More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

My Sky Hole.85 is a large public sculpture by world-renowned Japanese artist Inoue Bukichi. It's one of a large sequence of works titled...

Miraishin no Oka is a 5,000 sq. m. sculpture park on the hilltop overlooking Kosan-Ji on Ikujima, a small island in the Inland Sea off Hiros...

Yakami Hime was a beautiful princess ( as all such princesses must be) in the land of Inaba, now western Tottori. She appears in the ol...

The 109 metre sail-training ship NADEZHDA out of Vladivostock is making a courtesy visit to Hamada this weekend. When we got there on Sunday...

At least it does in my neck of the woods. We decided to head to the matsuri at Imada. Imada, like my village, is not a place you pass throug...

Millet hung up to dry. Been very busy this past month. I don't grow any rice, so I haven't needed to harvest that like everyone else...

"Then we advance, picking our way very, very carefully between the stone-towers, toward the mouth of the inner grotto, and reach the st...

"From the caves of the Kami we retrace our course for about a quarter of a mile; then make directly for an immense perpendicular wrinkl...

We had a rehearsed spontaneous visit from a BSS TV crew last Friday. When we first moved here we were on TV 3 or 4 times, but not for a few ...

"We cross the broad opening of the bay, journey along another half-mile of ghastly sea-precipice, and finally make for a lofty promonto...