Osaka at New Year, a block of stone-hard mochi, and the task a father left for an American hand to cut.
Nagasawa Kanae (1852-1934) was born a samurai but spent nearly his entire adult life in Santa Rosa
I wrote a meditation on studying the kuzushiji text of 牛屋雑談. These are the citations that support the historical facts in that essay.
The year Tokyo discovered beef, in a bestseller almost no one can read now. Two friends decode it across an ocean.
Edo commoners practicing writing in a terako
Sharing my process of learning to read old Japanese
How to Find, Prepare, and Print a Ukiyo-e at FedEx
