Cold Cicadas Cry Before I started attending an international school in Singapore, I didn’t know summer holidays in Western schools were much longer than their Japanese counterparts. I clearly remember the panicked expression on my mother’s face when she discovered that I would have two months of vacation from my new school. She said…
Moist Earth and Humid Air You might be surprised to know that the hot and humid days of summer in Japan are not only the season for dreaded mosquitos, but also of monsters and ghosts. When I was growing up, I was told that the reason we tell “kaidan” (which means strange stories) in the…
We have exciting news San Diego and the World! Mark your calendar for the Labor Day weekend when Entoten will welcome Japanese glassblower Inoue Naruhito from Taketa in Oita prefecture, Kyushu. GLASS SHOW with Inoue Naruhito September 3 & 4, 2022 11 am – 5 pm At The Den on Laurel Street 205 Laurel Street, #104…
Falcons learn to fly Before our family moved to Singapore in the spring of 1980, we lived in a cluster of apartment buildings called danchi, in suburban Chiba. The complex, which was completed in 1972, housed approximately 2000 families, and although this sounds like one of those terrible soulless mass housing projects of the 20th…
Self-Heal Withers I don’t know if it was a common practice to use Self-Heal, the medicinal plant, for ailments in Japan in the 1970s. No one around me used it, but I imagine that it would have had a pungent smell and strong flavor, just like the many herbs that appeared on our dining table…
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Bay Park Coffee: 4130 Napier St, San Diego, CA 92110 (Click for Google Maps) Currently showing Sakai Mika and Kazu Oba cups July 22, 2021~ Kuriya Masakatsu Coffee Pourover sets July 5th (Mon)-18th (Sun) 2021
石田彩 Glass Read about Ishida Tami->
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