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To-Dai-Ji...

The Grand Temple and Buddha, plus sacred deer at Nara, in Kansai. Happy New Year 2023. Apparently the largest wood-only building in the...

Travels through south-western Japan...

by bus, train, and on foot. The Japanese Joro spider. Venomous, but not poisonous to humans...only small bugs, and things. The tunnels of...

Blues...and a little soul

New Year-ish, Kameido, Tokyo, January 2022. Live with Teddy, Scott and unknown drummer, at ' Rock House'': Fukuyama, winter 2019. Sunday...

Tokyo 'wildlife'

TOHO studios most famous export, (Hibiya, January 2022). Come fly with me'...down by the Arakawa, July 2021. Beautiful July weather...

Tokyo perspective

A beautiful April day in Ueno, Tokyo.. Ueno station and Ueno Park lily pond, Tokyo. Ueno park Lilly pond. with Koi carp. More from Ueno...

Akihabara 'face-off'

'Peaceful' Japanese-style public demonstrations concerning foreigners in Japan. Nationalists on the left, 'No More Hate', on the right....

Sakura season

Cherry blossom season ("Sakura") in Tokyo, Japan, as of the end of March 2021. A very early blossom (the ground"s already covered in...

Eiko Ishioka exhibition at the M O T; Tokyo, until Feb. 2021

Extensive range of works by a cutting-edge Japanese designer, from the late 1960`s, through to the 2000`s,. on display at the Museum of...

Artworks at `Small Worlds' (Tokyo)

Graffiti and mural artworks at `Small Worlds`; Ariake, Tokyo, Dec. 2020.