Nov 10, 2022 | Articles, JACCU Team, Teachers
Louis Vitalis is a well known budō teacher in the Netherlands and one of the language teachers of JACCU. In his language classes for JACCU, he focuses on basic conversational Japanese and important terms and concepts of Japanese martial arts and dōjō culture. Louis...
Oct 1, 2022 | Articles, News JACCU
What is JACCU? JACCU is the short name of the Stichting Japanese Art & Culture Centre of Utrecht. The main objective of the foundation is to represent and disseminate Japanese art and culture in their broadest sense. It is also a community to share and gain...
Jul 26, 2022 | Articles, Artists
Kaho Koda, a Japanese writer, theater maker, producer, and one of the associated artists in JACCU, tells about her podcast show “Controversial Japan”. The idea of the podcast show “Controversial Japan” started from a single conversation I had...
Jun 12, 2022 | Articles, News NL, Partners
Taiko Experience Valencia @ Casa Lo Es, Dos Aguas, Spain Hosted by Circle Percussion’s Erwin OudshoornAs experienced by Jim Gubbels Update: Our Taiko friends and House of Circles are preparing for their yearly summer retreat, and you are welcome join their Taiko...
May 17, 2022 | Articles, Artists
Maan Limburg a is a Dutch photographer from Utrecht, the Netherlands. Her work stems from her wonder about the world and the lack of understanding it. One of her objectives is to create a world that shows how beautiful everything can be, and to make you reconsider...
May 15, 2022 | Articles, News NL
Bildhalle Gallery in Amsterdam recently exhibited the unique cyanotype photographs of Japanese artist Mika Horie in the artist’s first solo show in the Netherlands, Kiku. Her work will be available again before the year is out at Leiden’s Japan Museum SeiboldHuis from...
Mar 12, 2022 | Articles, Events
In February, between the 19th and 26th, de Bibliotheek Utrecht organised the Manga and Japanese Culture Week in the Neude library. Co-organisers of this event were Himawari no Kai, the Japanese book club, MangaKissa, the only physical manga library of the Netherlands...
Mar 12, 2022 | Articles, News JACCU
lente in Utrechtergens in de binnenstadfladdert een haiku Lente in Utrecht Hou je van haiku (of wil je deze Japanse dichtvorm leren kennen) en vind je het leuk om samen te schrijven en je werk te delen? Dan ben je van harte welkom bij de haikukern in Utrecht, elke...
Feb 13, 2022 | Articles, Partners
JACCU is delighted to announce our collaboration with Haiku Kring Nederland to start a Haiku group in Utrecht. Haiku Kring Nederland is an organisation that promotes the Japanese art of Haiku and Tanka poetry in the Netherlands. To kick-start this collaboration, we...
Feb 13, 2022 | Cooking, Partners
Umami, the 5th Taste The taste of umami [旨み] was discovered by Professor Kikunae Ikeda in the beginning of the 20th century. It was a whole century before the umami taste receptors on the tongue were discovered by scientists in 2002, next to our tastes of sweet, sour,...
Feb 12, 2022 | Articles, JACCU Team, Teachers
Niek Span is one of the language teachers of JACCU. Niek has developed a deep interest in languages ever since he was a child. At the end of his normal school career, this interest was further fueled by a strong curiosity of the Japanese language – without...
Nov 15, 2021 | Articles, Partners
JACCU proudly presents Shokudo Japanese Food & Design a traditional Japanese restaurant near the city centre of Utrecht. Genuinely Japanese In Spring of 2021 Emi Matsumoto (from Nagasaki) and her companion Keiji Aikawa (from Yamanashi) started their own restaurant...
