Kyoto Travel Journal: Gion Matsuri 2023

Chigo, Yasaka Shrine Influences and Beginnings When I was in my early twenties, and without much experience of travel, I arrived with my...

Kyoto and Tokyo Travel Journal, Fall 2022

It was almost three years to the day when we returned to Kyoto in November 2022. In the intervening time, when it was not possible to...

January In Japan Book Club: The Old Capital

Our JanuaryInJapan Bookclub was so good last winter when we came together to talk about the first chapter of The Tale of Genji, that...

Zusetsu Book Review: The Old Capital

The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata The novel is set in Kyoto, a city of high art and the cultural soul of Japan since it became the...

9 September: The Chrysanthemum Festival!

Our Washi Tray Purple Flower features chrysanthemums! It's the 9th of September, and we're thinking of chrysanthemums today, as it's Kiku...

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