Notes from the Archipelago - a Japanese Autumn 秋 2019 Monday 18th November 11月18日..........月曜........ ....................do I keep...

Notes from the Archipelago - a Japanese Autumn 秋 2019 Sunday 17th November 11月17日..........日曜日 Looking at Tokyo from one of its high...

Notes from the Archipelago - a Japanese Autumn 秋 2019 Saturday 16th November 11月16日 土曜日.......... A nice sunny Saturday morning should...

Notes from the Archipelago - a Japanese Autumn 秋 2019 Friday 15th November 11月15日金曜日 High up above the town of Nikko, at well over 1200...

Tuesday 12th November 11月12 火曜日 / Thursday 14th November 11月14日木曜日 In British India, the colonial rulers developed areas in the Himalayas...

Cats, Showbiz and Art Deco Sunday 10th November 11月10日 (日曜日) / Monday 11th November 11月11日月曜日 Let me introduce you to Kuro 黒 chan. She...

A wind band, a glut of French Impressionism and a Pacific view...... Saturday 9th November 11月9日 (土曜日) Do you know those novels where the...

I have never considered November as a time of year to take a break. It is generally a gloomy, cold month. Autumn has said goodbye, and...

Saturday (土曜日) 6th April and Sunday (日曜日) 7th April 2019 I think the sign of a good trip is that when it's time to return home, you are...

Friday 金曜日 5th April My host serves me breakfast at my table overlooking the wide ocean horizon. I am about 200 km south west of...

Thursday 木曜日 4th April Time to leave the environs of Mount Fuji and head down south to the Izu Peninsular (IZU半島) . This is not actually...

Wednesday 水曜日 3rd April 2019 Cycling under the shadow of Fuji-san (Mount Fuji) can be quite cool in April, so imagine my delight at...

Monday (月曜日) 2nd April There is a mantra that you will often come across in tourist brochures about Japan. It goes something like this:...

Sunday (日曜日) 1st April “…It’s a unique concert, starts at 11am. You need to bring an apron, a triangle bandage, and a hand towel ......I...

A Japanese Spring Sunday (日曜日) 31st March l It’s fun having friends in Eastern places. I should be thankful I live in near a cosmopolitan...

Japanese Spring 2019 Saturday (土曜日) 30th March Peter Maxwell-Davies, Jo Kondo, Oliver Knussen, Rafael Nassif,...

Japanese Spring 2019 Friday (金曜日) 29th March At last I have cracked the logistics of leaving Yokohama station to get into town. You...

Japanese Spring 2019 Thursday (木曜日) 28th March Today is cloudy (Kumori 曇). I decide spend it in Tokyo. There is one garden I would like...

Japanese Spring 2019 Wednesday (水曜日) 27th March It’s always nice revisiting old haunts, so I decided to stay in Yokohama today. The sun...

Tuesday (火曜日) 26th March - Tokyo Imperial Gardens My first full day in Japan, and I’ve already taken the train into Tokyo from Yokohama...