time is flying by... today marks 8 weeks for me...
here is okaasan showing us how to make homemade red bean mochi
mochi goes in everything. we had plain mochi, mochi in soup, mochi with diakon and soy sauce, and, finally, sweet mochi
there is some sort of performance everyday on campus...
last friday we went on a field trip to a textile factory north of Kyoto by Lake Biwa where we saw them paste paper onto velvet to create this beautiful aged looking material
the cloth selection was to die for
this vending machine at a bus stop has a tv in it
little winding river
traditional tea house with zen garden
mel and the smallest cup of 5 dollar coffee
Aoi Matsuri Festival, Kyoto's largest festival- they have a large parade where people are dressed in traditional Heian period costumes and they march through the streets, stopping at temples to perform ceramonies. We only caught a small part at the Shimogamo-jinji Temple
horses running (thats it, they really didn't do much more as far as we could tell)
a kabuki performance
the cloth selection was to die for
this vending machine at a bus stop has a tv in it
little winding river
traditional tea house with zen garden
mel and the smallest cup of 5 dollar coffee
Aoi Matsuri Festival, Kyoto's largest festival- they have a large parade where people are dressed in traditional Heian period costumes and they march through the streets, stopping at temples to perform ceramonies. We only caught a small part at the Shimogamo-jinji Temple
horses running (thats it, they really didn't do much more as far as we could tell)
a kabuki performance
on sunday, susan and I went to Kobe to meet up with a friend of a friend of hers. We spent most of the day by the harbor, avoiding the crowds and watching bands perform
kobe port
blue grass band called "happy and blue (grass)"
kobe port
blue grass band called "happy and blue (grass)"
what you cannot do while in the park (4th one down)- "playing in park with hard on"
lost in translation maybe...
today i performed a piece i have been working this semester. next week we have our first critique and i will be presenting a short film in which i deconstruct two kimonos publicly
and then used the material to wrap susan
and then i cut mel out of the other one
lost in translation maybe...
today i performed a piece i have been working this semester. next week we have our first critique and i will be presenting a short film in which i deconstruct two kimonos publicly
and then used the material to wrap susan
and then i cut mel out of the other one