Japanlife: quirky kissaten
Note: Unique & quirky kissaten & cafes are one of my top things I love about Japan. Also:
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Japan Life/Travel
Healing Ramble
Healing: rocking hospital visit (plus green kei-truck & ramen)
(Brief) Diary: Rocked Okayama Uni hospital visit with 4 check points (#mecfs specialist, TCM kampo, IV cocktail & admin tasks)
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‘Weird Japan’ a multi-purpose reply
Think I will set this up as an auto reply “macro” (do people use that term?) to email folks when
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Diary: specs, tea, cards & usual annotations from the fog
Everything old was new again / same as it ever was, same as it never was. Various annotations Nov. 25~27ish
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Diary: sparking tiny fires
Diary notes: Saturday included: new orthotic inserts, made on site to order, plus reviewed/evaluated big bag of shoes for sturdiness
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Kinfolk + Pals
Halloween out n about / minimal effort, moderate fun (w/ magic darling duo)
Briefly: Evidence of us doing the Halloween rounds this afternoon / including the magnificent Taroman pumpkin shriveling into repose &
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Notes to Future Self
Vignettes & Lists / tying dangling ends
[Oh, I should be more clear: these are things done recently, a few things I might do today, and things
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Japan Cottage Musings, Japan Life/Travel
Charcoal, Poetry & Postal + topics of varied interest
While the industrious senior ladies are cleaning the house, I fire up a machine to tell you about the following
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“Kerouac in Kobe” – *On the Road scroll* in Japan / video interview + exhibit
A rollicking mixed-media revue of a groundbreaking exhibit in Japan featuring a stunningly-reproduced facsimile of the taped-together sc/roll manuscript of
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Riff: Japan, working holiday visa, 1992 (& related circumstances)
Before arriving in Japan, I really knew very little about Japan, I didn’t have an interest in Japan, didn’t care
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Japan “opens up”* / A few things about #Okayama
* to tourism (not everywhere, not everyone blah blah blah) If you are curious, Japan is reopening to independent tourism
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Kinfolk + Pals
Equinox at Ohaka, saying respectful hellos to the ancestors
Friday, Sept 23: Equinox day walk up to the ancestral graves for cleaning, incense and fresh flowers… as is tradition.
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Exhibit: Shimizu Hian Shodo Calligraphy in Ukan, Okayama, 2021
In April 2021, we visited a shodo calligraphy exhibition at a saké distillery with special floral arrangements made by Ryoko’s
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Museum / Exhibit: Rodin Wing of Shizuoka Pref MoA / Japan, 2017
Along a travel by ship from California to Hong Kong, came a few stops in Japan including Shizuoka which led
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Museum: Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, 2019 (a sampler)
Blurb: On our extended skinkonryoko/honeymoon ramble, we had a stop in the city of Toyama (capital of eponymous prefecture) which
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Museum / Exhibit: Miwaki Ruins Jomon-era / Noto, Japan, 2019
As such, while visiting with Hongo-sensei on Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa-ken, amongst the other activities including a fishing/ whaling/Marine Museum,
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