These days, I’m celebrating a very special anniversary. That is the 10th anniversary of my first visit to Japan. And more precisely, last week was the 10th anniversary of my first visit to Ogijima! In case you missed it back then, here is the tale of my very first visit […]
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Fun fact: I don’t think I had been to Megijima in the past two years (wow, really? I guess I’m too busy going to Ogijima all the time 😉 ), when suddenly… I went last week, I went yesterday and I’m returning there on Saturday…. What’s happening? <suspenseful music…> Don’t […]
Friday November 3rd, being a holiday, it was the first day of the last week-end of the 2017 season of Art Setouchi. And as it’s now the tradition on Teshima, it also was the harvest festival. This is the day when the rice (as well as other plants, including cotton) […]
Today, I’m bringing you back to Megijima to continue showing you the new art of the island this year for the Setouchi Triennale 2016. So, here is where we went after visiting the Oni Cave. Megijima’s Moai If you’re confused as to why there’s such a statue on […]
I rarely talk about Megijima on this blog for a bunch of reasons, mainly because it’s the least interesting island in the area… No, scratch that… It WAS the least interesting island in the area. Things are changing, finally. And for the next few weeks, you may expect a bunch […]
Last Sunday, I had a pretty simple goal: go to Megijima to re-familiarize myself with it and see what had recently changed. As I only go there only about once a year, I’m not always up-to-date with what happens on the island, but on the other hand, it’s not like […]
The Ushi-Oni (literaly “Cow Demon”), sometimes called Gyūki is a mythical creature that can be found in various parts of Japan. Despite its name, it doesn’t really have a definite shape. Sometimes it will have the body of a crab or a spider, some other times it will actually […]
Today is Setsubun, so make sure you don’t have any Oni in your house, or kick them out by throwing some beans at them!
You may already know that Megijima is far from being my favorite island of the area, but that’s not a reason to completely snub it on this blog (although the fact I rarely visit it has for consequence that I don’t have much to share about it). […]
Let me introduce you to Ao Oni-kun. One can poorly translate this into “Mr. Blue Oni.” You most likely have already seen this statue if you’ve been to Takamatsu. It is a Oni and it is located right next to the Takamatsu Station in the Sunport. As […]