The Re/Construction: January 13 ~ June 13, 2026
This rather large post documents the construction of a new apartment complex (corrected name on the apartment signage:「フォレストグクリエオーレ城垣町 I II」or, Forest Creaole Shirogakicho I and II) in my…
Tag: neighborhood
Old Tobidashi Bōya “Running (or Jumping?) Boy” Sign in my Kadoma-shi Neighborhood
One day, while out on a jalan-jalan (“walking for nothing”) with my camera I happened upon this very old sign. It was located on a storage garage at…
Pre/Re/Construction…
You have seen this: 「Deconstruction: Demolishing a Showa Era House in the Neighborhood (this post is still under construction…)」 https://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2025/09/deconstruc…
Deconstruction: Demolishing a Showa Era House in the Neighborhood (this post is still under construction…)
I moved into my neighborhood in 2003. Most of the houses were new and very ordinary. From the outside, there was really no architectural evidence of any particular…
Kayashima Shrine Summer Matsuri (July 27, 2025) / 萱島神社夏祭り（2025年7月27日） / PLUS! A Surprise Bonus! / さらに！サプライズボーナス！
A HOT early Sunday afternoon, the deafening sound of the cicadas on the cherry tress that line the small stream behind out house, and the sound of shouting…
(Update) They turned the closed bakery into bicycle parking…
The local bakery that closed earlier this year (VAoJ, 2/15/23) has been gutted and turned into bicycle parking.
Another neighborhood shop closes…
This is was a tako yaki shop that was open for 23 years. The owner turned 80 and seemed to be having health problems. I went there a…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus Project, Week 16: Victor Kumar on James Baldwin, Margaret Mead and Ethnographic Approaches to Studying Race
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to relaunch the second semester of an ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagog…