To hell with cutlery; sometimes a person just wants to grab hold of something chunky and tasty, and deliver it,…
Richard Koyama-DanielsMarch 25, 2025
Without the hard-won home-cooking skills required to rustle up, on occasion, a plate of semi-palatable food for myself, it’s doubtful…
Richard Koyama-DanielsFebruary 20, 2025
A visit to a likely-heaving (Buddhist) temple to see out the old year (when the 108 worldly desires of attendees…
Richard Koyama-DanielsJanuary 9, 2025
It is early November and the Tokyo weather has taken an abrupt, and somewhat overdue, turn toward the autumnal. The…
Richard Koyama-DanielsNovember 28, 2024
I don’t particularly like new stuff. It makes me sad, for example, to think of factories churning out an ever-growing…
Richard Koyama-DanielsOctober 22, 2024
I spent much of my time in Britain, in the latter half of the 1990s, hoisting kegs of real ale…
Richard Koyama-DanielsOctober 8, 2024
Across many parts of the western world, the bitter gray tedium of winter is made just about bearable by the…
Richard Koyama-DanielsSeptember 13, 2024
As a boy in the early 1980s, I would spend many happy hours in the art supplies and stationery section…
Richard Koyama-DanielsSeptember 5, 2024
Just a short walk from the Gojo Bridge, site of the warrior-monk Benkei’s fateful 1,000th duel, there is a typically…
Richard Koyama-DanielsAugust 16, 2024
The charms of Kyoto, curated over centuries, are in such abundance that it can seem like an enchanted city. There…
Richard Koyama-DanielsJuly 29, 2024
The curvaceous and holey Henry Moores that dotted the landscape of my pre-Banksy UK youth, were to me, the face…
Richard Koyama-DanielsJuly 16, 2024
Over the years, one of the least wasteful ways I have found to waste my time, has been to head…
Richard Koyama-DanielsJuly 4, 2024
