It was windy but a lovely day. I finally felt that It's nice to be back in Japan. Because I finally started something that I wanted to...

It is getting chilly and leaves are turning red and yellow in my area. The landscape is shouting "it's autumn!!" Mandarin duc...

少し前になるが、ジャパン・バード・フェスティバル、大磯宿場まつりと秋のにわか露天商が今年も無事に終わった。お祭りの屋台の食べ物、おもちゃを見ると、日本だな！と感じる。自分がブースにいるとまったく他をまわったり、スケッチする時間がないのだが、宿場まつりでこまたんの「あおばとや」の目...

Missing my friends from Cambridge, I had to do something for Halloween! Every year, we carved at least a pumpkin, decorated our house, ate...

While I was stuck at home working, autumn had finally arrived here. For the last two days I managed to go out with my sketchbooks for an ho...

千葉県我孫子市の手賀沼で開かれるジャパン・バード・フェスティバルが来週末に迫っている。今年は3年ぶりに「きびだんご」に新顔が！ 菊団子 A new face, the goldcrest, joined our bird juggling ball series! Autumn ...

地元、横浜の友達の結婚のお祝いに！ The Japanese name of this Bali Myna from Indonesia is Kanmuri-shiromuku. "Shiromuku" literary means a white sta...

I am having hard time adjusting myself to the life in Japan. Everything is rather stressful here! There are little space in the house and ...

My linoleum print of the Jungle Crow was used for the Japanese version of Gifts of the Crow ! My mother translated this book into Japanese...

It was right after I came back to Japan but I visited Fukushima, Sendai, Ishinomaki and Kesennuma, the area where the earthquake and tsunami...