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Hōchō, Japanese kitchen knives in Tokyo. A Japanese kitchen knife is a type of kitchen knife used for food preparation. These knives come in many different varieties and are often made using traditional Japanese blacksmithing techniques. They can be made from stainless steel, or hagane, which is the same kind of steel used to make Japanese ...
Ikejime. Tekagi (手鉤), the tool that is used for performing ikejime. Ikejime (活け締め) or ikijime (活き締め) is a method of killing fish that maintains the quality of its meat. [ 1] The technique originated in Japan, but is now in widespread use. It involves the insertion of a spike quickly and directly into the hindbrain, usually ...
The Three-Body Problem. The Three-Body Problem ( Chinese: 三体; lit. 'three body') is a 2008 novel by the Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin. It is the first novel in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy. [ 1] The series portrays a fictional past, present, and future wherein Earth encounters an alien civilization from a nearby system ...
Genshin. Genshin (源信, 942 – July 6, 1017), also known as Eshin Sōzu (恵心僧都), was the most impactful of a number of scholar- monks of the Buddhist Tendai sect active during the tenth and eleventh centuries in Japan. Genshin, who was trained in both esoteric and exoteric teachings, [ 1] wrote a number of treatises pertaining to the ...
Long magurobōchō, used to filet tuna at the Tsukiji fish market A magurobōchō in use at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. A magurobōchō (Japanese: 鮪包丁, lit. "tuna knife"), or magurokiribōchō (鮪切り包丁, lit. "tuna cutter kitchen knife"), is an extremely long, highly specialized Japanese knife that is commonly used to fillet tuna, as well as many other types of large ocean fish.
Eyestalk ablation. The eyestalks of female shrimp are often removed (ablated) to improve reproduction. The red dotted line indicates the location on a shrimp where the eye stalk is cut or cauterised during ablation. Eyestalk ablation is the removal of one (unilateral) or both (bilateral) eyestalks from a crustacean.
Daisugi trees. Daisugi trees at Ryōan-ji. Daisugi (台杉) is a Japanese technique related to pollarding, used on Cryptomeria ( sugi) trees. [ 1][ 2][ 3] The term roughly translates to "platform cedar". [ 4] When applied in a silviculture context, the daisugi method requires trunks to be pruned every 2–4 years in order to maintain the ...
Cut-up technique. A text created from lines of a newspaper tourism article. The cut-up technique (or découpé in French) is an aleatory narrative technique in which a written text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text. The concept can be traced to the Dadaists of the 1920s, but it was developed and popularized in the 1950s and early ...