Japanlife: quirky kissaten
Note: Unique & quirky kissaten & cafes are one of my top things I love about Japan. Also:
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Item by Poste: photo zines from Art Island Naoshima
Photo book and photo zine by Andrew McCormick (@a.d.mccormick IG, @a_d_mccormick Tw) curator/wrangler of Art Island Center (@artislandcenter IG) on nearby Naoshima – one
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Japan Renegade Travel Musings (specifically *not* Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka)
Adventure Tour Guide Ted Taylor and DaveO riff in a historic Kura barn in Tsuchida, Okayama, Japan talking about exploring…
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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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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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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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Field Notes: Kyoto’s Gingaku-ji (6 instax-views)
Japan is a land of photographers and places to be photographed. Truly, there’s an endless variety of both the photographers (and of course their equipments) and the places to be photographed. This is all to say that you will see much finer photos of the Ginkaku-ji aka “silver pavilion” which, isn’t really very silver unlike it’s cousin the “golden pavilion” which is very gold.
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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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Field Notes, Japan Life/Travel, Libraries / Museums / Archives
Scenic / Historical Waystation: Oyashirazu Road / Niigata, Japan, 2019 (Geosite and Community Road feat. Rev. Weston)
And, along the way, made a top at a remarkable “scenic waystation” in Niigate-ken which commemorated a unique piece of
Museum Exhibit: D. T. Suzuki Zen / Kanazawa, Japan, 2019
As such, in Kanazawa, Ishikawa-ken (a city filled with exceptional museums – by my standards, especially small, specialized, and a little
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Museum / Exhibit: Hokusai, print master / Nagano, Japan, 2019 (w/ minor notes)
Primary aims were to visit friends, stay at all manner of accommodations and see loads of museums, especially, spontaneous, small-ish
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Museum / Exhibit: Shinse Kinenkan / Kanazawa, 2019 (feat. traditional apothecary)
Basics about Shinse Kinenkan: This culture and folk art museum in Kanazawa, Ishikawa-ken (visited on our Shinkonryoko Ramble in May/June
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Outing: inland sea beach and pizza (and camera goofing)
Along our adventures, in this case, June 2022, we made a return visit to a stretch of beach called Nishwaki
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Outing: Hosokawa Bizen-yaki Pottery studio
Along our adventures, we went to the notable pottery town of Bizen to visit master potter Hosokawa-san (you may recall
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