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Processing some wheat
Amazingly I found a spare moment to process the wheat that’s been hanging, drying on ...
F R O N T. . .G A R D E N S
Documenting small public street-front gardens. In Japan. It is an ongoing project. They represent lots of things. ...
2012-09-21 |
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Currents
Japanese in-laws wish to visit the world-famous vortex in Naruto. I try and warn them ...
2012-09-17 |
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In the Attic
While cleaning up the doma I feel compelled to try and get into the roof. ...
2012-09-09 |
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A can of worms.
I’ve been trying to get the house ready for a new arrival but, as usual, ...
2012-09-03 |
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Pathos
Roasted meat party was held last night to say farewell to Emma sensei, a resident ...
2012-07-29 |
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Sanpo Suru #53
5 o’clock and I’ve got my brown boots on and the sky is pale blue ...
2012-06-11 |
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Walking/Picking
There’s a large spider sitting above me as I write this. It’s been wandering around ...
Bashing
ヂd染めエアrテェrん—f路尾rポウンヂンg手ぇオテェrだy。oops still in Hiragana. Did some earthern floor pounding the other day. There is a name ...
May
I’ve been called a ‘crazy dad’ because I was taking hundreds of photographs in a ...
2012-05-20 |
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Stuff..
Been exploring the storage areas and peeking into the roof recently. Stray cats have been ...
2012-05-14 |
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Renovating
We’ve been seeing this badger wandering around during the day. It’s face is scabby and ...
2012-05-05 |
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Ono Sakura no Butai
Traditionally, we perform ningyo joruri at an outdoor theatre in Ono around the time the ...
Ginger?
Things are slowly moving quickly here at the new house.. You find time for little jobs. ...
A little progress..
Perhaps the real adventure begins now, from this moment onwards.. You can ask yourself what ...
2012-03-16 |
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Koyadaira
Towards the mountain Tsurugi the road 438 cuts through an area called Koyadaira. I drove ...
2012-03-04 |
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Lost Photographs (The Disaster ...
One frosty morning in Kamibun a collection of villagers gather around huge vats of boiling ...
Lost Photographs (Plum Picking in ...
It is almost Spring again. You can feel it in the air tonight. Inside our ...
2012-02-11 |
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A waterfall that is 83% solid
It’s the 18th Wonder of the World, the Jintsu no Taki in Kamibun. Behold. As you ...
2012-02-08 |
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Sanpo Suru #9
He was goin to formulate this post around that Talking Heads song but he couldn’t ...
Rice Shindig w/ つよし
Tsuyoshi’s organic hand harvested brown rice is the topic for the day. Our motley crew stands ...
Gotouda san x inoshishi
Phone call: It’s Gotouda and he’s barking at me in Japanese and I’m floundering around ...
2012-01-25 |
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The Smoked Glove
Mori san has a smoke house (actually it is more like a smoke shed or ...
2012-01-21 |
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Gotouda
We just wandered into a post apocalyptic landscape… Mongrels with droopy teets scatter with puppies and ...
Oibessan
January 9th 2012 Kusumoto san invited me to the Ebisu festival at the Kotoshironushi Shrine in Torimachi, ...
English Parents in Kamiyama - New Year, Part ...
I ask the English Parents if they want to see another shrine on the way ...
2012-01-09 |
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English Parents in Kamiyama - Day 13 ...
Although English Parents have seen mochi making by machine they desperately wanted to try the ...
English Parents in Kamiyama - New ...
It is New Years eve in Kawamata. The English Parents walk up to the local ...
2012-01-05 |
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CINEMA IN THE HINTERLAND.
Cinema in the Hinterland. ++: Super 8mm :++ Simple film showings in the back of beyond (TRIAL) WHAT? Showing ...
English Parents in Kamiyama - Day 12 (Morning) ...
Making soba at Tanakazu san’s. English Parents have never made soba before but they have ...































