We received a box of daikon (大根) from my wife’s brother in rural Aichi Prefecture… I documented the worn handicapped parking spot at our locl convenience store… I…
Sambusas, Somali restaurant, Minneapolis, 12/25. Photo: David Beriss SAFN is once again organizing a food/nutrition photo contest in celebration of Anthropology Day. If you have food ant…
Ubusuna Shrine, Shirogaki-cho, Kadoma-shi, Osaka-fu, Japan One of two small hand-made signs at our neighborhood shrine. The Tondo Festival (とんど祭り) is conducted annually on January 15 to coincide…
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…
Kayashima Shrine is close to my house and famous because there is a train station right above it. The kami-deity associated with the shrine resides in a large…
And the shrine looked very different today… As I wrote in a previous post, due to the resignation of the local neighborhood shrine elders, it was unknown who…
あけましておめでとうございます。 今年もよろしくお願いします。
There have been big changes at our local shrine in the last year. The local elders, who have been in charge of preparations for most of the shrine…
My last post on community problems and this post on community collaborative problem solving have unintentionally come together as bookends and an appropriate way to ring out the…
The first three of the photos in this series were from July of this year at a park in my neighborhood. But maybe the timing might be better…
Two left-over shops from x-mas shopping in Kyobashi. New taco and hamburger shop near work… Bonus Shots (w/ sources): https://www.facebook.com/mongolialive.org/posts/because-i-cant-wai…
Bonus link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCpXMy5GalI&list=RDlCpXMy5GalI
Remembering good friends and praying for a Hanshin win tonight…
An important adornoversary coming up in two day’s time. So get your selfie selbst selfed. . I cannot tell from the desk calendar, but it looks like 10…
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…
Japan-Adjacent: In Praise of Creative Expression within Japan’s Shadow LAURA HEIN, Series Guest Editor One of the pleasures of Japan is the high quality of visual art and…
There is a narrow canal (水路, suiro) behind my house that runs parellel with the Neyagawa River for several kilometers. The canal serves as the border between Neyagawa-shi…
“Taking Pictures of Snakes at Midnight: An Anthropological Perspective” on the relation between snakes and humans, and nature and humans, in Hong Kong, by Ryan Xin Xie. Venue:…
ABSTRACT: This project began as a 35 mm film photography collection to document the presence of waste in the Northwest border of Tunisia, as the materiality of waste,…