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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

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

Sanpo Suru #9

He was goin to formulate this post around that Talking Heads song but he couldn’t ...

2012-01-28 | itoi+ru-san | 　1 comments

Rice Shindig w/ つよし

Tsuyoshi’s organic hand harvested brown rice is the topic for the day. Our motley crew stands ...

2012-01-26 | itoi+ru-san

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

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

Gotouda

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

2012-01-16 | itoi+ru-san

Oibessan

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

2012-01-11 | itoi+ru-san

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 | itoi+ru-san | 　2 comments

English Parents in Kamiyama - Day 13 ...

Although English Parents have seen mochi making by machine they desperately wanted to try the ...

2012-01-08 | itoi+ru-san

English Parents in Kamiyama - New ...

It is New Years eve in Kawamata. The English Parents walk up to the local ...

2012-01-05 | itoi+ru-san | 　2 comments

CINEMA IN THE HINTERLAND.

Cinema in the Hinterland. ++: Super 8mm :++ Simple film showings in the back of beyond (TRIAL) WHAT? Showing ...

2012-01-04 | itoi+ru-san

English Parents in Kamiyama - Day 12 (Morning) ...

Making soba at Tanakazu san’s. English Parents have never made soba before but they have ...

2012-01-03 | itoi+ru-san

English Parents in Kamiyama - Day 12 ...

We had just finished our delicious handmade soba and Tanakazu Nishimori san returned from hunting. ...

2012-01-02 | itoi+ru-san

English Parents in Kamiyama - Day 11 ...

The English Parents had previously tried mochi and been perturbed by it’s texture and taste. ...

2011-12-30 | itoi+ru-san

English Parents in Kamiyama - Day 10 (Prefectural ...

Hungry for information the greedy English Parents ask to see some museums. Originally, the plan ...

2011-12-28 | itoi+ru-san

English Parents in Kamiyama - Christmas ...

Itttttt’’ssss Chhhhhrrrrrrriiiiiisssssstttttmmmaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssss. I thought I’d heard the last of that song but uncomfortably, there it was ...

2011-12-27 | itoi+ru-san

English Parents in Kamiyama - Day 8

Today is Christmas Eve. Yesterday (Christmas Eve eve as they call it here in Japan) ...

2011-12-26 | itoi+ru-san | 　2 comments

English Parents in Kamiyama - Day 7

The English Parents want to have a little walk up the old roads i’ve been ...

2011-12-24 | itoi+ru-san | 　1 comments

English Parents in Kamiyama - Day 6

It’s time for some Gardening. Having already started to clear the weeds from the gravel in ...

2011-12-23 | itoi+ru-san

English Parents in Kamiyama - Day ...

It was a field trip to Kagawa prefecture on a mission to see the Noguchi ...

2011-12-22 | itoi+ru-san

English Parents in Kamiyama - Day ...

On day four, the English Parents are up early and have a small satchel packed ...

2011-12-20 | itoi+ru-san | 　1 comments

English Parents in Kamiyama - Day ...

English Parents feel the need to explore. English Parents sanpo suru in Kamibun. They have ...

2011-12-19 | itoi+ru-san | 　1 comments

English Parents in Kamiyama - Day One / Day ...

The English Parents arrive in Tokushima station missing one suitcase. They are wearing Scottish patterns ...

2011-12-18 | itoi+ru-san | 　4 comments

Tanakazu Wild Boar Butcher

Tanakazu Nishimori san spends 100 days as a carpenter, 100 days as a farmer and ...

2011-11-30 | itoi+ru-san

Sanpo Suru #8

I found a shrine on the top of a mountain. It took me a while ...

2011-11-28 | itoi+ru-san

KAIR 2011

So, that is it for another year. Ten weeks, over in flash. Today, the studios ...

2011-11-12 | itoi+ru-san | 　2 comments

Sanpo Suru #7

Juliken joined me for a sanpo suru in Kamibun up the old michi that Harada ...

2011-11-05 | itoi+ru-san

Part 2: 人形浄瑠璃 Ningyo Joruri in Toyota City ...

I’m awake after a fairly sleepless night. Most of the alcohol in my body has ...

2011-10-29 | itoi+ru-san

KAIR 2011 INTERVIEWS!

Interviews with the KAIR 2011 artists! Next, we have YUI INOUE from JAPAN! (I asked the artists ...

2011-10-27 | itoi+ru-san

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