Kirby Café
Kirby’s café in Tokyo takes the Kirby Nintendo game world and turns it into a real-life experience. The entire place is designed like Kirby’s universe – from the decor to the music.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
転んでも七回、八回目に立ち上がれ – “Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
Silence as Grammar: What Japanese Leaves Unsaid
The unsaid, in Japanese, is not absence. It is the most carefully chosen word of all.
On Kodawari – The Word I Wish I’d Known Sooner
Kodawari is the quality of a craftsman who has spent thirty years perfecting the temperature of his broth. It is the record collector who refuses to buy anything that was not pressed in Japan. It is the calligrapher who will not stop until the brushstroke, which nobody else would notice, feels right. It is a stubborn, loving, quietly fierce commitment to doing one thing exactly as it deserves to be done.