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IRRASHAIMASE!
Official Welcome Party 2010 for the KAIR artists. A Jazz Orchestra provided the sounds and ...
Buitsu san, shukaku, kome, kikai
Buitsu san is harvesting his kome (rice) at the moment. I gave him a hand. ...
2010-09-02 |
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Renovations of an old shop in Jinryo: ...
I’ve been helping the crew with the renovations of the nagaya. It’s been good, satisfying ...
2010-08-31 |
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Somen, Udon, Soba, Ramen
Visiting the Yamao san’s for lunch. The grandchildren had to come up with a ...
2010-08-31 |
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Polished Rod
The annual ‘Polished Rod’ event (or Bouzuki) in Kamiyama occurred a couple of days ago ...
Lots of fireworks at this time of the ...
Lots of them. Reminds me of Something like Polke. The combination of somen in a hamburger. The taste ...
Awa Odori, Tokushima City 2010
Huge crowds along the riverbanks. We ate okonomiyaki with sauce. We sat on the road for a while, eating, ...
2010-08-18 |
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Adam's Town Office Adventure
Adam visited Kamiyama Town Office. It was a much needed respite from the top floor ...
2010-08-17 |
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Rakuon Rakujitsu
The Rakuon Rakujitsu Tea House has just begun to serve icy desserts called Kakigori. Kakigori ...
2010-08-14 |
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Renovations of an old shop in ...
MEANWHILE a group of student architects from Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku (Tokyo University of the Arts) ...
2010-08-12 |
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How to make Awa bancha
Awa Bancha is fermented green tea. It is made in just a couple of places ...
2010-08-08 |
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Visiting Shosanji Temple
A musician with a video camera films the empty car park. He must see something ...
2010-08-05 |
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What a Waterfall Walk
We have been in Kamiyama now for roughly four and a half months and this ...
Hatake san
Rainy season is behind us now, a long hot summer ahead. The plants are thriving ...
2010-07-26 |
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Sanagochi Plateau
Sanagochi borders Kamiyama. You might pass through it on your way to Tokushima City and ...
2010-07-18 |
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Shimobun Tanabata Festival 2010 (Part B) - Construction ...
Prolonged rain and then super high humidity hampered the construction effort but thankfully ice cold ...
2010-07-12 |
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Shimobun Tanabata Festival 2010 (Part A) - ...
Hiromi san kindly asked Mutsumi, Eri and I to renovate a float used last year. ...
R 's' A 'e' I 'a' N 's' Y 'o n'
It rain for three days then afterwards the mountains and the river steam. There is ...
2010-07-02 |
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Tanabata Preparations in Shimobun (Shiwake - 'Sorting Things, in ...
This evening we helped the preparations for Shimobun’s Tanabata festival by engaging in shiwake. The ...
2010-06-24 |
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Down on't 貸出菜園
The rain and the humidity over the past week or so is perfect for the ...
2010-06-24 |
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Coast海岸
A trip to the seaside with Retired Buisness Man, Mutsumi, Eri & I. We all ...
2010-06-20 |
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Allotment 貸出菜園 (with 'Powerpoint Office non-style remix' photographs) ...
Having been given the opportunity to cultivate a patch of land we’ve thrown ourselves at ...
2010-06-13 |
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Ningyō Jōruri Session No.3
As an alien, I thought I might try to interpret the story based on what ...
The Regeneration of Terrace Cultivation by R-Style (R stands for Relation, not Rufus or ...
R-style is the name of a project through which local university students are encouraged by ...
2010-06-05 |
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Ningyō Jōruri Performance @ Kamiyama ...
Watching the Joruri performance on Saturday afternoon I realised just how abstract the experience was. ...
2010-05-26 |
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Charcoal Oven Project
Higashitani-san has a charcoal oven. We visited him on a rainy day and he explained ...
Poster Gallery Kamiyama
At the moment, there is an exhibition of work along the river opposite Kamiyama Onsen ...
Ningyō Jōruri
Ningyo Joruri practice session in Kamiyama. Next Sunday there will be a performance @ Kamiyama ...































