Posted in Architecture, Art, Business, Food, Japan, Museums, Photography, Web on Mar 31st, 2008 No Comments »
Japan Newbie has a nice piece on a kushikatsu restaurant in Juuso, Osaka, run by an elderly couple. The cook wears berets and the wife is extremely forgetful, but the taste is great.
The New York Times features Mori Minoru of Roppongi Hills fame in The Builder Who Pushes Tokyo Into the Clouds. Yes, Mr Mori […]
Posted in Nature, Photography, Religion, Writing on Mar 12th, 2008 2 Comments »
The lotus is my favorite flower and although the ponds are still empty in this early season, I happened to come across these lotus pictures when reorganizing my slides last weekend. They were taken in Hokongoin Temple in Kyoto, which boasts a fabulous lotus pond in summer.
[Lotus (Hokongoin Temple, Kyoto). Photo by Ad Blankestijn]
I […]
Posted in Kyoto, Photography, Temples on Feb 5th, 2008 No Comments »
Was the outside of the Golden Pavilion originally clad in thick gold, as it is today?
Many scholars doubt this. Is it not rather just a fanciful name, like the Silver Pavilion, about which we know for certain that it never was coated with silver (something which would anyway have been insane considering the wet […]
Posted in Architecture, History, Photography, Tokyo on Feb 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
Sometimes buildings can be lost so thoroughly that you would never suspect their original existence. I am not talking about your favorite restaurant in Tokyo that has suddenly disappeared. Another one will take its place. Much more serious of the loss of things that cannot be replaced.
I am referring to the Taitokuin Mausoleum in Shiba, […]
Posted in Kobe, Nature, Photography on Jan 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Via Furoshiki Blog my attention was called to the New York Public Library Digital Collections, which contains many old photographs from 19th c. Japan.
This is an albumen print of the famous Nunobiki Falls in Kobe. It shows the lower one, the Medaki, situated immediately behind the Shinkobe Shinkansen Station.
It is interesting to see […]
