Last Spring, we visited Megijima, Ogijima’s sister island and I had been quite disappointed. As I had never been disappointed by an island of the Seto Inland Sea before, I assumed that I hadn’t visited under the right conditions (although nothing special happened). So the Setouchi International Art Festival was […]
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On our first trip to Teshima, we didn’t see all of the works of art (and only one of the three villages) so we had to go back. Going to Teshima on a Saturday was a risky idea. See, the festival organizers had seriously underestimated the number of people it […]
After a morning spent discovering the subtleties of the tea ceremony, we went to the strangest and least known island of the Seto Inland Sea (at least in that part of the sea, I don’t really know anything about the western part), I mean Ōshima. There are several islands […]
The next day we went to Teshima. Strange how I never really paid attention to this island before. I mean, it has a quite noticeable size, the only bigger island in the area is Shōdoshima. I guess the fact that it’s surrounded by Naoshima, Ogijima, Sōdoshima and Honshū, as well as […]
We spent October 20 on “Small Bean Island“, in other words, Shōdoshima. I had already visited the place about one and a half year ago and despite the fact that I had been relatively disappointed (but it mostly came from the fact that we ended up on a guided tour […]
To help you wait for new posts on the blog (before that I need to: finish emptying my suitcases, sort my thousand or so pictures, recover from jetlag, and mostly recover from a nasty larygintis I caught somewhere on a boat in between two islands of the Seto Inland […]
I’ve waited for that day (yesterday) with a mix of excitement and apprehension, as it was the day I was finally going to set foot on Naoshima. The island where one day, about twenty years ago, the Benesse Corporation decided to set up a Contemporary Art Museum, which made […]
Sorry, I couldn’t be back yesterday as previously mentioned, some connection problems made my life hell yesterday and I couldn’t post. Now everything works (thanks for LAN cables) and I can finally start telling you about my adventures in the Setouchi International Art Festival. Of course, yesterday, the first […]
I take the opportunity that I have an internet connection tonight to share with you my first look of the Setouchi International Art Festival (I’ll give details later). For the rest, you’ll have to wait until Monday, as it’s unlikely I’ll have another opportunity to blog […]
So, in my first post I mentioned that if I was starting an English version of this blog now it was because I was heading back soon to Japan for the Setouchi International Art Festival. Here are a few details about the trip. See, Shikoku has a major problem! Shikoku […]