Upcoming Talk in Philadelphia- Michiyuki: Japanese Time-Space Concept for Mindfulness of Everyone Everyday
We are thrilled to announce our upcoming talk/webinar on Tuesday, June 29, from 5 PM to 6 PM (ET) hosted by the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia. The talk is on Michiyuki: Japanese Time-Space Concept for Mindfulness of Everyone Everyday. It will be broadcasted live from Shofuso and its Japanese garden. Please register from […]
Creative & Healthy Ways to Use Your Home to Work at Home
Do you work at home and feel stressed and enprisoned? Your home should help you. I’d like to share some tips on how you could use it in creative ways to stay well while working at home. I learned these tips over the years from two resources. One is my research on teleworkers and their […]
The Itsukushima Shrine and the Many Meanings of Hashi
Hashi in motion A secondary concept of Ma is hashi. Generally, hashi means “edge.” The origin of this pronunciation of hashi comes from the Japanese word hashike, meaning a boat, or a barge. Therefore, saying the word hashi unconsciously carries an image of a boat moving between two borders. In this example, the boundary exists in the […]
Michiyuki and the Katsura Imperial Villa
Michiyuki: Traveling and Beyond Being under water blurs the self/space boundary because you are always in motion. Michiyuki, the Japanese spatial concept for “moving self,” means traveling from once place to another. It specifically refers to the space you covered and the time you spent while traveling. But by translating Michiyuki to “traveling,” something is […]
Mindfulness through Ma
More than a gate Another Japanese spatial concept that contributes to designing a mindful space is the boundary in motion. One of the Japanese words for this is Ma, which generally means “gap.” The Chinese character for Ma (間) represents a gate made out of two doors with the moonlight coming through. But Ma is much more […]