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Step into Rokujuan, where time moves to the rhythm of tea whisks and brushstrokes. 🍵🎨
📍 House of Kagetoshi Imao – an artist’s sanctuary where:
✨ Warabi mochi melts like spring mist on your tongue
✨ Every corner whispers with hidden art (don’t miss his dragon at Nanzen-ji!)... See more
instagram.commake a habit of looking at things and events in more detail. Observe what is going on around you and the people you encounter as closely and as deeply as you can. Reflect on what you see.
Haruki Murakami • Novelist as a Vocation
PHILOSOPHER: When receiving praise becomes one’s goal, one is choosing a way of living that is in line with another person’s system of values.
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
💗 Ikigai: what gets you up in the morning
Take the time to pause & reflect over what reason makes you get up in the morning? What gives you flow? What is simply joyful for you? What makes everyday fulfilling? The Japanese concept Ikigai emphasizes one’s reason to live through their ikigai. Here’s how to find yours and... See more
instagram.comTakanawa Gateway City, a ¥600 billion ($3.3 billion) complex spanning 845,000 square meters, is a long-planned redevelopment project from East Japan Railway (JR East) that integrates residential, commercial and cultural facilities.
"Takanawa Gateway City is the testing ground for the makings of a fulfilled life 100 years into the future," said... See more
"Takanawa Gateway City is the testing ground for the makings of a fulfilled life 100 years into the future," said... See more
JR's 'futuristic' Takanawa Gateway complex set to open in Tokyo
In Japan, "Johatsu" refers to people who disappear due to pressures like failed marriages, debt, and job loss. They abandon their lives and live anonymously off the grid. Specialized companies, called "night movers," assist them in vanishing completely. https://t.co/DFgvp5P5Oi
“It’s not what one is born with but what use one makes of that equipment.”
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
Japanese companies are famous for doing things well but slowly.