A month or so ago was rice planting season in Japan. Living in the countryside, this is an important time and it seemed that there are rice fields everywhere! One will pop up hidden behind a supermarket, or the postoffice- even my schools have their own fields ready for the students to plant and harvest. […]
On my island school (Mishima) there is a temple on a hill, atop some rough and rambling stairs. It glints serenely on the horizon through a tunnel of tori gates- a gate framed by a gate, framed by a gate, framed by a gate.
As spring turns to summer I have rediscovered the beach. Dreary and depressing in the winter, the warmer weather has rejuvenated it into the perfect place for a sunset game of chess. Apparently, two foreigners playing chess is a bit of an attention grabber. A couple of friends on a meander along the beach stopped […]
snow monkey photography 