Traditional Japanese tea ceremonies use matcha (stone-ground powdered green tea). According to 8th century Zen Buddhist Eisai, matcha is the ultimate mental and medical remedy…
Samurai warriors are commonly (or always) associated with men. However, there were just as strong and fearsome female samurai: the Onna-bugeisha. Long before the Western…
Kumihimo roughly translates into English as ‘braided cord’. The word represents, in a larger sense, one of the least known of the traditional arts and…
Samurai are legendary warriors and perhaps the most well-known class of people in ancient Japan. They were noble fighters that fought evil (and each other)…
Some would say: Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs. But before you make any judgement, please understand why Patryk, born and raised in Poland, is…