Cats in Japan

I love cats :nekozuki:^ ^ they are very cute, I never tired of looking at their spoiled behaviour. I think the cutest cat in the world is Maru (besides my cat Zoro of course ^^)

Maru is cute with his round face and the way he acts, he is born in May 24, 2007 is a male Scottish Fold (straight variety) from Japan. He is celebrity on the internet who has become popular on YouTube nowadays, and he is crazy in love with the box, this is one of his video:


Beside Maru in Japan there are also Neko-nabe family, they were abandoned cats bros & sis when they were little. The girl who picked them up was troubled to think about names of 4 cats at a time. She needs help, so put their movie on internet & explained their cute characters. And she continued uploading their growth after a name was decided by viewers. And so their name are Masyumaro daibutu, Monpe, Nicobou, Ichigou, Manzu, and Nyagoro^^ and they love sleeping in the pan.

And now they all grown up and get more bigger^^ and I found this cute video too...a mass neko-nabe^^:

Posted on JapanProbe.com by probeeden

Fuyuko Matsui

When I was browsing in search of inspiration I found another artist that I like^^ oddly enough for me to found that some of my new discovery are dark and grotesque art, plus almost all of them are Japanese artists.

I think Japanese painting/nihonga looks beautiful and mysterious. Fuyuko Matsui including one Japanese artist who uses nihonga techniques. "I want to create a sympathy, a strong feeling, between the viewer and myself," Matsui said in an interview "In a way I’m doing something that the viewer can’t do himself. It's like people who occasionally think about jumping under a train. In my art I’m actually jumping under the train. That shock – I’m doing it for you." Just like when I see her paintings I feel like drowning in a surreal world. When asked about where her inspiration comes from she said "There are various things that inspire my paintings: first a strong concept, second I have a mental picture and a concept, and third I just randomly paint until something starts to appear, and, then, there are all of these different ways combined." if it's me I prefer the third way, because the process usually works like that to me^^; but it proved to me that a powerful concept is very necessary in producing a good art.

interview snippet from Culturekiosque