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Processing some wheat

Amazingly I found a spare moment to process the wheat that’s been hanging, drying on ...
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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 | itoi+ru-san |  1 comments
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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 | itoi+ru-san |  2 comments
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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 | itoi+ru-san |  1 comments
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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 | itoi+ru-san |  1 comments
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Pathos

Roasted meat party was held last night to say farewell to Emma sensei, a resident ...
2012-07-29 | itoi+ru-san |  1 comments
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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 | itoi+ru-san |  2 comments
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Walking/Picking

There’s a large spider sitting above me as I write this.  It’s been wandering around ...
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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 ...
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May

I’ve been called a ‘crazy dad’ because I was taking hundreds of photographs in a ...
2012-05-20 | itoi+ru-san |  2 comments
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Stuff..

Been exploring the storage areas and peeking into the roof recently.  Stray cats have been ...
2012-05-14 | itoi+ru-san |  2 comments
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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 | itoi+ru-san |  1 comments
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Ono Sakura no Butai

Traditionally, we perform ningyo joruri at an outdoor theatre in Ono around the time the ...
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Ginger?

Things are slowly moving quickly here at the new house..  You find time for little jobs. ...
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A little progress..

Perhaps the real adventure begins now, from this moment onwards..  You can ask yourself what ...
2012-03-16 | itoi+ru-san |  5 comments
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Koyadaira

Towards the mountain Tsurugi the road 438 cuts through an area called Koyadaira.  I drove ...
2012-03-04 | itoi+ru-san |  3 comments
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Lost Photographs (The Disaster ...

One frosty morning in Kamibun a collection of villagers gather around huge vats of boiling ...
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Lost Photographs (Plum Picking in ...

It is almost Spring again.  You can feel it in the air tonight.  Inside our ...
2012-02-11 | itoi+ru-san |  2 comments
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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 | itoi+ru-san |  1 comments
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Sanpo Suru #9

He was goin to formulate this post around that Talking Heads song but he couldn’t ...
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Rice Shindig w/ つよし

Tsuyoshi’s organic hand harvested brown rice is the topic for the day.    Our motley crew stands ...
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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 | itoi+ru-san |  1 comments
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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 | itoi+ru-san |  1 comments
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Gotouda

We just wandered into a post apocalyptic landscape…  Mongrels with droopy teets scatter with puppies and ...
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Oibessan

January 9th 2012  Kusumoto san invited me to the Ebisu festival at the Kotoshironushi Shrine in Torimachi, ...