Places

Where is Sano, anyway?
Sano Thumbnails (General photos of the area)
Old Sano Photos (well, "olde-worlde")
Snow! comes to Sano, January 2001
Walls - and a touch of 3-D geometry
Not walls! - concrete foundations, reinforcing rods, coffee cans, bicycles, umbrellas, and the Venetorium
Pipes - yeah, photos of pipes!
Lion toothpaste (?)
Huh? (photo puzzles in and around Sano)

Plants

• Higanbana - Lycoris radiata, the red spider lily
• Sendangusa - Bidens frondosa, "Plant-Watcher's bane"
• Wild azaleas - Rhododendron kaempferi, in the hills above Sano
• Goldenrod vs. Susuki - The invader Solidago altissima takes on native Miscanthus sinensis
• Tochi-no-ki - Aesculus turbinata, the Japanese horse chestnut (Tochigi-ken is "Conker County")
• Biwa - Eriobotrya japonica, the loquat
• Megi - Berberis thunbergii, Japanese barberry
• Ginkgo - Ginkgo biloba, the maidenhair tree (Part 2: origins)
• Hanadaikon - Orychophragmus violaceus
• How a paddy-field works - Growing Oryza sativa

A Reunion of Trees - How trees travel the world: a review of the highly recommended book by Stephen Spongberg, of the Arnold Arboretum, Boston Massachusetts

And more... !

Topics

Words and writing
No descenders, thanks - we're Japanese!

Eating and drinking
(So far there's only the imo-fry restaurant)

Musical activities

In Japanese: Singing opera in Italian - Reference material for Oyama Opera Ensemble. You might find it interesting how one can gloss Italian into Japanese by writing "backwards", for example in the famous chorus from Aida.

The Shop

Jigsaw puzzles: scenery and art from Japan
Index/Links: guide to all shop pages and external resources
Browse/Order: thumbnail search page
FAQ: all about purchasing

"THE MAP" - high quality maps of Japan at bargain prices!