Kyoto Postcards

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...

Japanese love sakura (cherry) blossoms, which I fine, but I think I prefer the ume (plum) blossoms. Ume bloom in...

I have been taking a lot of photos recently and I decided it was time to get a new camera....

In Japan there is a kind of Shinto shrine called Enmusubi, dedicated to love and relationships. In Kyoto, perhaps the...

An interesting little Italian restaurant in the Kyoto Gosho Imperial Palace neighborhood caught my eye way back last year when...

I got my Papier Tigre Notebag and Notebook in the post today. I loved the icon at first glance and...

Hatsumode is the Japanese custom of visiting a Shinto shrine for the first time in the new year - usually...

Sadly, Sankyo has closed. Today as I was biking down Gokomachi Street, just a bit north of Sanjo Street, a...