Hokkaido Part Two
Blue Lotus (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
On our full day in Kushiro we had nice weather so decided to walk around the city a bit, which...
Kushiro
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Hokkaido
Blue Lotus (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
In September Hideaki and I were invited back to Kushiro, Hokkaido to visit his brother Hidetoshi. We had really wanted...
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Food
Blue Lotus (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
As a companion to my recent catch-up post, here is a post all about what I've bee eating since my blogging semi-hiatus. We start all the way back in May, just after our trip to Kushiro to visit Hideaki's brother. I had returned to Tokyo first for work reasons, and he came back a few days later he was loaded down with souvenirs from his brother, all of them edible. So we ate like royalty for...
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25 rolls of sod stolen from Hokkaido farm
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
KUSHIRO, Hokkaido (Kyodo) Twenty-five rolls of sod, each weighing as much as 500 kg, were stolen from a grass farm in Bekkaicho, eastern Hokkaido, police said Wednesday. The rolls, each measuring 1.5 meters in diameter and 1.2 meters wide, had been wrapped with vinyl sheets and were to be used as cattle feed.
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New limited supply titles in bookstore
japan exposures (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... In Hokkaido This new publication produced to coincide with Michael Kenna’s exhibition at the Kushiro Art Museum in Hokkaido brings together 50 photographs of Michael Kenna’s growing body of work produced in Hokkaido over the last 7 years, including several photos taken earlier this year. Afterword by Daido Moriyama (available in English). This was published in August in a print run of 1,200...