Thank You! I saw it made!
One of my best windows into Japan and things Japanese is a series called “The Making”. They’re all of fourteen minutes long, and are well worth watching. I’ve been watching these […]
Category Archives: Japan
Making Do. Domestic Kintsugi?
While I did not experience the United States’ Great Depression of the 1930’s, I am the child of grandparents and parents who did. The depression changed and marked them. Those times […]
Seen Through the Train Window
In Japan we had the astonishing experience of being able to travel on trains easily, to where we wanted to go. On trains that were clean. On trains that ran […]
Blue Tile Roof: Ao!!!
Here in “Nor’England” there are few tile roofs. Over there, in Japan, are many. I don’t know a lot about these roof tiles. In Japanese they’re called “kawara”. Here’s a […]
Carpy Diem
Our visit to Japan has not been highly choreographed or scheduled. Much of my time has been been spent as an exercise in being present, of hoping to be […]
Facing The Tracks
I was walking into Oppama, and was waiting for a train to pass… when I noticed the backsides of the buildings that line the tracks. They were asking to have […]
Zoo Portraits: Tokyo, Japan
I, the photographer, was trailing behind the rest of the family as they headed off to find the flamingos. We passed by the snow monkeys’ enclosure. They were fascinating. […]
