Golden Week has come and gone, and some Setouchi Triennale attendance records may have been broken. Finally, there’s some time to breathe and to blog. Today I want to introduce an artist whose art is located on Shamijima, which means that it will only be available for the Spring Session […]
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Kind of. While most of Japan seems to be in full cherry blossom season mode, they’re really taking their time in Takamatsu this year. I just returned from the cherry tree from the other side of the street and here is what I got for you: I really […]
Every time a new edition of the Setouchi Triennale is around the corner, one of the “traditions” of this blog is to interview a few of the artists who are taking part in the festival. This year, it’s Sarah Westphal who kindly answered my questions first. We briefly met last […]
Today, I’m gonna tell you about the nerdiest thing I have done related to the Setouchi Islands, and probably one of the nerdiest things in my life. See, when I first started visiting the islands 10 years ago, for some reason (I forgot what it was) I started counting how […]
As the title says, I wish you all a very happy new year 2019. Yesterday, on the actual New Year’s Day, I did my favorite activity on that day, that is I stayed at home. Meanwhile, most Japanese people tend to go to the shrine for Hatsumode (literally “the first […]
Some sushi, just because. From left to right (top to bottom) : Otoro : the fat part of the tuna, that is the most delicious sushi in the world as well as the most expensive (200 yen difference between this plate and the same with another random instead […]
Every year in Sunport Takamatsu, usually the last week of July and the first week of August, Setouchi Summer Nights is taking place. It’s a series of cultural and artistic events, coupled with local food stalls (not the usual summer matsuri junk food, but some good quality, delicious – and a […]
Something quite unique happened on Sunday. The very first Wordcamp Ogijima! In case you don’t know, Wordcamp is a series of conferences around and about WordPress. It’s the event where WordPress users, developers, coders and more gather, meet, network, etc. What is WordPress some of you may be asking? […]
Near my house, there’s a small park on the coast with a lone torii. I wonder why it’s there, alone, without a shrine. I mean, sometimes it can happen, places where there used to be a shrine, but it disappeared, not its torii. However, in this case, […]
