Tsukimi
Tonight in Japan, it is Tsukimi! This is the moon viewing festival, when people celebrate the harvest, and the moon is considered to be at its most beautiful. Tsukimi takes its origins from the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, which is a major event in the Chinese lunar year. Tsukimi and...
Shimogamo Noryo Second Hand Book Fair
I don’t love summer in Japan. The skies are big and blue and full of giant fluffy cumulonimbus clouds, the trees and grass are green and growing, the birds are singing, and it is unbearably, unspeakably, unbelievably hot. Stepping out, even for five minutes, is a guaranteed way to...