Monthly Archives: December 2013

Bonsai Sekai Article number 3

Last March, I published a post that detailed the Bonsai Sekai articles written by my friends Toriumi Atsuishi and Endo Shoichi about our tour of Bonsai Gardens of the Northeast. You can see that post, and my own articles about … Continue reading

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Daisuke Sano, Hiroshige, and the 53 Stations

I’ve mentioned them before here on the website, but when I saw these Suiban by Master Painter Sano Daisuke, I thought these would be an excellent opportunity to go into much greater detail about Ando Hiroshige’s 53 Stations of the … Continue reading

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Nihon de Hajimete, Part 12: Pottery and Display Journal Part 3

Continuing where we left off, today we take another visit to Shunkaen, Kimura’s garden, and S-Cube, and Yorozuen and check their pottery. So, without further ado: Shunkaen Kobayashi San has one of the most impressive collections of antique and world … Continue reading

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Nihon de Hajimete, Part 11: Pottery and Display Journal Part 2

Picking up where we left off, let’s take a look at Fujikawa Kouka En Fujikawa Kouka En has a lot of nice old pots, mostly in larger sizes to suit the larger trees they have at the nursery. I thought … Continue reading

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Nihon de Hajimete, Part 10: Pottery and Display Journal Part 1

Today we’ll take a look at the pottery and stands we saw in Japan. This post would be way too photo heavy as a single, so I’ll be splitting it up into 3 parts. Hopefully it won’t take too long … Continue reading

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