Museums

Chiharu Shiota’s “Memory of Lines” on Teshima (November 2025)

A room filled with red thread that made me gasp. Chiharu Shiota's "Memory of Lines" on Teshima, seen at the Setouchi Triennale 2025 - 37 km of thread woven around old noodle-making machines, a little frightening and impossible to look away from.

Shinro Ohtake: Retina at MIMOCA (November 2025)

A solo day trip to Marugame for Shinro Ohtake: Retina at MIMOCA: Taniguchi architecture, drowning in the details of Dub-Hei & New Chanel, plus the Anpanman train and bone-in chicken.

Kyushu’s National Treasures: Kyuhaku’s Beautiful Bounty (July 2025)

I went to Dazaifu to see the National Treasure sword Heshikiri Hasebe, and came home smitten with a doll-shaped ginseng. A solo day of swords, ginseng, and umegae-mochi.

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