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Catherine Flutsch
Feb 26, 20243 min read
Cute: Somerset House
★★★ Exhibition Review: Cute, Somerset House, London. Until 14 April 2024. From £11. Book here. [Disclosure: Our reviewer received a free...
Catherine Flutsch
Dec 31, 20233 min read
The Boy and the Heron: Studio Ghibli
★★★ Review: The Boy and the Heron, film by Studio Ghibli, released in the UK on 26 December 2023, and now showing throughout the UK. MILD...
Catherine Flutsch
Nov 23, 20233 min read
KABUKI KIMONO: Costumes of Bandō Tamasaburō V
★★★★★ Exhibition Review: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Until 8 Dec 2024. Curated by Dr Clare Pollard. Free entry. Kabuki Kimono is the...
Charlotte Trichard
Oct 14, 20233 min read
Japan: Myths to Manga: Young V&A
★★★★ Exhibition Review: Japan: Myths to Manga, Open until 8 September 2024. Tickets £10. Book tickets here. [Disclosure: Our young...
Catherine Flutsch
Dec 16, 20223 min read
My Neighbour Totoro: Royal Shakespeare Company
★★★★ Review: My Neighbour Totoro, Joe Hisaishi and Royal Shakespeare Company in collaboration with Improbable and Nippon TV. On at the...
Catherine Flutsch
Apr 13, 20223 min read
All The Lovers In The Night: Mieko Kawakami
★★★★★ Book Review: All The Lovers In The Night by Mieko Kawakami, translated by Sam Bett, David Boyd. To be published on 12 May 2022 in...
Catherine Flutsch
Oct 5, 20216 min read
Mind Travel – Books to Take you to Another Place: Part II
As the leaves turn and the nights close in here in the UK, I find that reading makes my dark evenings exciting and fun rather than cold...
Catherine Flutsch
Jul 30, 20215 min read
Tokyo: Art and Photography
★★★★★ Exhibition Review: Tokyo: Art and Photography Ashmolean Museum, 29 July 2020 – 3 January 2022. Tickets from £6 - £12.25. Free for...
Takashi Sakai
Apr 21, 20212 min read
The Tokyo Olympics
The Olympics is supposed to go ahead on 23 July. In a country where less than 1% of people have been fully vaccinated and just over 1%...
Takashi Sakai
Mar 26, 20212 min read
Hanami in the time of Corona
Spring is the season for new life, new beginnings. As the Japanese fiscal year starts, it is also the season for taking stock. One event...
Catherine Flutsch
Jan 11, 20213 min read
Meditation for those who can’t meditate....
The idea of mediation has always appealed to me. The reality of meditation has not. When meditation gurus tell me to start meditating by...
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