Japan 2025
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The Centenary Pines of Ritsurin Kōen │ 栗林公園の百年松
OhayōAugust 14, 2025 From the train window, the view is spectacular. I leave Honshū to reach Shikoku, crossing the Seto… READ MORE
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The Izumo Taisha Shrine and the White Hare of Inaba │ 出雲大社と因幡の白兎
Ohayou July 31, 2025 In Shimane Prefecture, which borders Tottori, I went in search of Shinto shrines. I filled my goshuin-chō… READ MORE
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The Woman of the Tottori Dunes │鳥取砂丘の女
OhayouJuly 25, 2025 As the crow flies, Fukui is 180 kilometers from Tottori in the prefecture of the same name.… READ MORE
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The Radiant Zen Beauty of Eihei-ji│ 永平寺の輝ける禅美
OhayouJuly 13, 2025 It is never easy to leave a place—barely discovered, just tamed—you have to leave and start again… READ MORE
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Hakodate and the Last Samurai│函館と最後の侍
OhayouJuly 2, 2025 Hakodate is located in the south of the island of Hokkaidō, which it remained the capital of… READ MORE
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The Buona sera of Mr. Arasawa in Otaru│小樽の荒沢さんの「ブオナセーラ」
OhayouJune 28, 2025 Nights are quiet in Otaru. Very few places stay open after midnight, except for night bars and… READ MORE
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Discovering the True Charm of Otaru │ 小樽の本当の魅力に出会う
OhayouJune 24, 2025 Hokkaidō is a completely different Japan from the rest of the country. The great northern island, 北海道… READ MORE
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The mysterious Ninja temple of Kanazawa│金沢の神秘的な忍者寺
OhayouJune 22, 2025 Setting off at random, without any real goal, allows discoveries to unfold free from the burden of… READ MORE
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Kanazawa, My Love│金沢、私の愛
OhayouJune 19, 2025 Even in the rain, Kanazawa is beautiful — she will forever be my first love in Japan.… READ MORE
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The art of coffee to escape the rain│雨を避けるためのカフェの芸術
OhayouJune 10 2025 The rain arrived during the night, and the streets are covered with a film of water that… READ MORE
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« When will the West understand, or try to understand, the East? We Asians are sometimes appalled by the strange web of facts and inventions with which we have been enveloped. »
Okakura Tenshin
(The book of tea, 1906)
Quote in Souyri, Pierre-François. Nouvelle histoire du Japon. Paris : Perrin, 2010.
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