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The Fish Market
In central Tokyo, the biggest fish market in the world attracts damn near as many people as the Grand Canyon every year. Its proper name is, “Th...
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FireCat of the Tokyo Hotel, Chicago
The Tokyo Hotel on Ohio, in Chicago, is a shithole. It’s the kind of place I once feared I’d be found dead in. The customer reviews for this p...
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Ueno Park Red Bird
I was thinking of my friends in New Orleans as I made this piece, the beads and ornamentation, the echo of Lafcadio Hearn who left New Orleans t...
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The Emerald Fish of Toto Jinja
In the middle of Harajuku in the center of Tokyo, there is a public park called Togo Jinja and it is a lovely green in the middle of a consume...
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Girl of the Falling Planets,
I’ve written a lot of love poems. This one is kind of a love poem for Japan or, more specifically, Tokyo. It is seductive and full of secrets ...
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The Spider Music
When my daughter Gaby was small, I used to read her my favorite children’s book, Charlotte’s Web. it was a gorgeous allegory about right and wro...
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The Yellow River
Do you not see the waters of the Yellow RiverCome flowing from the sky?The swift stream pours into the sea and returns never-more?
– Li Po, An ...
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Koi for Li-Po
Li Po has been the best known Chinese poet in Asia for about the last thousand years. He was a huge influence on the haiku poets — and is cred...
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Shinjuku Sparrow
In the Shinjuku district, there is most of the cool shopping in Japan, with bold graphics and bling everywhere. You can walk by a window of a d...
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