This lily, native to Japan, is called ひがん花, higanbana, because it blooms during the week of the autumnal equinox, and is always on time for 彼岸, Higan, the equinoctial Buddhist festival which is marked by visits to family graves and other observances. Higan means, “the other shore”, this side being ignorance and the other enlightenment. [...]
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On October 5th, the 26th annual Highland Games will be held in Makuhari, central Chiba City area. Dedicated pipers, caber tossers, highland dancers and footballers will be there.
Here’s a tough Japanese piper in Japan’s Northern Alps. Anybody would have trouble playing Scotland the Brave at 2997 meters, I’m sure.
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I’ve started guerilla gardening in the sideyard, putting in a few fall-flowering bulbs and herbs. The soil on the back slope looks good enough to grow vegetables in. All that space behind the building is untended, and in a country where arable land is expensive, I find it so wasteful to not work this patch.
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At the Kashiwa Information Center (Vat Building, Kashiwa east exit), you’ll find these cute Ecopost-kun, recycling boxes for used clothing. Ecopost-kuns eat your used clothing (wash it before you feed him your old glad rags) and the fabric is reworked into new art through the Kashiwa Fashion Recycle Project. At the moment, the Post-kun boxes are only [...]
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