Kyoto Prefectural Library & Archives

京都府立図書館 Kyoto Prefectural Library & Archives is located in the Okazaki museum district of Kyoto opposite the Kyoto Municipal…

Instafreebie Book Giveaway

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! (If you celebrate) I was going to post about the momiji at Dazaifu (went there with a friend yesterd…

NLB Exhibition: From the Stacks

I've been wanting to go to the From the Stacks exhibition, and I finally managed to make it! At first, I was quite scared th…

NLB Exhibitions

With this, I finish recapping the noteworthy and sharable parts of my Singapore trip, and can move on to the things that have bee…

Makoto Wada’s Movie Inspired Art 3: European Classics

Makoto Wada ( 和田誠 , b. 1936) is best known as an illustrator whose work has adorned the pages of writers as diverse as Shinichi …

Japan in Germany 13: Eine Fotoreise durch das alte Japan (1985)

Eine Fotoreise durch das alte Japan ( A Photographic Journey through Old Japan ) was published by Harenberg in 1985.  The author…

Makoto Wada’s Movie Inspired Art 1: Early Hollywood

Makoto Wada ( 和田誠 , b. 1936) is best known as an illustrator whose work has adorned the book covers and pages of writers as dive…

Flirting With Japan, Donald Richie's Mistress Muse

Richie smitten in Tokyo in the 50s. Via . Donald Richie, the noted critic of Japanese culture and film, compares the experience o…