Readers readers readers… in a convenient reflection of my state of mind this weekend, this update has been lounging about unhurriedly in my drafts for almost A WEEK, in which time developments have begun to pile up and I have fallen woefully behind. 1.106 kata lagi
Tag » Shamisen
Creeping on tea ceremony from on high
Got me a henna at Tokyo University Gogatsu-sai May festival
Okonomiyaki – Japan’s DIY savoury pancakes
Bloody loved seeing you over this side of the world, Lou!
Saturday pigeon lovin’
A perfect Saturday by the river with my fave Alabamian
Tofu chocolate cake in Asakusa. UNREAL.
Perusing a stunning charcoal forest at Chiyoda 3331 gallery
Mayu does do a good selfie. And she makes me stand artfully in the background.
Mental crowds at Sensoji Shrine, Asakusa.
Wabi Sabi
The melody of the shamisen was oddly comforting. Not the kind of music you’d expect to hear in Balle Balle land. I slipped into a reverie. 96 kata lagi
Woman kissing man
沖繩 Okinawa
沖繩海岸線很美，尤其是沿著海邊的58號路線北上。路上車輛不多，感覺很逍遙自在.
Okinawa has a lovely coastline especially driving along route 58 all the way up to the north were there is hardly any traffic.
離開那霸市我們到殘波岬。除了些遊人，那裏還有一對男女在拍結婚照。我見攝影師指導他倆坐在崖邊面向大海，遠看有點像在猶豫是否要跳下去，心想其實這樣拍新婚照也不知是浪漫還是不好彩頭？ 542 kata lagi
Unconventional music
When I talk to friends about music, in the end it always comes down to usual occidental music. But oriental music is somehow never the main subject. 150 kata lagi
These Japanese girls ROCK!
The shamisen or samisen is different from sangen, which is also a three-stringed, Japanese musical instrument derived from the Chinese instrument sanxian.
It is played with a plectrum called a bachi. 29 kata lagi
Sakura Days Japan Fair
This is an annual festival held at the VanDusen Botanical Gardens. A setting with green grass and colourful blooms, cherry blossoms and many vendors with delicious Japanese foods and you can learn and see so many things from Japanese craftsmanship, … 41 kata lagi
Kubo and the Two Strings
We watched ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ last night. Great tale. Great mythology. Sensational imagination on display. Wonderful artwork. Neat, different ideas – at least for me. 137 kata lagi
