Homemade mochibana to welcome the new year.

May 2025 be a year to bring joy with something you create.

Dinner doesn’t have to be complicated.

When you have only a few days to spend in a place, especially if it’s a gastronomy capital like Kyoto, the pressure is on to…

It's Kiyomizu-dera but probably not one that you've seen. A 20-minute film that took about three years to produce, Kiyomizu - Cycle of Blessings shows…

A friend is debugging a website, a troubleshooting canary in the e-commerce mines.

The problem? 

If you put too many things in your cart…

Welcome.

Years ago, when I moved to Kyoto, I started a blog called The Sound of One Hand Waving.

Much has been learned since then and…

You have to prepare for snowfall in Kyoto simply because there isn't much of it.

Even if there's enough snow to send photographers rushing to Kinkaku-ji to take that classic shot of the golden pavilion under white, chances are…