Machiya Restoration

Kyoto is probably the only major Japanese city with so many standing wooden structures. And these wooden homes and offices called…

Daimaru Villa Kyoto

大丸ヴィラ The Daimaru Villa on Karasuma Dori in Kyoto is adjacent to Marutamachi subway station and just south of Sugawarain Tenmangu…

Red Bricks building of Ichikawa

Sketch from recent workshop in support of preserving red brick building in Ichikawa town with high schoolers. I was facilitator o…

Tokyo University and red bricks

Went to see the University of Tokyo a while ago, drew a sketch. I like the buildings, made of red bricks! Some of them remain in …

Near the station in Matsudo

Today was very hot. On my way home I drew a house, which I spotted some time ago. Close to station there are many pachinko slots,…

松戸の原田米店

Here is Matsudo stories again. Today I want to show you the building of old Harada rice shop . Surrounded by high-rises, it remai…

Shinjuku's Underground Labyrinth (or The Tunnels of Shinjuku)

I was sick of the rain on a damp, rainy morning on my last trip to Japan.  It had rained for four days out of seven when I was th…

Rebuilding From The Rubble: Three Japanese Architects Construct Amidst Destruction

Tadao Ando's Benesse House Oval on the island of Naoshima.  Via . After years of toxic emissions from refineries built durin…