
A Japanese mind in the Western world — exploring life, art, sport, and human potential through the lens of Japanese philosophy.
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The other day, I read D_Lab’s article, “Will it rain tomorrow?” (明日、雨降る?) I like his unique sensibility, and we keep in touch through Substack. While reading his article this time, something sparked an...
Source: National Diet Library, Japan (NDL Image Bank).
Japan has five seasonal festivals called sekku (節句). Among them, this festival on September 9th is said to carry an especially strong energy. It is called Chōyō no Sekku (重陽の節句), or Ki...
Katsuobushi and its shaving box (削り箱), here in my own kitchen
Inspired by an article on katsuobushi by Hiromi👾, the fermentation researcher by the sea, whose work I always find insightful, I would like to write about dashi (出汁), a fundame...
Henri Matisse, Dance (I), 1909. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. Photograph by the author, 2006.
On a summer morning in California, some thin clouds drifted in an endlessly blue sky. As I gazed at them absently, a...
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I believe that exchanging greetings is a vital part of human relationships. And this is true in Japan too. If you cannot greet others properly, you get labeled negatively in various ways.
I...
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Awakening innate human potential through the fusion of ancient Japanese wisdom and science. From California, I explore life, art, sport, and everything in between — through the lens of Japanese philosophy, rediscovered in my 50s.
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