Poetry
Japanese Poetry: http://www.albany.edu/eas/170/waka.htm
Tanka
and Haiku: http://www.oren.jp/japan_09.htm
Tanka:
http://www.gate39.com/culture/tanka.aspx
What
is a tanka?: http://home1.pacific.net.sg/~loudon/rick.htm
Tanka
and Tradition: http://members.tripod.com/~Startag/TankaTradition.html
Waka
[Waka means Japanese poems. Tanka is a form of waka]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanka
Kokin Wakashu [= Kokinshu. The first Japanese Imperial Anthology
of poems.]: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/kokinshu/intro.html
Shin
Kokin Wakashu [New Kokin Wakshu, the 8th Imperial
Anthology]: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/shinkokinshu/AnoShin.intro.html
Women Poets [TOP]
Early Japanese Women Poets: http://womensearlyart.net/reference/poets.html
Aesthetics
[TOP]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GLOSSARY/AWARE.HTM
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GLOSSARY/MONO.HTM
http://www.uwec.edu/beachea/teach/japanese_religion/puette2.htm
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GLOSSARY/MIYABI.HTM
http://www.languagehat.com/archives/000846.php
http://www.niwa.org/Yugen.html
http://homepage1.nifty.com/HanaYugen/ManagerEnglish.htm
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WabiSabi
http://www.hermitary.com/house/aesthetics.html
http://www.art.unt.edu/ntieva/artcurr/asian/wabisabi.html
http://users.exis.net/~jnc/nontech/wabisabi.html
http://c2.com/w4/wikibase/?WabiSabi
http://www.tjnelson.com/wabisabi.htm
City & Tourism [TOP]
Feel Japanese Culture: http://www.explorejapan.com/jtextures.htm
Kyoto
City Homepage: http://www.city.kyoto.jp/koho/eng/index.html
Nara
City Homepage: http://www.city.nara.nara.jp/english/index.htm
Nara
City (tourism): http://www1.sphere.ne.jp/naracity/e/e_hp.html
Fashion
[TOP]
Clothing of the Heian Period (794-1185):
http://evagenji.hp.infoseek.co.jp/index.html
Japanese
Clothing (kimono): http://www.japanesekimono.com/index.htm
Japanese
Folding Fans: http://www.indiana.edu/~ealc100/Group2/fans.html
Gardens
[TOP]
http://www.explorejapan.com/jgardens.htm
Japanese
Zen Gardens: http://www.japanesekimono.com/index.htm
Noh Theatre [TOP]
http://www.indiana.edu/~ealc100/Group2/theatre.html
http://homepage1.nifty.com/HanaYugen/ManagerEnglish.htm
Seasons
& Nature [TOP]
Japanese Cherry Blossom: http://www.todays.jp/cgi-bin/sakura/sakuradb.cgi
Japanese
Autumn Tints: http://maki-sweden.hp.infoseek.co.jp/nihonkoyou.htm
Japanese
Bamboo: http://www.kyoto.zaq.ne.jp/dkakd107/E02-e.html
Temples
& Shrines [TOP]
Temples
and Shrines in Kyoto: http://www.kyokanko.or.jp/shaji_link.html
Textiles
& Design [TOP]
Japanese Design (Kimono patterns):
http://www.sensho.jp/kumiai/kyou.html
Japanese
Design (Kimono patterns): http://www.sensho.or.jp/sensho_artgallery/artgallery1.html
Japanese
Design (textiles): http://www.watojikan.com/wahonsample.htm
Traditional Crafts
of Japan: http://www.kougei.or.jp/english/
Traditional
Japanese Colours: http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~sakamaki/dentouiro.html
Japanese Patterns:
http://www.kariginu.jp/sozai/sozai1-3.htm
http://www.kariginu.jp/sozai/sozai1-4.htm
http://www.kariginu.jp/sozai/sozai2.htm
http://www.kariginu.jp/sozai/sozai2.htm
http://www.kariginu.jp/sozai/sozai6.htm
http://www.kariginu.jp/sozai/sozai7.htm
Cinema
[TOP]
http://www.asianfilms.org/japan/iwamoto5.html
Buddhism
[TOP]
http://www.buddhaweb.org/
http://www.4truths.com/
http://www.buddhanet.net/4noble.htm
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2055.html
Japanese
Buddhist Sculpture: http://www.indiana.edu/~ealc100/Group2/budda.html
Tea Ceremony
[TOP]
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2096.html
http://www.teamuse.com/article_001001.html
Tea
School: Urasenke: http://www.urasenke.org/
Tea
Master: Sen-no-Rikyu: http://www.city.sakai.osaka.jp/arekore/person/person1_e.html
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