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  • Dr James Fox continues his Japanese art exploration by taking a journey through Japan's mountainous forests, marvels at its zen gardens and admires centuries old Bonsai. He does this to explore the connections between Japanese culture and the natural environment. He examines how the country's two great religions, Shinto and Buddhism, helped shape a creative response to nature which is extremely different to the West. However, Dr James Fox also takes a closer look at modern Japan's changing relationship to the natural world and travels to Naoshima Art Island to see how contemporary artists are finding new ways to engage with nature.
    In this landmark series, art historian Dr James Fox takes us on a captivating journey through the art and history of one of the world's most enigmatic cultures. Travelling the length of Japan, James explores every inch from the falling cherry blossoms to the dazzling modern cities. Along the way James will discover for himself the importance of art and aesthetics to the Japanese life and culture. He will learn the secrets behind brush-painting, block-printing, bonsai-trimming as well as the importance of the Japanese nature and it's historical value and traditions that surround each element.

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  • @christineatherton3572
    @christineatherton3572 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

    Wearing a suit and tie is respectful and adds to looks refined . Please continue .

    • @robot7759
      @robot7759 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Please do take your hands out of your pockets, especially in Japan.

  • @AbsentWithoutLeaving
    @AbsentWithoutLeaving 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Re: That stone 'garden'...it's not about the final destination, it's about the journey. The creator of the garden left us a huge clue in the fact that you cannot see the entire garden from any one position; to see the whole, and to orient yourself with regard to it, you MUST move around it

  • @nim151
    @nim151 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Excellent documentary of Japan. It is the country that fascinates people with rich of unique culture and lovely people. Thank you for your work to present for us.

  • @gorillaglue7232
    @gorillaglue7232 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    The enthusiasm of the presenter is catching! And to slighly mirror the Lady's comment beneath mine, there is nothing nicer than a man dressed as a man. Great documentary.

  • @Pucheguitars
    @Pucheguitars 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    A fascinating glimpse into Japanese culture. Well done Dr. Fox…..

  • @karerinahabrmanova7534
    @karerinahabrmanova7534 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Some of these places I have visited with my husband (Nachi falls, Kyoto zen gardens, Naoshima) ant though no video can capture the true feeling of beeing there, it is great to watch it, great dokumenty. The shinto shrine at the end of the documetary, when we were zhere, we actually cried of how touched we felt when we walked out of the shrine to the light ant the sea. Undescribedly moving.

  • @barbarapeisajovich2444
    @barbarapeisajovich2444 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Now I undersantd clearly the art of bonsai. So thank you for the images and the language you create for us to understand deeply the spirit of Japan.

  • @Nancy-tr5fi
    @Nancy-tr5fi 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Thank you Dr. Fox for your enlightening tour through the fineness of Japanese culture.

  • @fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602
    @fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    This series is spectacular, a tour through the nature, culture and art history of Japan. Magnificent images packaged in a narrative full of information and curiosities about a different, very, very distant country that becomes an intimate friend through the series' videos. One of the best series that appeared on my TH-cam home page.

  • @wolfgangmarquardt
    @wolfgangmarquardt 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Wonderful ❤

  • @elizagooler-5889
    @elizagooler-5889 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The suit he wears is a sign of respect for himself and sacred nature.

  • @ronward3949
    @ronward3949 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Aesthetics is the elemental approach to seeing, learning, discovering how to integrate with the roots of essence grasping deeper meaning to the interrelationships of Ecological wonders.

  • @TomDobat
    @TomDobat 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    If Mr. Fox wouldn't be so in love with his appearence, he could deliver much more visual information.

  • @ronward3949
    @ronward3949 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Through those threads of Life we find how to accentuate our attachment, approaches to understand the interworkings of what really is.

  • @dpotengy1
    @dpotengy1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love the blue flowers painting where they are reflection of each other up side and down...
    That's awesome and so realistic.
    The gold been as the sun sky on summers and the water where it was reflecting was an amazing way to show even the place where it was envisioned...

  • @raeperonneau4941
    @raeperonneau4941 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    What a beautiful piece. Thank you!

  • @melaniedelacruz3206
    @melaniedelacruz3206 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Japan is so amazing 🎉🥰😍😻

    • @MotionWalks
      @MotionWalks 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Agreed!!

  • @Magushinka
    @Magushinka 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Enchanting story told beautifully. Thank you.

  • @michaelfinkelstein8380
    @michaelfinkelstein8380 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I do admire what you are doing, Dr. James Fox!

  • @alicedent8864
    @alicedent8864 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Best documentary.⛩️

  • @renoirwoodlin-6129
    @renoirwoodlin-6129 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's a enternity before detail

  • @gg.komorebi
    @gg.komorebi 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What a beautiful documentation 👌
    Thank you for sharing 🙏

  • @RadhaSrinivasan-yv3gt
    @RadhaSrinivasan-yv3gt 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Excellent!!!

  • @ronward3949
    @ronward3949 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    A form or forms of Worship, an upwelling of consciousness, where the Spirit takes us to those Realms of ecstatic interactions granting us the well being of Reflection.

  • @ratdoto2148
    @ratdoto2148 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What's particularly interesting is that Japan never actually considered any of these synonymous aesthetics of their culture as art until the western world labeled them as such.

  • @ingridebner6332
    @ingridebner6332 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    ......GROSSARTIG !! 🎥 🍀

  • @jimcowan2736
    @jimcowan2736 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for this terrific series on Japan. Very pleasing to see Alex Kerr get a mention n this episode. He has, together with his Japanese partners, done some amazing work to restore traditional Japanese country houses. Hopefully he will continue to get the credit he deserves.

  • @dpotengy1
    @dpotengy1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Just simply love it.
    Thats why when u buy a small Japanese table garden they come with the rocks, sand, and "brush" or "sand broom".... U can change it everyday if u wish... Itis the Japanese soil mandala... I love it.
    Everything about their gardening has always enchanted me... The bonsai... Their paisagism... Some ppl think it's nostalgic or borred but it exists patience and vision ro your own limitations to even just be creatively intelligent to find ways of #hows

  • @Liquidlightsfish
    @Liquidlightsfish 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Many thanks 🤩

  • @christineatherton3572
    @christineatherton3572 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Fabulous!

  • @LulybelleLullaby
    @LulybelleLullaby 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have watched two of these videos on Japan. I wish I’d seen them before I went to live and work there. I’ll be watching the rest…thank you.とても面白い

  • @shannonspage9360
    @shannonspage9360 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Art and beauty are heavily ingrained into their daily life, it is a very interesting concept. Art is what is dropped from much of western practices, especially when necessity becomes upfront. But the art, beauty, and tuned with nature creates something that is much longer lasting...you can see it in their still standing country homes and structures.

  • @PetaWilliams-j3u
    @PetaWilliams-j3u หลายเดือนก่อน

    The 36 views of My Fuji😮😮😮.

  • @wildreeds
    @wildreeds 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    ❤❤

  • @ayshemaylke5344
    @ayshemaylke5344 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

  • @yaddahaysmarmalite4059
    @yaddahaysmarmalite4059 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm kind of suprised he never used the word "sublime" nor made a comparison to Victorian interest in "the sublime" in thier art.

  • @PetaWilliams-j3u
    @PetaWilliams-j3u หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Hokasai work is devine

  • @elsagrace3893
    @elsagrace3893 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Weird how a country of Shinto paved over so much.

  • @AngelRoseHeaven
    @AngelRoseHeaven 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beautiful

  • @JaimeTorres-x2u
    @JaimeTorres-x2u หลายเดือนก่อน

    Culture of detail!

  • @rucellegarciano4105
    @rucellegarciano4105 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    If it's "Japanese" or made in Japan it is durable... Good quality... 👌

  • @morpheusjp
    @morpheusjp 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great job but I think tou should use a mask when you take a nasterpiece like Hokusai Great Wave ,same with bonsais and Wood /Yvory pieces in rhe beggining .

  • @inekeschilderlessen
    @inekeschilderlessen 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    dank dank

  • @AngelRoseHeaven
    @AngelRoseHeaven 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you

  • @KerrieRedgate
    @KerrieRedgate 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think the Japanese aesthetic comes from *humility* in regard to Nature… This is a beautiful series.

  • @rukathehamsteratwork8896
    @rukathehamsteratwork8896 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I laughed when he said “even an intensely irritating insect like this one” @10:52 . As someone who grew up in Japan I don’t have so much negative feelings towards cicadas but I do admit that I found them “intensely irritating” when I was studying at home in summer as a high school student.

  • @dpotengy1
    @dpotengy1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I would love to know who was the person which 500 years ago started building that bonsai.
    Anyone knows anything about it?!?
    Please.
    Thank u.

  • @squaretriangle9208
    @squaretriangle9208 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Japanese: the beautiful melancholic zikada, Brit: this intensly irritating insect😂

  • @lovewillwinnn
    @lovewillwinnn 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love your “In the beginning....” fairy tale legend 😂😂😂

  • @CatBeck-lg7gp
    @CatBeck-lg7gp หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ja mon

  • @PetaWilliams-j3u
    @PetaWilliams-j3u หลายเดือนก่อน

    I like your suite

  • @CatBeck-lg7gp
    @CatBeck-lg7gp หลายเดือนก่อน

    Japan hid there culture from the westerners❤

  • @tasnime_88
    @tasnime_88 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    23:00

  • @aloeverahoney9379
    @aloeverahoney9379 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له له الملك وله الحمد وهو على كل شيء قدير

    • @c.comploj3775
      @c.comploj3775 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      And how does this relate to the video?

  • @Nancy-tr5fi
    @Nancy-tr5fi 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I love to see men in a suit, thank you. It has become rare, sadly and you know ....what women want. NOT BAGGY SHORTS, GYM CLOTHES.

    • @sahmatuk6631
      @sahmatuk6631 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      no sorry, I do not. I want a man relaxed and not stiff.

    • @londontrotter7481
      @londontrotter7481 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lol. Ok Boomer

  • @PrimeTime350
    @PrimeTime350 หลายเดือนก่อน

    originated in china cherry blossom, tea, bonsai, origami

  • @yvesklein5414
    @yvesklein5414 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "nature in Japan is ignored at one's peril..." said shockingly. This script is so awful and filled with cliches. What a jerk, on top of it. Wow, he even tasted the food. really went out on a limb, guy. His description of the Bonsai made me seriously consider cyanide.

    • @neilritson7445
      @neilritson7445 หลายเดือนก่อน

      spot on - this is eye candy

  • @carissafisher7514
    @carissafisher7514 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am suddenly disappointed by all toggles.

    • @carissafisher7514
      @carissafisher7514 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Iris screen and the Bonsai Tree, are however disappointing to me.

  • @gramsmith1366
    @gramsmith1366 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great vid but could've bothered to pronounce japanese words properly.

  • @wunderwirkstattjoli2868
    @wunderwirkstattjoli2868 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beautyful and great storytelling, but the Mason-Outfit european) does not fit to it.

  • @lawtiragetarot
    @lawtiragetarot 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    thanks you ! i like your video. But don't forget Japanese whalers kill whales in a protected area and despite protection laws. #freepaulwatson

  • @CornellD.Cavendish
    @CornellD.Cavendish 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Great series, but unfortunately like most modern docus, the narrator is present in almost every scene. His suit and tie spoils the naturalness of a landscape.

    • @alexandrebidaud2964
      @alexandrebidaud2964 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Would you not spoil the view of these landscapes as a tourist ? !

  • @elizagooler-5889
    @elizagooler-5889 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I wish Japanese people show as much love for bonsais equally love for dolphins and whales . Stop eating them.

  • @leilausupova9570
    @leilausupova9570 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Why are you wearing a suit and tie why not a kimono?

    • @adrs1380
      @adrs1380 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Cause he's not japanese.

  • @atilamatamoros7499
    @atilamatamoros7499 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Corny. Suit and tie. Stiff absurd!

  • @BeTe-me9oc
    @BeTe-me9oc 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    This "video on Japan", looks like the presenter's ignorant ethnocentric, egocentric, self promotion.⚡⚡⚡

  • @laurensylvester4054
    @laurensylvester4054 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Seriously dude, he takes almost an hour to effectively say absolutely nothing while hiking in woods in a business suit. SKIP.

    • @alexandrebidaud2964
      @alexandrebidaud2964 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Is it a reflection on yourself ? !

    • @garygimmestad4272
      @garygimmestad4272 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He said a lot about Japanese culture. So what if he’s in a suit? He’s obviously presenting himself as an outsider looking in with great interest. You, however, are just making a snarky, useless comment. You say much more about your shuttered mind than you do about this video. Seriously, dude, grow up.

    • @marionpfander8752
      @marionpfander8752 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You so funny !

    • @marionpfander8752
      @marionpfander8752 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Actually :
      Never a dull moment !
      And :
      Become inspired !
      ( also : added comic relief with a comment such as yours !☘️☘️☘️ )

    • @lovewillwinnn
      @lovewillwinnn 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for the warning! ❤