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Photo Exhibition 写真展 Matsuri 「Through Multi-sighted Photographies」 祭り 「多視点からの写真を通して」 2024 February 10 (Sat) ~ 13 (Tues) 2024年2月10日(土) ~ 13日(火) 11:00 – 18:00 (last day / 最終日は 11:00 –…
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Sketch Art Exhibition::「立呑み絵日記」 (Standing Bar Diary) by Syuhei Shibukawa
Photo courtesy of Syuhei Shibukawa via his Facebook. I learned of this exhibition through the 関西酒場研究会 (Kansai Bar Study Group) on Facebook. Syuhei Shibukawa likes to go to tachinomiya,…
蜜香屋 / みっこうや / Mikkouya: A sweet potato shop located in the Tengo Nakazakicho shopping street (I like the logo…). I will have to return to sample the sweets…
Shop website: http://mikkouya.com/
This weekend I am going to Tokyo to meet with a sake expert; I want to give him a bottle of high quality sake from Osaka. So I went to Inada Sake Shop and not only found a great present but also the Foo Fighters sake that I have looking for since its debut in 2021!
Katano Sakura Junmai Ginjo Nama Genshu Super Dry and Foo Fighters×TATENOKAWA JUNMAIDAIGINJO HANSHO Blue Inada Sake Shop is over 90 years old and has a great selection of…
「Anthropology through the Experience of the Physical Body 」There’s nothing like holding the real book for the first time…
Anthropology through the Experience of the Physical Body Editors: Kaori Fushiki, Ryoko Sakurada (2023) Book information: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-5724-8 See also: h…
Do these two visual images have anything in common? (subtitle: Coincidence?)
In「KOREA ENCOUNTERS: Experimental artists challenge ‘suffocating’ conformity in 1960s Seoul」(The Korea Times January 14, 2024), the caption for Image 1 reads, “Chung Chan-seung prepares an installa…
祭り Matsuri Photo Exhibition 写真展
Matsuri 「Through Multi-sighted Photographies」 祭り 「多視点からの写真を通して」 More information coming in future posts! For now, mark your calendars! 2024 February 10 (Sat) ~ 13 (Tues) 2024年2月10日(土) ~ 13日(火…
Jalan Jalan (104): The First One of 2024
Set I Set II If you are not familiar with the Jalan Jalan series, click here.
Here’s to a better 2024…
I arrived at Ubusuna Jinja shortly after midnight. On my way I could smell the smoke from the two blazing barrel fires at the shrine. The rain had…
New Book Announcement: A LONG time in the making! “Anthropology through the Experience of the Physical Body”
Finally! The new book edited by Kaori Fushiki and Ryoko Sakurada has been published! The origins of this book go back to May, 2014 and the panel “Anthropology…
“Character for tax (税) picked as kanji of 2023” – and I my salary is less than it was two years ago…
Photo and story from Japan Today, 12/12/23. I would have actually voted for “(Hanshin) Tigers” as the kanji of the years. But… The money that I now actually…
Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ) 2023 Conference at Meiji Gakuin University Shirokane Campus, December 2-3
Subtitle: アレ！VAOJ@AJJ 2023… Once again, the AJJ is meeting with a wide range of interesting participants, research topics and presentations. Of special note is a two panel first…
Hanshin Tigers Victory Parade in Osaka (11/23/23); photos by Gern Blanston
As I, along with my fellow faculty, staff and students, were required to work on the Labor Thanksgiving national holiday, I was fortunate that my good friend, Gern…
Saw this driving to work today (on the outskirts of Hirakata-shi, Osaka)
What is this? When my wife saw it, she called it a zombie bus. With a little checking I found out she wasn’t far from the truth. A…
Food Terrorism and Japanese Baseball: A Hanshin Tigers Case Study@SWCAS 11/4/23
Presenting at SouthWest Conference on Asian Studies. Virtual Panel 4.2 Understanding East Asia: Language Differences, Japanese Baseball, and Beyond Saturday, November 11, 2023, 7:30 – 8:45 AM A…
Happy Halloween 2023! In memory of Professor Mark Hollstein and all of his monsters…
Since my own office door is occupied as we celebrate the Hanshin Tigers taking on the Orix Buffaloes in the Japan Series, I have annexed Mark’s door for…
「門真市地域伝統文化まつり」 Kadoma City Neighborhood Traditional Culture Festival
It is autumn so it is time to dust off the danjiri and celebrate fall festivals in many neighborhoods in Kadoma City, including my own, Shirogaki-cho. These local…
“There is Power in a Union”
Listen! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwbzxemJZIc There is Power in a Union (Billy Bragg) “Talking with the Taxman About Poetry” (1986) Lyrics: There is power in a factory, power in the land…
Workers of the World Unite (against the homebreakers)!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nmwDTf9k34 Listen! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-G83Awrw8k Homebreakers (Mick Talbot, Paul Weller) The Style Council “Our Favorite Shop” (1985) Lyrics Good…