Month: November 2010

  • Pictures of Mayuki

    We held Mayuki’s Shichigosan a couple of weeks ago, and hired Yuriko’s friend Sonoe to take photographs. She’s now put some of the photographs up on her blog, so you can go to see them. The text is all in Japanese, of course.

  • Libraries, Scholarships, and the Open Meeting

    This entry has been very delayed, because my parents were over for Mayuki’s 7-5-3, and I didn’t have much time for writing the blog. I’ve not written about the 7-5-3 yet, because I’m waiting for Sonoe’s photographs, but I do plan to. I also plan to write something about our visit to Nara. Today, however,…

  • Shinto Traditions Course — Hachiman

    This year’s Shinto course at Kokugakuin University came to an end this week, with a discussion of the Hachiman shrines. By one measure, this tradition boasts the highest number of shrines, and unlike most other traditions those shrines are spread evenly across the whole country (apart from Okinawa, which is a special case). The count,…

  • Email Address Change

    Thanks to ridiculous amounts of spam coming to my david@davidchart.com address, I will be retiring it in the very near future. If you are using it to contact me and I haven’t already told you the new one, you can use the contact link in the left column to find out. Oddly, I’m having the…