Hanami: A daily meditation app pairing users with Japanese art masterworks
By
Jun
All dough, no crust. Filling but forgettable.
Summary
Hanami is a solo-built iOS app by developer Jun from Toronto that delivers one Japanese masterwork each morning with curator-voiced audio narration and editorial context. The app features art spanning from Muromachi ink masters through Edo ukiyo-e, Rinpa school, and Meiji-era prints, sourced from public museum archives. It offers curated thematic journeys through movements like The Floating World, The Rinpa School, Kabuki Theater, and Flowers Birds Stillness, designed as a slow, intentional, museum-like daily experience.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledYou open it in the morning, spend a quiet minute with one Japanese painting — a Hokusai woodblock, a Hiroshige rain scene, a Yoshitoshi moon, a Jakuchū rooster — listen to a narrated note that opens up the work, its vocabulary, its history, the world it came from, and close it.
The whole experience is built to feel like a private morning visit to a museum — slow, intentional, no clutter.
I source from public museum archives and write the editorial notes myself, with help from art historians.
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