I was awake early and spent the morning visiting some of the sub-temples of the Daitokuji Monastery. The Daisen-In, which has a well-known Zen Garden did not allow photography, and was full of tourists, but the Koto-In, which has a wonderful moss garden was peaceful and contemplative. However, it seemed that I saved the best […]
Last night I had an enjoyable evening with Prof Shinsuke Ina and his two colleagues- Isanori Oha and Naoki Nishigushi, who are currently working together on the book translation. They treated me to a delicious meal (as well as several bottles of Kirin Beer!) My Tokyo visit is also now taking shape. I have booked […]
Much of this morning was spent arranging to visit Tokyo and co-ordinating with the curators and artists I want to interview for my research into early Japanese Artists’ video. My plan is to travel to Tokyo on Sept 19th and to stay for several days. It is not proving as easy as I had hoped […]
After lunch today I visited Prof Shinsuke Ina at Kyoto-Seika University who is translating my book, A History of Video Art: The Development of Form and Function into Japanese for Sangensha Publishers in Tokyo. We worked together on some of the details of the translation in Chapter 3.
This morning I cycled along the Kamo-gawa and up into the hills surrounding Kyoto towards Iwakura, stopping at the Jisso-In Temple for lunch.
Here is my Kyoto base, which seems to be a fair way out of town in an area called Kita-Ku, but it is near to the Kamo-Gawa (River Kamo) and I should be able to cycle in to town from here along the river and also to get to and from Kyoto-Seika University, so it […]
I’m still not sure what time it is, or how to find anything, but although it’s only 5:21 AM local time, I’m up and about and trying to organise my little “traditional 3 mat room”….The train ride from Tokyo Narita airport and Kyoto was easy, efficient and comfortable- pity I fell asleep and missed my […]
By the afternoon of Monday, Sept 13th I’ll be on my way to Japan. My flight is due to arrive at Tokyo Narita airport on the morning of Sept 14th and I’ll be taking the famous “Bullet Train” to Kyoto later that day. I plan to keep a blog whilst I’m away, and will try […]