Bright Steel: Swordsmith Kawachi Kunihira. Nara Prefecture intangible-heritage film archive record of Michio Kawachi (smith name Kunihira), holder of the nationally designated Important Intangible Cultural Property for Japanese sword-making technique. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/2e0a4551-be59-4d51-a68a-71d83b8139e1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQKsm9bZP-o
### 2026
- **2026-01-04**, Donkey Kong on Original 1981 Arcade Hardware. An original Nintendo of America TKG-3 arcade board is powered up and captured directly, showing Shigeru Miyamoto's 1981 Donkey Kong, Mario's first appearance, in its export configuration. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/59f435e4-7f0d-4657-b356-69f8afdc5b24) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgbFDZIIT3I
- **2026-01-13**, Sen Soshitsu XVI on the Place of Tea Today. Interview at Konnichian in Kyoto with the sixteenth Urasenke grand master, descendant of Sen no Rikyu, on calligraphy, flowers, incense, food and architecture converging in chanoyu, and on wa-kei-sei-jaku. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f60ab30b-3b2a-4009-875e-93eb04458066) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h00olAjX5kM
- **2026-01-16**, Bloomberg: why Japan's economy is at a tipping point. After thirty years of near-flat prices, a weak yen has changed the picture; Bloomberg looks at how consumers and firms are adjusting under Takaichi's new government. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/69b91e8e-a652-47b4-aad3-039a0cb37979) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_LlRX299fQ
- **2026-01-21**, Life sentence for Shinzo Abe's killer. BBC News on Tetsuya Yamagami's life sentence for the 2022 murder of Shinzo Abe, and the divided Japanese public opinion over the punishment. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c61c0bd0-883e-4745-9981-b2fdfe7756d3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZu8R3HDOls
- **2026-01-23**, Sanuki Udon Taught by a Kagawa Craftsman. JA Kagawa demonstration of hand-made udon from flour, salt and water alone, including the foot-treading stage and the new Sanuki no Yume 2023 wheat cultivar bred for udon. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8e6d2012-16bd-47a5-9607-90b0024db81c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEFIaXQbTzE
- **2026-01-24**, Dragon Ball at 40 - Toei Animation Special Film. Toei Animation's 40th-anniversary film animates Akira Toriyama's own colour illustrations, preserving the texture and palette of his original artwork. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3d3f368f-65c3-40e6-979a-c731e8edf90c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRJS0P1GwC4
- **2026-01-26**, Matcha Bubble: Gion Tsujiri Drops 'Uji Tea' From Its Logo. Kansai TV investigation into the matcha shortage, in which the historic Kyoto tea house removed Uji-cha from its logo as producers field orders for 100kg lots and prices double. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6b56bf54-f3fa-415f-82ae-788596ce3fd6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_igKHZIEbjQ
- **2026-02-13**, Okayama revises its Nankai Trough projections for the first time in 13 years. Okayama Prefecture's revised estimate, its first since 2013, raises the worst-case death toll by 667 to 3,778, with tsunami deaths rising as building-collapse deaths fall. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c8a3ab1c-5a57-450c-8cb5-e09e69d35f8a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSz4uGIZbHY
- **2026-02-16**, Japan's GDP returns to growth, barely. TV Asahi on October-December GDP growth of 0.1 percent, the first rise in two quarters, with an analyst warning the recovery may be weaker than assumed as households cut back on food and eating out. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/2f64e727-6244-4b27-9fff-6ffc3eb137aa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AU0MirSrlE
- **2026-02-17**, Kobe's national-first push against abandoned houses. Sun TV report on Kobe's akiya measures, ahead of most Japanese cities, and the fire and refuse risks that neglected houses create for neighbourhoods. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8cbfbf4b-cadb-4b19-b8e5-2cacab711089) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orcAcki48h4
- **2026-02-27**, Kyoto considers two-tier bus fares for residents and tourists. MBS report on Kyoto mayor Matsui's proposal for a resident-priority city bus fare, with analysis from Ritsumeikan University professor Koichi Kondo. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/282d7abe-b9c4-4ecc-8bda-a9f4cf8138b9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UMIOfcqaz4
- **2026-02-27**, The 'Ultimate Ordinary': Why Chan-kei Ramen Draws Queues in a Downturn. Fuji TV documentary segment on the chan-kei ramen boom, built from a development team eating at 1,000 old-guard shops to derive a formula for classic shoyu ramen. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e43822ca-c621-410c-a5af-d53d913e5816) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tHOHbR7iKc
- **2026-02-28**, Who buries the elderly with no family left?. TV Asahi Telementary documentary on Japanese elderly people without relatives, and the men who take on guarantor and after-death administration duties as single-person elderly households approach 10 million. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6a5e65b1-4b50-47ac-b2bb-8609e2fa8408) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMYAOUdkTto
- **2026-03-09**, Generative AI Reaches the Anime Studio Floor. Fuji News Network reports from Tokyo studio DLE, makers of Himitsu Kessha Taka no Tsume, where generative AI has cut a three-week task to four days, and asks what that means for animators. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/04c27eae-5d10-435d-bd88-4fb2cafbbaa9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DiAVnJnCbA
- **2026-03-13**, Inside the Japan Folk Crafts Museum. Tour of the Nihon Mingeikan in Tokyo with Hiroshi Ota of the Japan Folk Crafts Association, covering Yanagi's collection and a Shiko Munakata exhibition, followed by a discussion. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3cf53951-eb2e-4b39-bfc1-e3e6e5dd8581) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLHCt7Led8g
- **2026-03-18**, Toshio Suzuki on Miyazaki at 85. Tokai TV reports producer Toshio Suzuki describing an 85-year-old Hayao Miyazaki as 'oddly energetic' and still very much working, at the unveiling of his Panorama Box pieces. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/53f0ce6e-64fd-4cd1-b55a-56ba9e513cb5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toVUvpwgIrM
- **2026-03-25**, The Nankai Trough megaquake: the government's latest damage projection. Cabinet Office disaster management film setting out the national projection for a maximum-class Nankai Trough earthquake and tsunami, and the measures that would reduce casualties. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/04f61795-6149-4eb2-b8f1-d6582b8732ca) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjlbQiUkDU4
- **2026-03-26**, Nebuta Master Hiroo Takenami Builds Three Floats. Aomori Asahi interview with the seventh-generation Nebuta master taking on three large floats for the first time in thirteen years, and his plans for training successors. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e9bcbe54-5928-42af-874b-6c415d6df1d3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2C_hOjZ428
- **2026-04-09**, Princess Mononoke in 4K - Restoration Trailer. Trailer for the 4K digital remaster of Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke (1997), released on 4K UHD in June 2026, Ghibli's back catalogue entering restoration. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/26c5c8f5-ab2c-473b-8826-7f8a4f23d973) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4R3HIjHJy0
- **2026-04-10**, Tea Farmers in Crisis as Matcha Demand Distorts the Market. Fuji TV report on growers converting sencha fields to tencha for matcha, with farmers calling the boom overheated and the established tea distribution upended. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/62e06645-b8c2-49ea-9be7-d273da6328fb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOk4wt4ELh4
- **2026-04-23**, Samurai: the making of a global icon. British Museum panel chaired by Satona Suzuki of SOAS with historians Oleg Benesch and others, arguing that much of what is popularly believed about the samurai is invented tradition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/31d670e4-fa76-45ff-8a89-06dcb657401b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lHjih82tO4
- **2026-04-30**, A day with a care worker in Niigata. NST Niigata follows a man working at a special nursing home, on the chronic understaffing, added workload and low pay in Japanese care work. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/fc367348-a4bc-4de7-a24a-32886818643c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UlYkDpD6iw
- **2026-05-01**, Ramen Philosophers: Ginger Soy Sauce Ramen in Nagaoka. UX Niigata documentary series episode following Naoto Sato of Ramen Shoga no Umi, a Nagaoka shop working in the regional ginger-shoyu style. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/762a2acd-3980-4427-b22f-72fe1de11fd8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_WKTMzee2E
- **2026-05-08**, CNA Insight: Japan's economy in 2026. CNA documentary noting real wages fell for a fourth consecutive year in 2025 even as the Nikkei hit record highs, and asking whether the recovery is real. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/6b7d8a91-f368-48b8-a157-bcac1fb585ae) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lqklh_o3vg
- **2026-05-08**, The 63rd Ise Shikinen Sengu: The Sacred Timber. Official Ise Jingu film of the opening rites of the 63rd twenty-year rebuilding cycle, including Yamaguchi-sai, the felling ceremony in the Kiso forests and the hauling of the sacred timber. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/781902e2-30ce-463f-b2fa-14a2c0d386be) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPs5W5-lGqw
- **2026-05-09**, Okihiki: Townspeople Haul the Timber to Ise. Chunichi Shimbun film of the first Okihiki processions, in which 72 neighbourhood associations drag the new shrine timber to the Outer and Inner Shrines to cries of enya. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d7a96355-d740-4862-94e9-85e33e79741e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNAnO7h_Bvk
- **2026-05-14**, Three Japanese Films in Competition at Cannes 2026. TBS reports from Cannes as Koji Fukada's film starring Takako Matsu screens in competition, one of three Japanese titles in the 2026 main selection alongside Koreeda and Hamaguchi. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/094a0673-32ad-4190-8647-8f537c828731) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiCTriZzS6I
- **2026-05-16**, Koreeda's New Film Gets Nine Minutes of Applause at Cannes. Nippon TV reports from the official Cannes screening of Hirokazu Koreeda's Palme d'Or contender in May 2026, with lead Haruka Ayase in attendance. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/db9256e2-8375-4f0b-8db1-01a5de44285b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz-joI3FkEw
- **2026-05-17**, A French Blacksmith Keeping Sakai Knives Alive. ABC TV report on the Sakai knife museum drawing overseas visitors and taking over 300 million yen a year, with a French-born smith among those sustaining the trade. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/fa8a9ba9-17f7-4e95-9d6c-6c3c7a48921a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY3aUJFny4o
- **2026-05-19**, Turning akiya empty houses into a local resource. Shizuoka TV on Kakegawa's programme to find uses for vacant houses, as akiya numbers rise nationally with population decline and ageing building stock. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/e115f951-94af-4712-98c0-7b4b9c2f8950) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWZH78DQN6U
- **2026-05-21**, Tokyo bets on 'physical AI' to answer the labour crisis. WION report on the Japanese government's push into AI-powered robotics, framed as a response to a shrinking workforce across healthcare and logistics. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/0e258db7-afea-4789-a761-6e3d7836b059) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHvy8n4izLU
- **2026-05-22**, Bizen Ware: The Challenge of Jun Isezaki. Pola Foundation film on the fifth Bizen potter to be named a Living National Treasure, who argues that tradition is a chain of innovations and Bizen most needs adventure. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b770fa90-bfff-4e53-a59e-644a7a2bf534) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG3wnZJs2qU
- **2026-05-24**, Tao Okamoto Wins Best Actress at Cannes. Nippon TV reports the first Japanese win of the Cannes best-actress prize, awarded to Tao Okamoto and her co-stars for Ryusuke Hamaguchi's latest film in May 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/14f42d0a-4f60-4bfb-9880-a2dfe4cee74f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4yV1gaBrng
- **2026-05-27**, When the Kneader Changes, the Flavour Changes. Full-length profile of Takeshi Murai, an eighteen-year Sanuki udon craftsman at Moriya in Takamatsu, following a working day and his plans for a successor. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/dffe0080-59f3-46ad-8422-4eedab83cf0d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ryadeh_GCs
- **2026-05-30**, Why Every Showa Studio Was Its Own World. An overview of Japan's five-studio system, Toho, Shochiku, Nikkatsu, Daiei and Toei, and how each company produced a distinct film culture rather than merely distinct films. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a55ad494-b2a5-403f-8adc-dc70268f6b94) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef7x1WDTkW0
- **2026-06-02**, PlayStation State of Play, June 2026. Sony's Japanese State of Play broadcast of June 2026, over an hour of announcements and gameplay from studios worldwide including Insomniac's Marvel's Wolverine. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9d5c8357-9198-4e2a-a911-d6a03d8dc277) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhtKO44npvY
- **2026-06-04**, Polished With a Fingerprint: Kyo-nuri Lacquer by Miki Hyoetsu IV. Full process film on Kyoto lacquer, in which the fourth-generation lacquerer builds and burnishes the black ground by hand to produce the characteristic waves of light. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/dac91d07-b7ca-4304-964d-8807f02dabee) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cANem9KdKeM
- **2026-06-12**, The NHK announcer who narrated the tsunami and could not say 'run'. Former NHK announcer Shinichi Takeda and Yuriage storyteller Yuko Tanno revisit 11 March 2011, when he was live on air describing the wave as it came ashore. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/575c1c8d-ed70-4c79-be6b-3a17afdd2100) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2XodI61uzw
- **2026-06-12**, The Ghibli Editor Who Cut Grave of the Fireflies and Totoro. Takeshi Seyama, editor on most Studio Ghibli films, describes editing the 1988 Totoro/Grave of the Fireflies double bill in parallel and the fundamental difference between how Miyazaki and Takahata made films. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/d5372ccc-3e47-46c0-a445-c42e831867a7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdcN9D2Cn04
- **2026**, 2026年 東葉高速鉄道2000系電車. Japan train station commuters modern. This is a Japanese commuter train called the 2000 series. This car is designed in the same way as the 05 series of Japanese subway cars, and there is almost no difference. However, while the 05 series train has customer service equipment tailored to the latest c [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b0f830a3-59f3-41a2-a280-2c310b3ab8e3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2026%E5%B9%B4_%E6%9D%B1%E8%91%89%E9%AB%98%E9%80%9F%E9%89%84%E9%81%932000%E7%B3%BB%E9%9B%BB%E8%BB%8A.jpg
- **2026**, 20260429 Burg Himeji 09, Hyōgo, Japan anagoria. Himeji Castle. Himeji Castle, Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1d906a50-b498-49cc-9838-8618a95fe021) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20260429_Burg_Himeji_09,_Hy%C5%8Dgo,_Japan_anagoria.jpg
- **2026**, 20260427 Goldener Pavillon 03 im Kinkaku-Ji-Tempel, Kyoto, Japan anagoria. Kinkaku-ji. Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/2998affc-f1ae-4b77-90bd-4e84cfba57bb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20260427_Goldener_Pavillon_03_im_Kinkaku-Ji-Tempel,_Kyoto,_Japan_anagoria.jpg
- **2026**, 20260429 Burg Himeji 10, Hyōgo, Japan anagoria. Himeji Castle. Himeji Castle, Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/4065cf8b-206c-48e2-a00e-42ede62ed8d6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20260429_Burg_Himeji_10,_Hy%C5%8Dgo,_Japan_anagoria.jpg
- **2026**, 20260429 Burg Himeji 01, Hyōgo, Japan anagoria. Himeji Castle. Himeji Castle, Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/4a3588ab-90fa-4718-b9cf-2a7f5d3952b7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20260429_Burg_Himeji_01,_Hy%C5%8Dgo,_Japan_anagoria.jpg
- **2026**, 20260429 Burg Himeji 05, Hyōgo, Japan anagoria. Himeji Castle. Himeji Castle, Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5990f42f-692e-4ea0-84e3-143964c86dca) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20260429_Burg_Himeji_05,_Hy%C5%8Dgo,_Japan_anagoria.jpg
- **2026**, 20260429 Burg Himeji 07, Hyōgo, Japan anagoria. Himeji Castle. Himeji Castle, Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/80c45804-0de4-4187-9a26-2fe2747dc162) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20260429_Burg_Himeji_07,_Hy%C5%8Dgo,_Japan_anagoria.jpg
- **2026**, 20260427 Goldener Pavillon 01 im Kinkaku-Ji-Tempel, Kyoto, Japan anagoria. Kinkaku-ji. Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8e4b2a12-f3e9-4a0d-b579-40ba6d5b93a1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20260427_Goldener_Pavillon_01_im_Kinkaku-Ji-Tempel,_Kyoto,_Japan_anagoria.jpg
- **2026**, 20260429 Burg Himeji 02, Hyōgo, Japan anagoria. Himeji Castle. Himeji Castle, Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/93e7f1d8-8509-4495-be4d-b9e9b5b82a35) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20260429_Burg_Himeji_02,_Hy%C5%8Dgo,_Japan_anagoria.jpg
- **2026**, 20260429 Burg Himeji 03, Hyōgo, Japan anagoria. Himeji Castle. Himeji Castle, Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a3220926-be41-42c4-913a-08547dca7067) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20260429_Burg_Himeji_03,_Hy%C5%8Dgo,_Japan_anagoria.jpg
- **2026**, 20260429 Burg Himeji 06, Hyōgo, Japan anagoria. Himeji Castle. Himeji Castle, Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/bbc8329e-caca-4f89-ad76-68c4d76de038) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20260429_Burg_Himeji_06,_Hy%C5%8Dgo,_Japan_anagoria.jpg
- **2026**, 20260429 Burg Himeji 04, Hyōgo, Japan anagoria. Himeji Castle. Himeji Castle, Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/be600cd2-b7cb-49a4-b1ce-c4a0ab3e3cc1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20260429_Burg_Himeji_04,_Hy%C5%8Dgo,_Japan_anagoria.jpg
- **2026**, 20260427 Goldener Pavillon 02 im Kinkaku-Ji-Tempel, Kyoto, Japan anagoria. Kinkaku-ji. Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c28dcd75-1791-4258-99ea-52e5374fd472) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20260427_Goldener_Pavillon_02_im_Kinkaku-Ji-Tempel,_Kyoto,_Japan_anagoria.jpg
- **2026**, 2026-06-29 kyoto-fushimi-inari torii-romon night. Fushimi Inari-taisha. A large vermilion torii gate frames the Rōmon gate of Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto after dark. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f2e8b7dc-86d2-4554-afc8-7837d42403fd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2026-06-29_kyoto-fushimi-inari_torii-romon_night.jpg
- **2026-06-19**, How Toho Became the Mainstream of Japanese Cinema. A history of Toho from Ichizo Kobayashi's theatre empire and the PCL studios through the Toho labour dispute to the Kurosawa, Naruse and Tsuburaya years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/aa366f50-d90f-44be-8b87-7967dd9e1f69) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyAwl-zqUlo
- **2026-06-24**, The forced-labour camps inside the Okinawa internment system. Nippon TV investigation, drawing on survivor testimony, into the special facilities within the wartime civilian camps in Okinawa where young men were segregated and made to work on US base construction. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/2d15702b-3c16-43ef-8fee-c788a3d250aa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xre72lHWf-8
- **2026-06-25**, A Century of Japanese Whisky and the Master Blender. FNN report from Yamazaki distillery on the craft behind Japanese whisky's reputation, with chief blender Futoshi Koshiishi, after Yamazaki 18 swept the 2025 International Spirits Challenge. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/18898c4e-3765-4614-873e-54c5d39c85fb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yo9ZOecDYw
- **2026-06-30**, A 16-Year-Old Sushi Apprentice in 1966 Osaka. ABC TV archive feature built on 1966 footage of Kuniaki Yoshida training at Sushiman, a long-established Osaka sushi house, rising at 4am to cook rice over firewood. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/9d9f69a9-91d0-4403-b611-a49033f220c3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MNUeTodJpU
- **2026-07-02**, Kiki's Delivery Service in 4K. Toho's trailer for the 4K digital remaster of Miyazaki's Kiki's Delivery Service (1989), given a limited two-week national re-release in July 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1ac3ba31-37ab-47b7-8276-736e5a29be9d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCk8tboExEY
- **2026-07-07**, Miyazaki's 31 Peep Boxes Open at Ghibli Park. TV Aichi films the new Ghibli Park display of 31 layered peep boxes Hayao Miyazaki built over about three and a half years, each assembled from separately drawn backgrounds and characters. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/0b0524b6-88f2-4cdd-bbd9-02b7ec70381e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB2X-tF6G2E
- **2026-07-08**, Goro Miyazaki on His Father's Panorama Boxes. Chukyo TV covers the Panorama Box exhibition at Ghibli Park, 31 dioramas Hayao Miyazaki made over roughly three years, with Goro Miyazaki explaining what his father intended by them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/379b6a22-fd40-4fa7-9aa4-9b8d1184ee38) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VztLZb57QlQ
- **2026-07-09**, Neyagawa introduces Japan's first city-wide vacant house tax. Yomiuri TV explains Neyagawa City's plan for a nationwide-first akiya tax covering the whole city, intended not to raise revenue but to force neglected houses back into use. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5b202786-4e63-4ca5-b4d8-dea6ad3bd584) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prJSXoUR8C4
- **2026-07-10**, Record inbound tourism: 42.68 million visitors in 2025. TV Tokyo on the 2026 tourism white paper approved by cabinet, recording 42.68 million foreign visitors in 2025, up about 16 percent, and 9.5 trillion yen in spending, both all-time highs. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/f8bb20bf-a47a-43cc-af31-e6e356c4dae6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W50aBa3QG8w
- **2026-07-12**, AI Arrives on the Anime Production Line. MBS reports from Japanese anime studios where AI has cut inbetween work from 30 minutes a drawing to 200 drawings in 10-20 minutes, interviewing an animator of 46 years about what it means for the workforce. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/8d0b3d29-c8cd-4656-86dc-a8e453da5974) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmYVkDppVHI
- **2026-07-14**, Behind the Scenes at Kyoto Animation. Kyoto Animation's own documentary series on producing the 2026 series Nijusseiki Denki Mokuroku, opening with the cast on auditions and recording. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/13fe8164-c070-4ee4-a7bc-beff2e68deb8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLW5eQPeNrI
- **2026-07-14**, 85,000 Yen a Month: The Anime Industry's Pay Gap. An analysis of the gap between animator earnings, one artist's best month at 85,000 yen, below minimum wage, and the average salaries of the companies whose logos close the credits. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/5cf620bd-edf7-471c-a3b2-8fa1793caa58) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EmSm_jSe9o
- **2026-07-17**, Two Metres Bent Nine Millimetres: The Cooper of Shodoshima. Joiner Kazuhiro Oka explains why the base of a two-metre fermentation vat is deliberately not a true circle, working Yoshino cedar planted a century ago into vats meant to last another hundred years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/28d8fa01-66c9-4ef2-ad41-93edb8956bd5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7SLDT50PG8
- **2026-07-17**, Gion Matsuri 2026: The Saki-matsuri Float Procession. Kyoto Shimbun 4K record of all 23 floats in the 17 July 2026 procession, including the shimenawa-cutting by the chigo boy and the tsujimawashi corner turns. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/abb59cf6-2e55-400f-9acb-dcfbddb30c59) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4DGfNlHvvA
- **2026-07-19**, Ten Events That Changed Japanese Film History. A survey of the turning points of the Japanese industry, the Toho dispute, the five-company agreement that bound stars, Daiei's bankruptcy, Nikkatsu's turn to Roman Porno, and Kurosawa's departure from Tora! Tora! Tora! [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/b768b05c-fe1d-46bc-a21f-a145caed8167) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRNMYmeR33g
- **2026-07-21**, Mizoguchi at 70 Years After His Death - Broadcast Season. Japanese satellite channel Eisei Gekijo announces a Mizoguchi retrospective marking 70 years since his death, including the first television broadcast of Fujiwara Yoshie no Furusato, Nikkatsu's first talkie. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/2db345a7-1a35-4da9-8760-927a5a020885) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05tp4KOx0nY
- **2026-07-23**, Gion Matsuri: The Ato-matsuri Procession Through Kyoto. Kyodo News report on the second Gion Matsuri procession, in which eleven floats travel the reverse route through central Kyoto on 24 July. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c6980c8f-4db5-4b34-b71c-7863a7971ac4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x0G-XwCPzg
- **2026-07-24**, The Only Sword-Making Couple in Japan Producing Tamahagane. TV Asahi report on the sole husband-and-wife team in Japan smelting tamahagane steel and forging swords by traditional method. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3943cdd0-be4d-4f28-a273-43bfe55521e2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM1JAHs2HYQ
- **2026-07-30**, Inside Naruto Stable: A Day in a Sumo Heya. Naruto-beya's own film of morning practice and the ordinary domestic life of a sumo stable afterwards, including the communal meal. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c070fc92-a5b4-4526-8024-583e33e6c19b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi4Wv8IReDk
- **2026-08-05**, A domestically built humanoid robot for Japanese workplaces. Nippon TV on a Japanese firm's humanoid robot designed for indoor use in hospitals and factories facing severe labour shortages, first aired 5 August 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/451ae852-b39f-47e6-bf45-a88d71e162c8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLTYkpfb1rs
- **2026-08-06**, Game Freak on Prototyping Poco a Pokémon. Game Freak's Shigeru Ohmori shows part of the original design document and never-before-seen prototype footage for Poco a Pokémon. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a543e734-1520-4484-a685-8dc36e3d47d8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlNd2aWXN3c
- **2026-08-07**, Four Countries That Regulated Gacha, and What Happened. A comparative analysis of the four national regimes that restricted gacha and paid loot mechanics, and their measurable effect on markets and player behaviour. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/208f4c96-b975-4196-9976-c03afe7674d4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGygGgnh0LQ
- **2026-08-08**, The Kanto taiko contest at the Hachioji Festival. Full live broadcast of the Kanto Taiko Daigassen and the Min'yo Nagashi procession, in which around 1,500 dancers in yukata take part, at the Hachioji Festival on 8 August 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/1ac45d59-f65a-46ab-82d8-d56258486c92) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGNRs--Uvpk
- **2026-08-08**, Nagasaki: a mother who lost six of her family to the bomb. NBC Nagasaki broadcast archive of a 1990 interview with Chiyoko Egashira, a teacher at Shiroyama school some 500m from the hypocentre, who lost her husband, four children and mother-in-law. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/2cde0a25-57f1-4421-8f56-3b13ae114c08) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S89_cY9twZM
- **2026-08-10**, An 86-Year-Old Tempura Master and the Third Generation. Shizuoka Asahi TV report on Tenkin in Hamamatsu, founded 55 years ago, where the founder still tests oil with his fingers and a grandson abandoned a job offer to take over. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/068bdbb7-5afb-4843-b410-caec5bc5d7a2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0TnvCFpeYA
- **2026-08-13**, Comiket at Fifty - Anniversary Film. Comic Market's official 50th-anniversary film, marking half a century since the first event on 21 December 1975. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/0b7fb4bf-0da7-45f0-bed6-7f072293af6b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07bI0c2X35s
- **2026-08-14**, Morning Training at Shikoroyama Stable. Stable-run record of a full morning keiko session: suriashi footwork drills, butsukari-geiko and moshiai bouts with the new recruits. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/c35e7be8-6aad-4a8f-a298-56609d1f1d98) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2UXUrWkXbk
- **2026-08-15**, Awa Odori 2026: The Final Night Sodori. Shikoku Broadcasting footage of the massed sodori dance closing the last night of the Tokushima Awa Odori at the Minamiuchimachi enbujo. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/58a975a9-d74e-4a3c-8b3a-5914dd60bb61) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn5G0EfGUoE
- **2026-08-19**, Okinawa Karate World Festival: Masters Teaching Kata. Ryukyu Shimpo footage from the third Okinawa World Karate Tournament, where 3,000 karateka from 49 countries gathered and 12 of 18 seminar instructors were prefecturally designated holders of intangible cultural property. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/03fb7e46-c6e8-415d-b444-36fdfc45a9a3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6h2krhVvm4
- **2026-08-19**, Arrest over inflated costs on the Expo Grand Ring. Nippon TV report on the arrest of the site manager responsible for the Expo 2025 Grand Ring on suspicion of inflating construction billing, and Governor Yoshimura's response. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/0fb1fe22-d5a7-4a54-b2a4-02aaba9ff23c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx9styI-5F8
- **2026-08-19**, Companies abolish the retirement age as workers run short. Fuji News Network report on Shionogi and Meiji Yasuda raising or effectively abolishing mandatory retirement in response to labour shortages caused by demographic decline. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/99391e1c-c2c3-44b9-9b67-bf59c253eba1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPyr-Fk-avI
- **2026-08-20**, Game Freak on Developing Pokémon Champions. Game Freak's official channel has its own staff explain the setting and development background of Pokémon Champions, the studio founded by Satoshi Tajiri that created Pokémon in 1996. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/096797fc-1925-451d-a700-d2b6704e365a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L8vxG68-Bc
- **2026-08-20**, Shrinking Japan: population decline and what comes next. BS11 Inside OUT panel with former internal affairs minister Hiroya Masuda after the 2025 census recorded a fall of about 3.1 million in five years, with projections of under 100 million by 2056. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/3bb50337-e67f-4143-aeb0-c1812017d05e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpqwGBXlhbI
- **2026-08-20**, Debating foreign workers: a soba chain where a third of staff are foreign. ABEMA Prime panel on Japan's acceptance of foreign labour, with the head of the Yudetaro noodle chain, an immigration recruiter and commentators discussing wages and shortages. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/a614071b-6382-455a-bc11-de394f4e1acb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Is2UXr_mbg
- **2026-08-21**, Grand Sumo in Paris: The First Overseas Tour in 31 Years. Japan Sumo Association film covering the June 2026 Paris exhibition tournament, the first grand sumo tour to France in 31 years, with the surrounding ceremonies and events. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/547e1f6b-d690-40ff-87e5-2188076a7f87) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZKDN-J6guo
- **2026-08-21**, Two years of the Mount Fuji entry fee, reported from the trail. Sankei Shimbun reporter climbs Fuji in the second year of the 4,000-yen fee, finding overnight bullet climbing largely gone but a heavily foreign trail with recurring equipment and etiquette problems. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/japan/scene/89ba0028-c7cc-4a89-9b6f-8be4d613f3ae) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epKSS6gelmM

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