Quick & Tasty

I made a drawing based on a scene of one of my favourite episodes of Ghost in the Shell.

An old film I love very much is “Shanghai Express”, from 1932, directed by Josef von Sternberg and featuring Marlene Dietrich and Anna May Wong in very interesting roles.

I’ve finished reading “The Island Where Red Spider Lilies Bloom” (higanbana ga saku shima, 彼岸花が咲く島) by Li Kotomi 李琴峰, and it is one of the best novels I have read in a quite a while.

One of my favourite films is “Spring in a small town”, (小城之春 xiao chéng zhī chūn) from 1948, directed by Fei Mu.

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (ヨコハマ買い出し紀行, “Yokohama Shopping Trip Log”) is a manga by Hitoshi Ashinano serialised between 1994 and 2006.

Onigiri are just rice balls.

This recipe is inspired by Artisa’s Greek-style green beans recipe.

One of my favourite movies is Wong Kar-Wai’s movie “In the mood for love”, from 2000.

I would like to tell a little story.

This is a quick variant of the traditional Japanese red bean paste anko (餡子).

This is a delicious vegan pasta recipe with some slightly unusual ingredients.

I wrote about the Japanese movie Tokyo Story (tōkyō monogatari, 東京物語) and a poster I drew in an earlier post.

A watercolour of the Blue Dragon of Kiyomizu-dera during the procession.

Tokyo Story (tōkyō monogatari, 東京物語) is a probably one of the most famous Japanese films, and definitely one of my favourites.

This is a vegan version of a Filipino recipe, Binagoongan Baboy sa Gata.

I’ve finished another watercolour, on a sheet of 56 cm × 76 cm ( 30×22 inches) so quite large.

I would like to try an explain why Banana Yoshimoto’s novel “Kitchen” is my favourite novel, because I think reading it might make you happy¹.

“The Memory Police” (hisoyaka na kesshō, 密やかな結晶) is a novel from 1994 by Yoko Ogawa, one of Japan’s most renowned writers.

This is a traditional thin-crust pizza with a non-traditional topping: parsnips seasoned with tomato purée, tobanjan and garlic oil.

This is a nice summery salad of aubergines, chick peas and fresh mushrooms, served with Japanese rice in a separate bowl.

Some time ago I stumbled across an intriguing random fact: of the fifty tallest statues in the world, fourteen are of the Buddha but eighteen are of a being called Kannon in Japanese (Guanyin in Chinese).

I made a series of four portraits based on a scene from the 2015 movie “海街 diary” (umimachi diary) by Hirokazu Kore-Eda, called “Our Little Sister” in English.

Eidon wrote a beautiful short piece called “per Tiziana”, with two different arrangements.

Yasunari Kawabata (川端康成) was the first Japanese novelist to receive the Nobel prize in Literature.

Ukifune (浮舟) is a song from 2002 by the Japanese band GO!