Goze 1
“Goze” refers to visually challenged women who used to live by singing at the doors with Shamisen (musical…
8 January 2021Haku-in Zen hymns
There is a genre of Japanese Buddhist hymns called Wasan. Most of the Buddhist Sutras, coming from India,…
3 January 2021Taro Okamoto 1
One day I saw a pair of Oshira deities at a museum in Morioka. One was a horse head,…
26 December 2020
Ganesh and Hiten
I never really explained this painting, painted last year in 2019, thinking that it is kind of obvious,…
22 December 2020
Banaiya Rongmohol Ghor…
The architect of this splendid mansion is in this house itself. The pillars of bones, canopy of skin,…
17 November 2020
Bolo Rosona Hore…
O my tongue, sing the name of Hari. Hare Krishna Hare! I have served you for a long…
20 September 2020
Grandmother’s story
This is not a translation, but I just thought I might write about my paternal grandmother. She passed…
14 August 2020
Ore Amar Mon Pakhi… with Japanese introduction
Video shooting and editing by Takeshi from Muriwui. This is from July 2020. As you can see, it…
27 July 2020Kazuko Mogami 3
Third and last (for the moment) entry introducing the words of Kazuko Mogami (1, 2), an inspiring Butoh…
16 July 2020Kazuko Mogami 2
Second translation entry of inspiring tweets from Kazuko Mogami, a Butoh practitioner. 31st May The act of touching is…
15 July 2020