Christmas time in Holland
Yesterday, I arrived in the Netherlands. I will spend the Holiday Season here with my family. And it was snowing! What a beautiful way to start the Holiday Season! Continue Reading
Posts Tagged ‘Nature’
Autumn
It was a beautiful day today after quite a rainy night. I went to North-, Kita Kamakura to the Pottery Museum to see a show of a friend. Near the Engaku-ji (a Zen Buddhist temple) were some beautiful trees, which had turned their colors. More people were watching. It was fascin ... Continue Reading
Snow on Fujisan!
I have to write a lot of blogs, because many events happened, but this one is a quick one. Yesterday, it was our first real cold night with an icy wind. So autumn really arrived. And from our balcony around 11:00 in the morning we were able to see Mount Fuji with snow on the top! ... Continue Reading
Dragon boat races in Enoshima
On Sunday, yesterday, we bicyled to Enoshima, which is a small island near Kamakura and famous for her goddess of Music and Entertainment, Benzaiten, who is enshrined on the island and who is said to have made it rise from the bottom of the sea in the sixth century. It was a bea ... Continue Reading
Typhoon in Kamakura
Last night and this morning we experienced a typhoon! Our little house was shaking from the terribly strong gusts of wind and the rain mixed with sand from the beach was slashing against our windows. We had closed our shutters which are made from iron which increased the sound o ... Continue Reading
Sunset after storm, Mount Fuji
Yesterday, we had a terrible storm passing through and the wind was blowing so hard, that the house was shaking once in a while. We don’t only shake from earthquakes here! But then after the storm, just during sunset, the colors of the sky were incredible. We saw Fuji-san ... Continue Reading
My exhibition at Koyasan
Mount Koya (Koyasan) is a 900 meter high plateau surrounded by eight peaks. The eight peaks are thought to represent the eight petals of a lotus in bloom, which is suggestive of the core of a mandala with its eight deities arrayed on the eight petals of a lotus, and with the cen ... Continue Reading
Posted in Blog on July 17, 2009
Shiratori (crane) sliding doors
Koyasan is beautiful. The temples are so nice and well maintained and the artwork especially the paintings, sumie on the sliding doors “fusuma” are wonderful and so exquisite. My Japanese artist name is “Shiratori”: white bird and so, I have some extra int ... Continue Reading
Posted in Blog on April 17, 2009
In Miharu at Kusakabe-san’s house
It is evening and I hear the frogs croak really loud like a whole orchestra! I arrived here in Miharu, Fukushima last Tuesday to work, throw some pots, at Kusakabe-san’s place and fire a kiln. Miharu means “Three spring”: the first 3 blossoms in spring are: plum ... Continue Reading
Just in time for Sakura!
After being in the US for a while, I finally returned to Kamakura, Japan. Three years ago when we moved partially to Kamakura, we were just in time to see some “Sakura” and the Spring parade. It was a wonderful start to enter Japan. Now again, after making the decisi ... Continue Reading
