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Japanese snack package craft artist holds first Tokyo exhibition in Ikebukuro, offers autographs

• Katy Kelly
  Oct 14, 2019
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Make sure to guzzle your fill of snacks beforehand, because these sculptures are mouthwatering.
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• (art • COK • cool • exhibition • Harukiru • Ikebukuro Parco • museum • papercraft • snacks)

Japanese artist creates cat banknote alternative: Kittens on 200 yen

• Oona McGee
  Oct 12, 2019

Kitty currency merchandise has us hoping this faux banknote will one day become a reality. 

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• Japan
• (animals • art • cats • cool • cute • money • pets • stationery • yen)

PooPaint Toilet paper lets you make art with your poop

• Oona McGee
  Oct 11, 2019

Not just for potty-training children!

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• (art • children • funny • paint • poo • poop • potty training • toilet paper • Toilets • unko)

Japanese Mame Shiba Inu banknote design pays homage to nation’s beloved dog

• Oona McGee
  Oct 9, 2019

Shiba Inu currency becomes so popular it gets its very own line of merchandise. 

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• (animals • art • cool • cute • dogs • mame shiba inu • money • pets • shiba • Shiba Inu • stationery • yen)

Reconnect with art at the Trowel Picture Museum in Fukuoka

• Master Blaster
  Oct 7, 2019

We visit a museum for the common but under-appreciated Japanese art of kote-e.

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• Japan
• (art • Fukuoke • kote-e • Miura Kote-e Museum of Art • museum • Onojo • SNJO • Tatsuhiko Miura)

Hayao Miyazaki’s concept art and ideas for the Ghibli Museum to be revealed in new exhibit

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 3, 2019

The legendary anime director’s sketchbook serves as the inspiration for a new exhibit on how the museum was created.

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• (anime • art • Ghibli Museum • Hayao Miyazaki • museums • Studio Ghibli)

Keanu Reeves visits Hideo Kojima and a rural art island in Japan before John Wick premiere

• SoraNews24
  Sep 10, 2019

Reeves took in some contemporary art with rumoured girlfriend Alexandra Grant in the heart of the Japanese countryside. 

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• (Alexandra Grant • art • celebrities • hollywood • John Wick 3 • keanu • Keanu Reeves • movies • Parabellum • Teshima • travel)

Cruel angels, beautiful blades: The amazing sword of the Evangelion and Katana exhibition【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 6, 2019

Master katana craftsmen and anime mecha designer team up to will Evangelion to life in katana form.

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• (anime • art • awesome • cool • Evangelion • events • exhibitions • Katana • swords)

Japan’s greatest papercraft artist tackles popsicle boxes, makes an icy cool superhero

• Katy Kelly
  Sep 2, 2019

Garigari-kun, engage!

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• Japan
• (art • awesome • cool • crafts • Gari-Gari Kun • Garigari-kun • packaging • papercraft)

Japan Travel: Mysterious landscape found near a park with severed heads

• Oona McGee
  Aug 27, 2019

Escape to a world that appears to be from another dimension.

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• Japan
• (art • COK • funny • LOL • SNJO • tourism • tourist sites • travel • weird • wtf • Yamaguchi • Yamaguchi Prefecture)

Miniature Japanese ryokan room captivates all our hearts with its teeny tiny perfection

• Katy Kelly
  Aug 24, 2019

A Twitter artist fashioned a super small hotel scene next to a plug socket, and we can’t stop staring at it.

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• (art • cool • cute • Kiyotaka Mizukoshi • miniatures • Mozu Studios • ryokan • tiny art)

Check out these photos from the British Museum’s beautiful Manga special exhibition【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 21, 2019

The London landmark gives manga the fine-art treatment.

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• (anime • art • British Museum • COK • cool • london • manga • museums • SNJO)

New anime AI program animates your art for you when you add a voice clip【Videos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 16, 2019

DeepAnime is the attest attempt to raise the heights of automated anime production.

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• Japan
• (AI • anime • art • awesome • COK • cool • deep learning • GANs • illustration • manga • technology • video)

Uniqlo’s new line of Sailor Moon T-shirts to go on sale soon, and we can’t wait to buy them

• Dale Roll
  Aug 8, 2019

They have actual panels from the original manga on them!

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• Japan
• (art • graphic T-shirts • manga • Naoko Takeuchi • Sailor Moon • Uniqlo • UT)

Real-life Rurouni Kenshin reverse-blade katana, forged by master swordsmith, now on display【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 7, 2019

The sakabato, one of the most famous swords of the anime/manga world, is now part of the real world.

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• (anime • art • COK • cool • Inuyama • Katana • manga • museums • sakabato • SNOJ • swords)

Beautiful art museum Shinkansen finally coming to Tokyo for a limited time this fall【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 5, 2019

Whether you think of the Genbi as the world’s most beautiful built train or its fastest art gallery, it’s a rail experience like no other.

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• Japan
• (art • art galleries • art museums • bullet trains • Niigata • shinkansen • Tokyo • trains • travel)

Japanese performance artist develops kit to let you experience a summer music festival anywhere

• Master Blaster
  Aug 2, 2019

“Fuji Rock Anywhere” can be made with ordinary household products.

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• Japan
• (art • Bokunou • crazy • Dokodemo Fuji Rock • Fuji Rock • Fuji Rock Anywhere • funny • inventions • music • music festival • video • weird)

Pokémon manhole covers are taking over streets in Japan!

• Oona McGee
  Aug 1, 2019

Pikachu and Geodude are just some of the new Pocket Monsters owning the roads with gorgeous one-of-a-kind designs.

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• Japan
• (anime • art • awesome • cool • cute • manhole covers • Pikachu • Pokemon • Pokémon GO • travel)

Japanese artist and cat make bamboo guitar that serves nagashi somen noodles on hot summer days

• Master Blaster
  Jul 1, 2019

Gives new meaning to “noodling around on the guitar.”

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• Japan
• (art • bamboo • cats • food • guitar • music • nagashi somen • Noodles • Shota Mori • summer)

Japanese artists anthropomorphise national flags into samurai characters for 2020 Tokyo Olympics

• Oona McGee
  Jun 27, 2019

See what your country and national flag look like as a samurai warrior!

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• Japan
• (2020 Olympics • anime • anthropomorphization • anthropomorphized characters • anthropormorphism • art • artists • flags • Olympics • samurai • social media • sports • Tokyo Olympics)

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