Category Archives: Japan

Memorable food

Posted on 2010/10/05 by artnexus

When I lived in Nagano/Japan, friends took me to a restaurant on the compound of Zenko-ji, a majestic and famous Buddhist temple from the 7th century. The food being served there was prepared and cooked in the style of Zen … Continue reading →

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My Butoh friend

Posted on 2010/04/17 by artnexus

In the mid- to late eighties I worked at Moon Basket, a futon store in Berkeley. The owner was a Japanese ex-patriot named Fu who combined creative ingenuity with solid common sense, which guaranteed the success of her store. Besides … Continue reading →

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With rotten butter against whale-killers

Posted on 2008/03/07 by artnexus

Side-stepping a 1986 global moratorium that prohibits all commercial whaling, Japan is again using a loophole that allows “lethal research” on the giant mammals. They kill about 1000 whales a year for “scientific studies”. Greenpeace claims that [C]atching whales for … Continue reading →

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More pictures

Posted on 2007/09/15 by artnexus

I’ve updated my photography website — it’s far from perfect, f.e. I haven’t been able to find a way to add captions to the slide show images, so one doesn’t know what one is looking at, most of the time. … Continue reading →

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Kumiko Namba

Posted on 2007/08/21 by artnexus

Japanese textile artist and associate professor of textile design at the Okayama Prefectural University in Japan, Kumiko Namba, exhibits some of her work at the Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, NM from August 24 to September 29, 2007, with … Continue reading →

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Little Boy

Posted on 2007/08/06 by artnexus

is the nickname of the atomic bomb the B-29 Enola Gay bomber dropped on August 6, 1945 on Hiroshima. It killed about 140,000 people instantly and within the first year, almost all of them civilians. The death toll rose to … Continue reading →

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poetic decay

Posted on 2007/01/27 by artnexus

These images make you feel good (well, if you like crumbling walls, paint peeling off, dusty tablecloths, dried and brittle flowers, rusty fences, broken windows…). I imagine the photographer experiences compassion and love for things that have a history, objects … Continue reading →

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