My thesis supervisor once told me that the main secret of Kazuyo Sejima is that she somehow manages to turn naive childlike plans and abstractly diagrammatic sketches into physically realizable buildings. They are hard to maintain and often inconvenient for daily life but very, very impressive. I agree

Found a little piece of rural Russia in Kanazawa, very different from the surrounding Japanese style houses.

Some confidential source from Russian ministry of foreign affairs said that 5 extra people that were taken on the Tokyo-Moscow flight despite the official list of 174 people (for of 294 available seats) caused an overload of the airplane since it also contained a huge amount of overdue postal mail from Japan. In any case, postal services from Japan are experiencing month-long delays and my matcha/books selling initiative has to wait until better times. For now I will be trying out different samples I bought from Uji just before everything closed. I recorded my daily tea ritual so here’s a little tutorial for the future

I know I should be writing my thesis since less than two weeks left before the submission but heck I decided to chill out and do something I love for a change today. I compiled a shortlist of the most notorious danchi in Tokyo metropolitan area for those of you who are already there or will buy their ticket first thing after this pandemic ends. http://www.kunokumo.com/ultimate-tokyo

Ladies and gentelmen, last week I submitted the text of my thesis and finally got some free time which means a new post is ready and waiting for you! Read “How to Approach Japanese Architecture from the West” at http://www.kunokumo.com/field-trip