This is the twelfth in the series of Japanese Iroha Karuta playing card deck. Both of my karuta decks use the same proverb to illustrate the twelfth syllable in the “Iroha” hiragana syllabry. However, the twelfth syllable poses Iroha Karuta deck designers with a bit of a problem. That is [Read more…]
A lot of the local trains that head out of Hiroshima Station on the JR Sanyo line that takes you past Miyajima terminate at Iwakuni. Iwakuni is famous for its picturesque Kintaikyo Bridge (I should really take some pics of it to post on Liketu), the US Marine base, and… [Read more…]
A pile of boxes covered the floor of the tatami anteroom of the residence of the senior docs. It transpired that the senior doc and the lady wife had been clearing out some cupboards in anticipation of the celebrated ritual of Japanese New Year house-cleaning. They had dug out a [Read more…]
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