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LETTERS FROM A FLOATING WORLD
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LETTERS FROM A FLOATING WORLD
Takeuchi
text and photo by
Grigoris A. Miliaresis
Some believe it is the pine; and the trademark Japanese pines, especially when they become bonsai, the well known dwarf-trees/sculptures certainly evoke instant memories of Japan...
LETTERS FROM A FLOATING WORLD
A rendezvous of the stars
text and photo by Grigoris A. Miliaresis
We know them as Vega and Altair, two of the brightest stars in our skies but the Japanese call them Orihime (織姫, “weaver princess”) and...
LETTERS FROM A FLOATING WORLD
The queens of Akihabara
text and photo by Grigoris A. Miliaresis
They have been called something more than a group: a social phenomenon. And I will probably agree since even casual visitors of Tokyo can hardly...
LETTERS FROM A FLOATING WORLD
Wrestling of gods
text and photo by
Grigoris A. Miliaresis
Today was the final day of the summer sumo tournament in Nagoya; sumo tournaments are held every two months, always on an odd month. These last...
LETTERS FROM A FLOATING WORLD
A theater in Ginza
text and photo by Grigoris A. Miliaresis
It was originally built in 1889, it was destroyed by fire in 1921, its rebuilding started in 1922 but before it was completed it was...
LETTERS FROM A FLOATING WORLD
Eons
text and photo by Grigoris A. Miliaresis
Anyone who will walk the extra mile while wandering behind Sensoji, Tokyo’s most famous Buddhist temple, will see him in a place between a tourist...
LETTERS FROM A FLOATING WORLD
Everything in a plate
text and photo by Grigoris A. Miliaresis
It might sound pompous but I am deeply convinced that the biggest crime that has been committed against Japanese gastronomical culture was that of sushi...
LETTERS FROM A FLOATING WORLD
Koshien dreams
text and photo by
Grigoris A. Miliaresis
Among the numerous obsessions of the Japanese, there is none as striking as the one with sports; visitors of Japan in an Olympic year will have...
LETTERS FROM A FLOATING WORLD
Dancing to the end of summer
text and photo by Grigoris A. Miliaresis
The various sources don’t agree about its exact beginnings; they do about its birthplace (it is Tokushima Prefecture in Shikaku Island) but no one seems...
LETTERS FROM A FLOATING WORLD
Flowers of fire
text and photo by
Grigoris A. Miliaresis
The adverse comments that followed the virtual fireworks in the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony would have never been uttered in Japan if only for one reason:...
LETTERS FROM A FLOATING WORLD
Summer nights
text and photo by Grigoris A. Miliaresis
Although, at least according to some sources, they are related the casual (and the not so casual) observer will have a hard time finding similarities...
LETTERS FROM A FLOATING WORLD
Summer’s final word
text and photo by Grigoris A. Miliaresis
They appear suddenly, when the Japanese summer reaches its peak, after the tsuyu, the monsoon and before the typhoons. In theory you can find them...