🦇Charlotte Kemp Muhl🦇 on Instagram: "Honored to perform in the Android Opera in Tokyo last night! @keiichiroshibuy built this intelligently harmonizing Android, designed to resemble his deceased wife. The whole show was a futuristic love letter into the abyss, and there were even Buddhist monks, who graciously didn’t mind when I turned drills and vibrators into musical instruments for a noise jam moment with the orchestra. Japan is my favorite planet. Insanely busy with work on this trip but d

Japanese Archery (Kyūdō)- Archery of the samurai

Aiki Life Japan on Instagram: "Kyūdō, the “Way of the Bow,” is the modern Japanese martial art of traditional archery, rooted in ancient practices dating back more than two thousand years. Archery first appeared in Japan during the Yayoi period, when the bow was used for hunting and warfare. By the Heian period (794–1185), mounted archery known as **yabusame** became an important ritual, performed to entertain the imperial court and to pray for peace and abundant harvests. During the Kamakura an