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Senshu:
Breakfast at Sakiko’s: natto, rice, fried egg, ham, miso soup, sauteed bitter gourd,
In the mountains by car:
Mizumadera temple, only 3-story pagoda in Osaka Prefecture
Iyoyaka no sato (onsen)
Kishiwada City:
Ramen
Kendo class
Kishiwada-jo
Donjiri museum
Bamboo shop
back to Senshuu:
Sukiyaki at Sakiko’s
Lawson for Hanshin chiketto (sold out)
JR train to Tennoji
return to Hokousou
Tokyo, leave Hotel Kazasaya
Coffee at Tully’s (excellent and expensive)– the first time I’d seen the little sugar syrup containers.
Stationery shop in Nihonbashi, great to load up on postcards before we get on the Shinkansen.
Tokyo Eki– a great mall and food court
Shinkansen to Osaka
Osaka
Check in at Tabinoyado Hokousou, explain we won’t be staying that night but we want to pay for the room so we have somewhere to stash our bags and that we want to add another night onto the end of our reservation. A little challenging in pidgin Japanese.
Go to Kunio’s English class and then hit a local izakaya w class, Kunio’s treat: okonomiyake and other delicious stuff!
Catch the last train of the night for Sakiko’s place south of Osaka.
So after landing, taking the Narita express train into Tokyo station and walking to the hotel (many thanks to John for loaning us the amazing Tokyo city atlas), we set out in search of some dinner. A couple of places were full and Nihonbashi seems to be more of a business area so some places were closed, but we did find a welcoming izakaya to grab a bite before collapsing into bed at 10:30.
Neither of us appears to have much jet lag, and we’re thinking that the no-jet-lag pills recommended to us by Tony actually worked.
The shinkansen is due to stop in Osaka in a few minutes.
Here in the Northwest Territories; I’ve never been, though it’s a tad dry for my taste and I can’t say I’m into -61 temperatures. Disappointing that we missed Saskatchewan by what looks like a couple of millimeters.
Including our first food picture: BBQ chicken with shrimp cocktail and salad. More water, please!
Still July 15.
Elaine looked like robocop with her bag structures. I preferred to be able to see while I dreamt.
She watched Milk. Speaking of that, our cabin attendant likes his coffee with lots of sugar and can make slippers appear out of thin air. I’m glad we didn’t have to borrow his. Time to stretch before we hit some turbulence.
Just found out this week (due to voting on a membership dues survey) that the most recent issue of ARLIS/NA Reviews, covering new books in art history and related disciplines, has been posted.
This issue (June 2008) includes my review of Robert Verhoogt’s Art in Reproduction: Nineteenth-Century Prints after Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Jozef Israëls and Ary Scheffer: http://www.arlisna.org/resources/reviews/index.html
Direct link to review PDF: http://www.arlisna.org/resources/reviews/2008/06/Verhoogt.pdf
(ARLIS/NA = Art Libraries Society of North America.)
Reading a bit about the financial crisis when I came across this picture of William H. Gross, co-head of Pacific Investment Management Company. Strange to see a financial-type with his tie completely undone & shirt unbuttoned, microphone lying on the table. Perhaps this crisis is worse than I thought, and I think it’s pretty awful.
from NY Times.
I was glad to find out today that the Guggenheim chose Richard Armstrong as its new Director– I remember taking several trips to the Carnegie in Pittsburgh and was especially impressed by his 1995 International there. It will be nice having him right around the corner.
My heart nearly jumped out of my rib cage this afternoon when I noticed Concord grapes on the shelf in the produce section as I was picking up a couple things for the week’s meals.
Concord grapes are my number one favorite food (that’s saying a lot if you know how much I like food) and I look forward to this time every year when they appear for a brief span. Perhaps I wouldn’t like them so much if they were permanently around– more proof of the benefits of eating (relatively) locally.
I was just getting over the post-Labor Day <sigh> I experience on that particular Monday night every year. Can’t help thinking that the summer attitude is losing its grip though I am trying to hang on, so this is a welcome development. Their appearance was a sweet way to get on with it already!
One of my favorite things to do is to make lists, but this fall after seeing the NY magazine fall preview I decided I’d really try to make this an Art fall. So here’s their list of 30 “unmissable exhibitions ” and I’m challenging myself to see each of them. (If you bother to count, there are more than 30 because NY mag lumped a couple together in the original list.)
For my own convenience I’ve reordered them by closing date. Original article: http://nymag.com/guides/fallpreview/2008/art/49472/
Reading: Movies at home
