With months (years?) of delay, I’ve finally done the research and I now know the name of the main tea house in the Ritsurin Garden. It’s Kikugetsutei! Now you know it too.    

    While I rarely “have to” take it, I really like the walkway in Takamatsu Sunport for some reason.    

  For today’s Setouchi Triennale artwork that I want to tell you about, we’re staying in Takamatsu. Although most Triennale works are located on the neighboring Seto islands, let’s not forget that there is also some art on the “continent” that is Takamatsu, as well as Uno Port in Okayama

    Kumano-jinja is a very simple and small neighborhood shrine like so many other in Japan. It’s one of those shrines that are not tourist destinations, and as such, I tend to find them more “normal.” I have a soft spot for Kumano-jinja, maybe because it’s one of the

    I can’t really tell you much more about this Torii (and its impressive stairs) except for the fact that it’s located in Niihama in the Ehime Prefecture.    

    Just some roofs in Ogichō.    

    No, I didn’t recently flew anywhere, that picture was taken by my parents as they left Japan a couple of weeks ago. I don’t know what you think, but personally I find it to be an amazing view of the Great Bridge of Seto and some of its neighboring islands (Honjima, Ushijima,

  Last Friday we went to Ogijima with no other goal than having a chill, relaxing day, nothing else (not even visiting some art, all Setouchi Triennale artworks being closed on week days in between sessions – except for the outdoor ones of course). However, a surprise event awaited when

  One of the cutest new Setouchi Triennale artwork on Ogijima is Houses of Light by Arthur Huang. I won’t describe the work, Arthur did it much better than I ever can in the interview he gave me back in February, this post will mostly be about showing you what

    I was thinking. It’s been a while since I gratified you with a shot of Yayoi Kusama’s Yellow Pumpkin, possibly Naoshima‘s most iconic artwork. Ironically, I barely saw it (on the bus, from the distance) on my latest trip to the island 10 days ago.    

    This is how Marugamemachi looked in April.    

  It may be a bit difficult to talk about Kinza, probably the most inaccessible building from the Art House Project on Naoshima. Even more so because I won’t be able to show you what it looks like. Let’s try anyway. Kinza, as I’ve just mentioned, is part of the Art House

    263,014! That is the approximate number of people who attended the Spring Session of the Setouchi Triennale. That’s 25% more than during the same period (the first 33 days) in 2010, although I’m not sure one can compare as those 33 days were in July and August back

  That’s it. The Spring session of the Setouchi Triennale 2013 has ended yesterday. I don’t have any official feedback about number of visitors and such, I’ll give them to you as soon as I get them, but overall it seems that everyone was very happy. Myself included as, after

  Even if there are a few flowers left here and there, cherry blossom season is clearly over for 2013. Why does it have to be so short? Well, of course, if it was much longer it wouldn’t be as special. No real Hanami for me this year but my