Museum: South Australia Maritime / Adelaide, 2015
*Adelaide Epiphany at South Australia Maritime Museum* While I’m tempted to dive into a whole soliloquy about my time in […]
Museum: South Australia Maritime / Adelaide, 2015 Read Post »
*Adelaide Epiphany at South Australia Maritime Museum* While I’m tempted to dive into a whole soliloquy about my time in […]
Museum: South Australia Maritime / Adelaide, 2015 Read Post »
In April 2021, we visited a shodo calligraphy exhibition at a saké distillery with special floral arrangements made by Ryoko’s
Exhibit: Shimizu Hian Shodo Calligraphy in Ukan, Okayama, 2021 Read Post »
Map: Japanese Memorial Gardens (on Mayne Island) Note: further reading and resources at bottom On a snowy day in Dec.
Field Notes: Mayne Island (B.C.) Japanese Memorial Garden, 2008 Read Post »
Along a travel by ship from California to Hong Kong, came a few stops in Japan including Shizuoka which led
Museum / Exhibit: Rodin Wing of Shizuoka Pref MoA / Japan, 2017 Read Post »
Blurb: On our extended skinkonryoko/honeymoon ramble, we had a stop in the city of Toyama (capital of eponymous prefecture) which
Museum: Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, 2019 (a sampler) Read Post »
As such, while visiting with Hongo-sensei on Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa-ken, amongst the other activities including a fishing/ whaling/Marine Museum,
Museum / Exhibit: Miwaki Ruins Jomon-era / Noto, Japan, 2019 Read Post »
And, along the way, made a top at a remarkable “scenic waystation” in Niigate-ken which commemorated a unique piece of
As such, in Kanazawa, Ishikawa-ken (a city filled with exceptional museums – by my standards, especially small, specialized, and a little
Museum Exhibit: D. T. Suzuki Zen / Kanazawa, Japan, 2019 Read Post »
Primary aims were to visit friends, stay at all manner of accommodations and see loads of museums, especially, spontaneous, small-ish
Museum / Exhibit: Hokusai, print master / Nagano, Japan, 2019 (w/ minor notes) Read Post »
Basics about Shinse Kinenkan: This culture and folk art museum in Kanazawa, Ishikawa-ken (visited on our Shinkonryoko Ramble in May/June
Museum / Exhibit: Shinse Kinenkan / Kanazawa, 2019 (feat. traditional apothecary) Read Post »
In my first era in Japan, 1992-3 in Tottori, I vaguely heard about a “western” writer who had lived in
Museum & Musings: Lafcadio Hearn (Yakumo Koizumi)’s residence etc. / Matsue, Japan, 2018 Read Post »
Catching up on my/our miraculous life, yonder back in December 2021 amidst preparation for Christmas and a few of their
Exhibit: Noriko Miyake’s goddess art Read Post »
{In what seems like an entirely different lifetime}, in early March we went to the seaside village of Setouchi for
Exhibit: Michal Korman, paintings and global gathering Read Post »
Along a ramble… Along the wanders, I found myself in San Francisco, really mostly in Pacifica, one of my favourite
In May 2019, Ryoko and I wandered around Japan on a shinkonryoko (honeymoon) with the aims of riding various trains,
Museum Exhibit: Kobayashi Issa (haiku master), museum and grave in Shinano, Nagano Read Post »
Evidence from mixed-media master Douglas Coupland’s exhibit at Vancouver Art Gallery – the assortment of items i captured from the
Exhibit: Douglas Coupland mixed-media at VAG, vol. 7 (paintings, remix’d / G7) Read Post »