Notojima‘s other main attraction is the glass art museum, which features international glass ranging from the practical to the abstract.
The design of the museum itself is sleek, playful, and modern.
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Noto: Notojima Glass Art Museum
Posted in Art, Art, Noto, Photography, Rural Life, Travel, tagged art, contemporary art, 能登島, 能登島ガラス美術館, glass, glass art, Ishikawa, modern art, Nanao, Notojima, Travel on 2013/07/28| 2 Comments »
The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know…
Posted in Reblog, tagged A Man with Tea, culture, graduate school, japan, Japanese studies, reblog, Travel on 2013/07/14| 2 Comments »
Speaking of writing about studying another culture and having humility, check out Toranosuke’s excellent piece on the moment when you realize you how much you don’t know about your field over on A Man with Tea.
Whenever I’ve heard (or read) people say things like “the more you learn, the more you realize how little you know,” I always used to think it referred to a breadth and depth of detailed knowledge. The more you learn about Japan, the more you realize how little you know about England, the Netherlands, or Korea (not to mention Botswana or Guyana); at the same time, the more you learn about any given aspect of Japanese culture or history (for example), the more you realize just how many other castles, samurai lords, artists, events & incidents, works of literature, or whatever it may be, that you still don’t know about. Plus, even within any given topic, the more you know about Hokusai or Danjûrô or Saga Castle, for example, the more you realize just how much more about that same topic you still don’t know. That’s all certainly…
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Noto: Notojima Aquarium
Posted in Expat Living, Ishikawa, Noto, Photography, Rural Life, Sight-seeing, tagged japan, jellyfish, manta ray, Nanao, Noto, Notojima, photography, Travel on 2013/07/10| 1 Comment »
On the second day of our roadtrip, we headed to Notojima, a small island in Nanao Bay, halfway between Anamizu and Nanao, which is connected to the mainland by two bridges. It’s one of my favorite places in Ishikawa: the annual Notojima Te-Matsuri Craft Fair in October is always a treat, and it’s hard not to fall in love with Notojima’s scenic charms.
One of Notojima’s main attractions is the Notojima Aquarium (能登島水族館). Tickets are available at conbini nearby (for a discount) or at the door.
This cloudy day was great for exploring the aquarium.
Noto: Four Seasons of Mitsukejima
Posted in Noto, tagged Battleship Rock, 見附島, japan, Mitsukejima, Noto, Okunoto, photography, Suzu, Travel on 2013/06/20| 5 Comments »
From Senmaida, we took the 249 toward Suzu, the northernmost town in the Noto Peninsula. Suzu’s main landmark is Mitsukejima (見附島), also known as “Battleship Rock.” It was cloudy and later in the day when we arrived, so I wanted to share some other photos I’ve taken over the years.
Winter 2010
The winters in the Noto are cold and snowy, and nowhere so much as Suzu. The winter sea is harsh, but it makes Mitsukejima and all the shores seem so dramatic, even melancholy.
Noto: Senmaida; or, In Which There is Parseltongue
Posted in Noto, Photography, Rural Life, tagged 能登, Harry Potter, Ishikawa, japan, Noto, Okunoto, parseltongue, photography, road trip, Senmaida, snake, Travel, Wajima, 千枚田, 奥能登 on 2013/06/05| 2 Comments »
I’m very much a city person, but I do like to escape to the country on occasion, and the Okunoto, the northernmost part of Ishikawa’s Noto Peninsula (能登半島) is just the place to get away for a weekend. As a victory lap of Ishikawa, some of my friends and I drove around the 249 during the last weekend in May.
The 249 is a long drive, taking roughly 2 hours (nonstop) from Anamizu to Wajima to Suzu to Noto and back to Anamizu. Two or three day-long trips are really needed to cover it all, but we tried to hit some of my favorite spots, spending one day exploring the Okunoto and the second in the Notojima area near Nanao. RocketNews24 had a good short guide to the Noto, but I’d like to show off the area in photos, starting with Senmaida (千枚田), the “Thousand Rice Fields.”
Discover a different side of Japan in the Noto Peninsula
Posted in Ishikawa, Noto, Reblog, tagged Ishikawa, japan, Noto, reblog, RocketNews24, Travel on 2013/05/29| 2 Comments »
I’m planning to do some posts on the Noto after my recent trip there, so I was pleased to see that RocketNews24 did one as well! Enjoy!
The Pavilion of Natadera
Posted in Ishikawa, Photography, tagged Buddhism, Buddhist temple, Ishikawa, japan, Natadera, photography, temple, Travel on 2013/05/01| Leave a Comment »
I’ve mentioned the precipitation of Ishikawa quite a few times on my photo posts. Even though it makes biking unpleasant and battling household mold a challenge in older homes, the constant rain in Ishikawa does make for a lush landscape.
Do you have a letter for me?
Posted in Fukui, Photography, tagged cliffs, Fukui, geography, japan, ocean, photography, pyroxene andesite, rock pillars, sea, Tojinbo, Travel on 2013/04/24| Leave a Comment »
Mr Postman, do you have a letter for me?
A letter for me
From my own true love
Lost at sea
-The Decemberists – “From My Own True Love (Lost at Sea)”
I wrote about Tôjinbô (東尋坊) once in 2009, when I went on a road trip to Fukui. (It seems like a million years ago.) I only posted one photo(!), so today I’ll share some from my return trip in March 2012.
The thing about living or traveling in Hokuriku is how moody the landscape seems, particularly in autumn and winter. (more…)
The Floating Urban Oasis
Posted in Nagoya, Photography, Sight-seeing, tagged japan, Nagoya, oasis 21, photography, Travel on 2013/03/17| 2 Comments »
Oasis 21, Sakae, Nagoya, Feb. 2012
Living in Ishikawa’s constant cloud cover means that traveling to other cities, especially in the winter, is a welcome change of pace just for the sunshine. (more…)
Petals on a Wet, Black Bough
Posted in Kanazawa, Photography, tagged Ezra Pound, flowers, In the Station of the Metro, Ishikawa, japan, Kanazawa, petals, photography, plum blossoms, plums, poem, poetry, spring, Travel on 2013/03/09| 2 Comments »
“In a Station of the Metro”
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
— Ezra Pound
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