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Jun 22, 2024

A New View Part II: Bringing a Building to Life

Jun 22, 2024

This space, this building we have been imagining, discussing, designing, and dreaming about for a year and a half is COMING. TO. LIFE!

Jun 22, 2024

latest food

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Apr 4, 2024

72 Seasons of Eating

Harvesting Funori Seaweed on the Rocks

Apr 4, 2024

72 Seasons of Eating

Funori was a serendipitous discovery on an afternoon spent roaming the coast with a very outdoorsy crew during our Vernal Equinox session.

Apr 4, 2024

72 Seasons of Eating

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Preserving the Art of Kettle Roasted Tea

May 14, 2024

From the Collective

Preserving the Art of Kettle Roasted Tea

May 14, 2024

From the Collective

Matsuo san set his sights on a new endeavor to produce an exclusive line of organic, hand picked, wood-fueled iron-kettle roasted teas.

May 14, 2024

From the Collective

latest travel

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May 22, 2022

Gogoing on the road

48 Hours on the Shimabara Penninsula

May 22, 2022

Gogoing on the road

Obama offers of the most unique dining experiences in Japan where you can rent baskets to pile high with vegetables and seafood and cook them in the mineral rich steam of the natural hot spring.

May 22, 2022

Gogoing on the road

6/22/24 6/22/24

A New View Part II: Bringing a Building to Life

This space, this building we have been imagining, discussing, designing, and dreaming about for a year and a half is COMING. TO. LIFE!

3/5/24 3/5/24

A Ceremony to Bless and Purify the Land

After a year and a half of design work we are about to begin construction on the new building that will house the Mirukashi salon.

3/21/23 3/21/23

The Mirukashi Salon Gets A New View

I bought a piece of land. Land with a peek-a-boo glimpse of Karatsu Bay. Land pointed at the rising sun. Land just around the corner from my home in Mirukashi.