Great-great Grandfather's art pieces

My Great-great grandfather (my grandfather's grandfather) was a Noh-ga and Butsu-ga artist. Noh-ga is art for Noh, classical Japanese musical drama. These sketches are portrait for Noh actors. Butsu-ga is "painted representations of buddhist deities", and it refers to all paintings that have some relationship to Buddhism. According to my grandmother, these were done around 1930's. I wanted to share these works here because they are absolutely stunning.

Amsterdam

It was great to arrive to Amsterdam after 12 hour flight from Japan. It felt like I was back to a normal world. However, going from Japan to Netherlands is like going from a midget land to a giant land. I had no idea Dutch people are so tall.

People in Amsterdam knows how to chill. I've never been to a city where it has such relaxed atmosphere. It was a great stop over to go between two extreme countries; Japan and Israel. A walk in the Vondel Park was extremely enjoyable, as well as window-shopping at these funky stores near Dam square.

Only thing it was tough for me in Amsterdam was the food. It was especially tough coming from Japan , a food heaven. I mean how many toast and sandwiches can you have?

Have checked out Van Gogh and Rembrandt Museum. It was great seeing their original pieces.

JAPAN

There is no other place in the world where it is more suitable to say, “We're not in Kansas anymore” than Japan. You're in Oz, Alice in mirror image, spirited away into bizarre Miyazaki world, wherever it is, this place is extremely unique, and is disconnected from the rest of the world.

Japanese succeeded to create an extremely efficient and organized society, where a train arrives on schedule without a minute of delay, a shipping service called Takkyu-bin offers you an excellent and reliable shipping service, a cashier gives you an exact change at any time. I was amazed with how functional everything is here, but after awhile it does start to feel like you're living in a robot society where everything is controlled and organized. I started to miss the chaos and craziness of Israel. I even missed how Israelis don't wait in line, which usually drives me crazy.