上り口説 Nubui Kuduchi

A little while ago I enjoyed an opportunity to watch a streamed recording of the play “Paper,” written and directed by Singaporean playwright Tze Chien Chong; it debuted with a chiefly (or all-?)

I would like to start this third post in the series by jumping back in time to the 13th century, and Emperor Go-Uda (#91, r. 1274-1281), whose mausoleum was easily one of my top favorite visits.

As it happens, I visited the tomb of Emperor Jimmu, the legendary first emperor of Japan, since writing the last post, so I guess we’ll start there.

The tomb, in Fushimi (southern Kyoto) of Emperor Kammu 桓武天皇 (r. 781-806), first emperor to make Heian (Kyoto) his capital.

Reading about the Ryukyuan royal treasures that went missing in 1945 – most of them presumed stolen, rather than destroyed; and a few of them recently rediscovered and returned – I happened for the first time upon *images* of them displayed in a pre-war,…

Finally went and saw the Murakami Mononoke Kyoto show that’s been up for half a year or so.

Gradually moving through my old drafts.

Yamazato in a 1958 issue of Okinawa Graph magazine.

An installation meant to represent the development of Jewish wisdom across the ages, from the Tanach, Talmud, and Mishnah, to a wealth of other writings.

The Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University, recently hosted an exhibition on Gaza.