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

      A few months ago, I became the owner of this very cute xenomorph (that the alien from the movie Alien for you people not obsessed with Alien movies out there). Funny, how I stopped caring about figures and figurines when I hit puberty, but since I’ve moved

    I don’t know about you, but I really like this view of Ogijima’s Lighthouse.   On a side note, there are some little changes to the blog. First a slight change to the header. The title is now included in the header picture and not above it anymore.

  Yesterday, I ran into Colonel Sanders in the middle of Takamatsu:     I thought Haruki Murakami‘s fans would like that. And in case, you don’t know Colonel Sanders (unlikely, but who knows), here is the beginning of an answer:     For the rest, let me advise you

  Look at what came in the mail a few days ago:     Yep! It’s a Ohenro-san Lego (a Shikoku Pilgrim)! Ok sure, it’s not an actual one. I think it’s supposed to be ninja master or something along those lines, but that was my reaction when I saw

  The Setouchi Triennale 2013 is starting in 55 days, and I have to warn you, this blog will focus a lot on it during the next few months (most likely during the whole year). If you don’t care about it, first, you should, but secondly, don’t worry, the usual

  I already tell you quite a bit about my life in Takamatsu here. Sure I elude many details, mostly the personal and private ones as they’d be off-topic on this blog. The thing I want to tell you about today under this title is a little experiment I just launched

    This is a Kumade (although if I understand correctly, Kumade may just mean “rake” in Japanese). It is one of the many artifacts one can get for New Year’s in Japan. My mother-in-law got it for us, now I wonder where we’ll manage to store it to catch

  I just wanted to wish all of you a very Happy New Year 2013, the year of the snake.     Just like last year, I will post a short series of posts about New Year’s in Japan over the next few days. I hope you’ll enjoy them.  

  Last Sunday, I briefly went to Takamatsu Sunport and I saw that the preparations for the Setouchi Triennale 2013 are well underway. After all it starts in 90 days.       I use the occasion to remind you that it will take place in three sessions: Spring: from

    They dance because they’re happy. They’re happy because they can join the first two Google+ communities that I have created. And they invite you to do the same. You may know (or not) that Google+ has implemented a new feature that I instantly loved: Communities. They merge the

    And with this Sunset on Ieura Port on Teshima, I’m informing you that my vacation is ending (I still have one day left, but it’ll mostly be devoted to cleaning the house) but the good consequence for you is that the blog is waking up.  If you followed

  If you have visited Takamatsu, I have a few questions for you. Yes, I know, I’m asking a lot to my readers these days; first this thing about share buttons, and now that. Here is the deal, the city of Takamatsu has asked my friend Cathy feedback with these

  A short post to announce that the Art Setouchi official website has just been redesigned in preparation of the Setouchi Triennale 2013. There are some good things and less good things in it. Let’s start with the thing that I find the most surprising: the official poster! I had

  Lately there has been a lot of talk on the blogosphere (at least the English-speaking one talking about Japan) about something called “micro-aggressions” (by the infamous Debito). I’m also currently reading Baye McNeil‘s book about racism, Japan and racism in Japan. In that book, he devotes a full section