Thank you for your hard work! 　 This is Umino~~. 　 　 It’s already September, yet we’re still sweltering in mid […]

To begin with The year 1543 is recorded in history textbooks as the year “Portuguese sailors drifted ashore on […]

To begin with It’s needless to say current Japan’s capital is Tokyo, however, deep down in the hearts of true […]

To begin with Soseki Natume, a literary giant of the Meiji era often mentioned alongside Ogai Mori, is known f […]

Hello everyone. It’s hot today as well. Please be extremely careful about heatstroke. Now then, I have come to […]

To begin with: Something my friend who lives in Iwakura, Kita Ward, had been saying for some time. “There are […]

To begin with The season of Gion Festival has come along this year as well. This spectacular festival unfolds […]

Thank you for your hard work! This is Umino. Just the other day it was pouring rain with thunder and lighting, […]

　 Unrefined people may not realize it until they are in their coffins. The harsh Kyoto dialect: “Refusal Editi […]

Photo of Folk Crusaders members Photo of Imjin River To begin with Folk Crusaders, a band from Kyoto that chan […]

At the beginning When people outside of the Kansai region think of Kamigata language, what comes to their mind […]

A book published several years ago titled “I hate Kyoto” by Dr. Shoichi Inoue, director of the Center for the […]

I will now introduce the people who, when I was a child, brightened and enlivened our daily lives in Kyoto. Th […]

I see, this is the “Kodo Gyoganji Temple.”   I was deeply moved by my visit to Gyoganji that day. Gyoganj […]

Although I have been here several times, this may be the first time I have felt healing. Under the clear May s […]