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Beyond Tokyo
Let’s go to an amazingly bookish Japanese inn!
Is there anywhere better to curl up with a good book than a Japanese hot spring inn that inspired over a dozen famous Japanese poets and novelists in the early 1900s? Literary lights gathered for months at a time at Tateshina to pen their novels, poems and plays…read more
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Japanese Home Cooking
Japanese Style Fried Rice
Cha-han is one of the most classic of the “foreign” foods that are everywhere in Japan. And while it may have originally come from China, it’s been so tweaked to Japanese taste, it’s now a local favorite. Fried rice is on the menu at every ramen restaurant and it’s a perfect crowd-pleaser of a brunch dish…read more
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Seasonal Secret
It’s Japanese quilt season!
Japan’s best international quilt show happens in Yokohama every November, and it absolutely boggles how every year it manages to become spectacular in new ways. This year, the number of quilts featuring multiple textile techniques—dyeing, appliqué, embroidery, beading & more—really exploded! It was so hard…read more
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The Thing I Learned Today
How do you translate the impossible?
Robert Hass reveals the secrets of translating haiku into English
| Think about it. Writing a haiku is already a daunting task. With only seventeen syllables to convey a whole season, a deep insight about the universe or the nature of human existence, there are only a handful of masters who managed to…read more |
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If you don’t subscribe to Only in Japan or The Tokyo Guide I Wish I’d Had, here are links to posts about new art in old houses at the fantastic Biwako Biennale, my favorite quilts, magic animal masks and stealth holidays of Japan…read more
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Jonelle Patrick writes novels set in Japan, produces the monthly Japanagram newsletter, and blogs at Only In Japan and The Tokyo Guide I Wish I’d Had
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