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Toshio Shibata's best photograph: a red bridge at sunset near Ōkawa village

Edit The Guardian 06 Aug 2015
‘Japan was a mess at the time, not a photogenic place at all. So I tried to find beauty in the stuff most people just ignored’. @siancain. When I started out, the only photos I had seen were in newspapers. There was no photography in museums or art galleries in Japan ... Related. Rising from the ashes. snapshots of hope and renewal in postwar Japan – in pictures ... I shot it in 2007, when I was driving around Kōchi prefecture, in southern Japan ....

The other Patna...Patna in Scotland!

Edit Zeenews 04 Aug 2015
You may have heard of a 'Dili' in East Timor or 'Kōchi' in Japan, what about a Patna in Scotland! Call it a tribute to the land he spent his best years, William Fullarton, who worked as an employee of the British East India Company, on his return to England named a village as 'Patna' ... ....

A Guide to Lying About Eating at Noma Japan

Edit Medium 21 Apr 2015
What the best restaurant in the world’s Japanese tasting menu tastes like based on words and images. It’s not very difficult nowadays to pretend like you’ve eaten somewhere you haven’t. This isn’t to say it isn’t a pretty shitty—at the very least meaningless—thing to do ... #1 ... ... banpeiyu (pomelo); mikan (mandarin orange); and two types of buntan (from Kōchi) ... A large sweet type of grapefruit grown in the mild climate of the Kōchi Prefecture....
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