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Beauty And The Beast – exploring Japanese style from the whimsical to the sublime

April 25, 2021

12-25 March 2019. My first time in Japan was in 2018, and I’ve written about how I tried to take …

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Kyoto’s Magical Mountain – hiking from Kurama to Kibune

October 23, 2020

18 March 2019 I really wanted to hike the Nakasendō, a 534-kilometre ancient highway between Kyoto and Edo (Tokyo). It …

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Here Be Dragons – Kiyomizudera Temple and the Seiryū-e Festival, Kyoto

July 25, 2020

13-14 March 2019 It begins with a long mournful drone on conch shells. The sound fills the air like a …

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A Moving Work Of Art – a glimpse into the world of the geisha

June 17, 2020

A short anecdote about childhood curiosity: When I was ten years old and living in Melbourne, I was in a …

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You Can’t Trust the Man Behind the Bar; food and fashion in Kyoto

May 11, 2020

11-26 March 2019 After thirty hours of non-stop travel from Delhi we finally arrive at our Airbnb in the Gion …

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The Ordinary and the Extraordinary: Kyoto’s Kitchen and the Hollyhock Festival

January 10, 2019

9-15 May 2018. From the outside it looks like you’re entering a dark tunnel that goes on forever. Even though …

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Japan’s Imperial Heart: walking the streets of Kyoto

November 25, 2018

9-15 May 2018. Kyoto is old, but she is no old dame. She is an ancient goddess in a flowing …

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Kimonos-Weddings-Geisha: the streets of Kyoto

November 6, 2018

10-15 May 2018. I have six full days in Kyoto but I lose two of them. I lose the first …

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The Red and the Gold – Kyoto’s Fushimi Inari Shrine and the Golden Pavilion.

October 25, 2018

9-15 May 2018. In 1950 a disturbed 22-year-old novice monk burned down the five-hundred–year-old Rokuon-ji Temple in Kyoto, and then …

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