More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Here's a further look at what we have been picking from our gardens in June. Green peppers are one of the plants that do so well that pe...

Earlier I posted a typical Japanese landscape, but that may be what Japan mostly looks like, but a small percentage of Japanese live there ...

Located on the banks of Lake Shinji in Matsue, the Shimane Art Museum opened in 1997. The 93,000 sq.m. building, designed by Kikutake Assoc...

Amaterasu. Acrylic on paper. 2006 I'm a painter as well as a mask-maker. This is my version of Amaterasu, the "Sun-Goddess", a...

This is a small Red Ogre mask made in Iwami Kagura style. With its hairless face and red color it looks the most like the euroamerican devil...

This manhole cover is from the town of Tsuma on the island of Dogo, the largest of the Oki Islands which lie off the coast of Shimane. Bullf...

This is a fairly typical shot of the Japanese landscape. I took it a couple of days ago on my trip up to Togawa . About 65% of Japan is fore...

The first dance in any Iwami Kagura performance is the Shioharae, in which the dancers purify the dance space in readiness for the kami. Wh...

One of the first walks I did to explore the area I now live in was along the Yato river. After passing the dam and walking along the bank o...

Japanese Plants: know them and use them Betty W. Richards Anne Kaneko Shufunotomo Co. Ltd ISBN4-07-975121-4 228pp This book is small enough ...