Construction Quote by Hidetaka Miyazaki

“I feel like Kagami is the light of Seirin." ~ Tetsuya Kuroko”

— Tadatoshi Fujimaki

“Lurking at the foundations of otaku culture is the complex yearning to produce a pseudo Japan once again from American-made material, after the destruction…

— Hiroki Azuma

Different cultural and geological references inspire the collection as seen in ancient tribes and tradition,

— Lubov Azria

'Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice''s story is one of fate and growth.

— Hidetaka Miyazaki

“Hokusai managed to integrate this into a Japanese vision of landscapes and nature prints which strike the Western viewer as utterly Japanese, and the…

— Matthi Forrer

“For thousands of years the creation of mandalas—circular, geometric designs—has been part of both Eastern and Western spiritual traditions.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Tokyo style is so specific. And I'm a very big fan of their history. It's pretty simple. A lot of the time, people expect…

— Thundercat

It's true that there was a lot of influence from 'Tenchu.' We even pondered making 'Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice' a part of the 'Tenchu'…

— Hidetaka Miyazaki

If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“Traditions of the Shinobi: Those who are active as shinobi should try their best to see, hear, or write down what they should know…

— Yoshie Minami

“The Manyōshū is Japanese in the vital sense that the language in which it was written was Japanese, a language quite different from Chinese…

— Richard H.P. Mason

“Shina is the Japanese appellation for China most commonly used during the first half of the twentieth century. After World War II the name…

— Stefan Tanaka