Month: March 2013

Kyoto photographer Kosuke Okuda and I teamed up to do an article for the Russian travel magazine Afisha Mir (Афиша-Мир). ...

I like fried rice, but I don’t make it very often. I guess because I never got good at making ...

I found this guy perched on one roof whilst wandering around my neighbourhood of Nishijin. He is a Shoki-san: a ...

I just went to the Higashiyama Hanatoro. There was the highly-anticipated projection mapping of Chion-in Temple , a National Treasure ...

The other day I went to Arashiyama, a major tourist spot in western Kyoto. Famous for its bamboo groves, you ...

I have wanted to make Japanese-style curry from scratch for a long time and last night I finally did. It ...

The other day, I went to see the calligrapher Koji Kakinuma's exhibition at Umeda Hankyu Department Store in Osaka. Kakinuma-san ...

After visiting the Kawai Kanjiro's House (the home and studio museum of the late and very great Kyoto potter), I ...

Today I visited the home and studio of Kanjiro Kawai, one of Kyoto -- and Japan's -- greatest artists. Kawai ...