All posts related to Japan. There are a lot of them.
It took me a year, but the Kiso-ji section of the Nakasendō from Shiojiri to Nakatsugawa is now complete. Pre-baby-toddler daughter and I would have finished it much sooner, but I quite enjoyed stretching it out over a year – it meant I got to see the Kiso Valley in all seasons.
Our daughter turned two last week. When she was born in the autumn of 2019 I was in Kyoto meeting a good friend. It wasn’t until 4 months later that we learnt that in all likelihood our daughter would become our daughter.
read more Our Daughter’s Birthday / A Brief Post on Adoption in Japan
Late October means school sports days taking place at all the local elementary schools. Usually held at the weekend they are being held during the week this year due to the pandemic.
Photos from the past. Life in Japan and elsewhere, by me Sean Breslin. Updated weekly.
I’ve spent more money on ink and paper this month than I have in years. Why? Well, I’ve been going through my catalog of photos dating back to 1995 and making contact sheets of select images from every month. Yes, every month from 1995 to September 2021.
read more Archiving Memories – Contact Prints in a Digital World
There are times out in the middle of nowhere when you can’t believe that you are actually there and this was one of them. Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya—big cities all unimaginable while stood at the summit of places like this.
The weather this August—torrential rain day after day for almost two weeks. One of my goals this month was to do plenty of hiking, with Mt. Shiomi (塩見岳) in the Minami Alps being the main objective. Mt. Shiomi is a mountain I’ve wanted to climb for some time now but never quite managed it.
I first visited the small town of Wajima (輪島) on the Noto Peninsula (能登半島) while on a bike packing trip back in 2015. Protruding out into the Sea of Japan on the Hokuriku coast (北陸), the Noto Peninsula is one of my favourite places in Japan, and one that has been regularly visited since that first trip.
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