Indian mythical tiles from Japan
It was really by chance that I visited the Mosaic Tile Museum of Tajimi, where the exhibition on…
21 January 2021Goze 3
I was going to end the posts on Goze with the last post, but then I found some…
17 January 2021Goze 2
This is in continuation from the previous post on Goze, the female shaman-minstrels who lived on alms. Around…
13 January 2021Goze 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