LETTERS FROM A FLOATING WORLD

Sayonara

On April 2012, I sent Greecejapan my first “Letter” from the, still, floating world called “Japan”; my idea, which the people from the website...

First, the rock

Fukushima Prefecture's Iwaki isn't exactly what anyone would call “main tourist attraction”; if it wasn't the birthplace of my mother-in-law I don't think I'd...

Coexistence

In the world of high technology, and particularly in its part related to design, it's a truism that the popularity of Apple's products is...

The children of Edo

I noticed them from the first time I set foot on their areas –Nihonbashi, Kanda, Ginza, Asakusa and all the rest of the more...

Opening the mirror

A letter about osechi needs to be followed by one about kagami-mochi (鏡餅) perhaps the ultimate symbol of the Japanese New Year period; even...

Festive

Its standardization in both appearance and content makes the theory about its origins going back to the Kyoto Imperial Court of the Heian Period...

Stigmata

Recently, Japanese media (and consequently, their international counterparts and the Internet) are once again at the subject of tattoos: because of a tattoo artist...

Black and white

The minimalism of its aesthetics –smooth white and black lens-shaped pieces on a simple matrix of horizontal and vertical lines- and the simplicity and...

Warmth

Every year, when autumn starts (which, and in defiance to all logic, the Japanese believe that happens in the first week of August) they...

On the street

The –usually self-procalimed- experts say that if you want to see them in their full glory you need to go to Fukuoka's Nakasu or...

Blunt edge technologies

“These photos are why I'm trapped in Tokyo forever” is the title of an essay that was published recently, first in “Medium” and then...

And the two shall become one flesh

Every time I play the (unofficial) tour guide to friends and acquaintances visiting Japan, I make it a point to include in the tour...

Empty tables

It's one of those small details that are rarely mentioned in tourist guides and that people only notice when they stop at some café...

Citius, Altius, Fortius

The first time I came to Japan, in the summer of 2009, all public spots were filled with advertisements promoting Tokyo's bid for the...

The night of the masks – three years later

Almost exactly three years ago, I had made from this very pages a prediction: I wrote “ as has been the case with all...

Something old, something new

Υesterday, I read a blog post by a Briton living in Japan for the last ten years; in it, the author was having a...

Healthy eating

Living in the area that could arguably be called Tokyo's top tourist destination, this is something I see almost on a daily basis: visitors...

Pulse

After a quarrel with her brother, the god of sea and thunder Susanoo no Mikoto (建速須佐之男命), Amaterasu Omikami (天照大神) the goddess of the sun...
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