More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Umeboshi, pickled plums, can most often be found in bentos, where a single plum is placed in the center of the rice to look like the Japanes...

These bags were designed and made by my good wife Yoko. She is a dab hand with a needle, and makes a lot of clothes, curtains etc. A few yea...

With the flooding of the paddies in late spring, there is an explosion of frogs . This has effects on other species in the vicinity, not the...

Yamaguchi City is a prefectural capital, but it is the smallest in Japan, and has a feel more like a large town rather than a city. There is...

This small shrine, located a little off the yamanobenomichi in Sakurai, Nara, is the legendary site of the first Sumo match between humans. ...

I've passed this building hundreds of times, and with its walls of blue corrugated tin I've always presumed it to be some sort of wo...

A few weeks ago, before the onset of the rainy season and its attendant humidity, I took a little bike ride 20kms down the river to Gotsu. T...

Starting in April, you can find frogs everywhere,...in the house, in the garden, on the roads. I first come across the frogs in early spring...

This 3rd and final short video of Korean music from our trip to Seoul last weekend. This is a monk or priest playing the drum for a chan...

If the first video of Korean music from our trip to Seoul is high-brow, then this second one is certainly low-brow! I shot this just in fron...