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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Kit Nagamura</title>
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		<title>Solitude is where you find it</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japan travel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under cartoon-blue skies washed by early-autumn typhoons, I stand at Sendaizaka-ue (summit of Sendaizaka Slope) in Tokyo&#8217;s Minato Ward. Sendaizaka was named for daimyo lords from Edo Period (1603-1867) Sendai, now in Miyagi Prefecture, who maintained a yashiki (suburban home) on the slope that today hosts the newly rebuilt Embassy of South Korea. At the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Log-jamming in Shin Kiba</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[agaHa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boom Boom Satellites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hitomi Motoki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kabukiza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Studio Coast]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, readers of this column found me frolicking in the sawdust and lumberyards of Shin Kiba &#8212; meaning &#8220;New Wood Place&#8221; &#8212; which arose on reclaimed land in Tokyo Bay in the 1970s when the city&#8217;s timber businesses were moved there from their traditional home in nearby Kiba to make way for rapid urbanization. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blazing a woodland trail through Shin Kiba</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jun 2013 15:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edo fire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[timber]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Even if you can&#8217;t read the kanji for Shin Kiba, you&#8217;ll sniff out its meaning of &#8220;new wood place&#8221; the moment you arrive. The Yurakucho subway line&#8217;s terminus there in eastern Tokyo smells like a cedar closet. Inside the station, a display of Japanese carpentry — including beams featuring dovetail, mitered and tenon joints — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wisteria wanderings in Kameido</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[daikon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kannon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turtleshell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Each year, I tell myself I have to make time to enjoy the famed trellises of wisteria blossoms at Kameido Tenjin in Tokyo&#8217;s eastern Koto Ward. Then, I blow it. This year, I enlist my mother-in-law, who&#8217;s savvy about such things, to get the timing just right. &#8220;It&#8217;ll be really crowded,&#8221; she warns. Sure enough, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suites, treats and backstreets of the Imperial Hotel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 15:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Frank Lloyd Wright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imperial Hotel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, or "Teikoku Hotel," has occupied the same privileged location, across from Hibiya Park and minutes from the Imperial Palace, for over a century. ]]></description>
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		<title>Spring training in Mukojima</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hyakkaen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kikuu Sahara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mukojima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shigemoto Sahara]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to think of February as springlike, what with snowfalls, freezing winds and a dusting of dead leaves everywhere. But I know from experience that the intrepid Prunus mume, or plum tree, blooms this month, and a trek to see some blossoms seems de rigueur. From the Tobu Isesaki Line, I get off at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mining gems in Okachimachi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On early maps of Edo, as Tokyo was known prior to 1868, Okachimachi is rendered as a town (machi) densely packed with the tiny dwellings of okachi — low-ranked, poorly paid samurai infantry.]]></description>
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		<title>The fall fires of Nishigahara</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Burning to see fall colors, I head to Tokyo&#8217;s northern Kita Ward, where Kyu Furukawa Teien, the former estate of copper magnate Ichibei Furukawa, features not only a traditional Japanese garden but also Western-style flowerbeds of autumn-blooming roses. At this time of the season, it should be ablaze. Emerging from the Nanboku Line&#8217;s Nishigahara Station, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeking out what&#8217;s in store for Kuramae</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Back when Tokyo was Edo and Tokugawa shoguns ruled the land (1603-1867), the burgeoning city&#8217;s most vital staple, rice, was protected in kura (storage houses) along the right bank of the Sumida River. Then, by the simple expedient of adding mae (in front of) to &#8220;kura,&#8221; the area facing the white-washed, thick-walled granaries came to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casting around for the past on Fish-basket Slope</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hoping to find traces of the fishing village that was Edo (present-day Tokyo) before the first Tokugawa Shogun chose the site for his new political capital in the early 1600s, I head to Gyoranzaka (Fish-basket Slope) in the city&#8217;s central Mita district. I don&#8217;t expect the piscine pizzazz of Tsukiji fish market, but on exiting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All the fun of the fair &#8212; and that&#8217;s just the temples</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by this summer&#8217;s Olympic quest for gold medals, I opt to go for the gold myself. Toshimaen amusement park in Tokyo&#8217;s northwestern Nerima Ward is home to Carousel El Dorado, one of the world&#8217;s oldest hand-carved wooden merry-go-rounds. Named for an imaginary city of gold sought by 16th-century Spanish conquistadors around the Amazon basin, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Over the top ambitions in Mukogaoka</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The neighborhood of Mukogaoka &#8212; literally, &#8220;Yonder Hill&#8221; &#8212; huddles under clouds clustered like violet hydrangea blossoms the morning I arrive to explore. From Hon-Komagome Station on the Nanboku subway line, I head east with a cautious eye skyward through a rust belt of shuttered stores, by a sundries stand of lightly grimed goods and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rolling around Sendagi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Yanesen district of central Tokyo, whose name features bits of the names of the three neighborhoods it comprises (Yanaka, Nezu and Sendagi), charms visitors with its temple-studded streets, craft shops and prewar architecture. Oddly, though, maps in either Japanese or English rarely guide visitors west of the Chiyoda subway line&#8217;s Sendagi Station, which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foxtrotting around Asukayama</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Rising amid flat farmland, Asukayama had long been an untended haunt of foxes and their small prey when, in 1720, Yoshimune Tokugawa, the eighth shogun to rule in Edo (present-day Tokyo), had the hilly upland planted with 1,200 cherry trees, 100 maples and 100 pines, to create a public park for flower-viewing. It still draws [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plum nuts about Ikegami</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether you call the Prunus mume a plum or an apricot (it is related to both), the flowers are plum elegant on their leafless, shiny branches and help cheer us through winter&#8217;s finale. To enjoy them to the full, I seek out Ikegami Baien Garden in southern Tokyo&#8217;s Ota Ward, having hopped the Tokyu Ikegami [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venturing into the zone on Showajima</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In his &#8220;Meditation XVII,&#8221; the English Metaphysical poet John Donne wrote in 1623 that &#8220;no man is an island, entire of itself.&#8221; Well, yes &#8212; but some islands are entirely more manly than others. Take Showajima (Showa Island) in Tokyo&#8217;s Ota Ward, for example. Zoned exclusively for heavy industry, it has no shops, dwellings, schools [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blazing trails in Chiyoda&#8217;s gardens</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[With November drawing to a close, I head to the East Garden of the Imperial Palace and the adjacent Kitanomaru Koen park, hoping for fall colors and a mental breather before the season goes nutcrackers with parties and shopping. Despite being at the city&#8217;s epicenter, both these Chiyoda Ward locales remain as mysterious as backstreets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yea! As I walk through the valley of Todoroki . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Todoroki Valley Park, a protected green swath along Tokyo&#8217;s only ravine, strikes me as an interesting and possibly quite sheltered destination on a brisk and breezy fall day. An Oimachi Line local train lets me off at Todoroki in southwestern Setagaya Ward, a no-frills station level with the tracks and between bamboo crossing gates. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discoveries to delight on the very doorstep of The Japan Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an expression in Japanese &#8212; Todai moto kurashi (The base of the lighthouse is dark) &#8212; which occurs to me as I leave the headquarters of The Japan Times in Shibaura. Though I regularly dock here, I realize I&#8217;m in the dark about the surrounding area, Minato Ward&#8217;s manmade flatlands in Tokyo&#8217;s southeast. With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building excitement in Shirokanedai</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Exiting the Nanboku Line at Shirokanedai Station in west-central Tokyo, my sandaled feet immediately start to sizzle. So instead of walking to Meguro&#8217;s Institute of Nature Study as planned, I bolt down the first shaded slope I find. A chic aluminum-and-glass building with a cool and cavernous interior catches my eye. Not sure whether design [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shooting galleries in Nihonbashi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Summertime, and the living&#8217;s less easy than queasy as Tokyo&#8217;s temperatures and humidity soar. It&#8217;s like that as I exit the Hibiya Line&#8217;s Kodenmacho Station, in Chuo Ward, headed for Jisshi Koen, the area&#8217;s sole park. My plan is to walk northeast, to the Bakuro-yokoyama district, where I&#8217;ve heard that building vacancies and low rents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morishita: treats in place of the trees</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it&#8217;s hard to see the forest for the trees. According to Akinori Saito, a historian in Tokyo&#8217;s Koto Ward Office, the area known as Morishita (lit. &#8220;forest below&#8221;) was most likely named for woods that surrounded the yashiki (residence) of a feudal lord named Saemon Sakai (1564-1619), a retainer of the first Tokugawa shogun, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The edified and TEDified in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 21, Tokyo&#8217;s third annual TEDx event was held at Miraikan (the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation) in Odaiba. Though officially closed until June 11 due to the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake, Miraikan hosted 300 guests to this year&#8217;s event: TEDxTokyo 2011: Enter the Unknown. The live colloquium, featuring some of Japan&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casting around in Tsukudajima</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From Tsukishima Station on Tokyo&#8217;s Oedo subway line, I launch myself northward toward Tsukudajima. A mere sandbar in the early days of the Edo Period (1603-1868), Tsukudajima long ago began to be expanded with boulders and landfill on the way to creating the area we now know. Named after Tsukudamura, an Osaka area from which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gaming Moto Azabu</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Rather than dwell on the dark side of life at this time, I decide to get my game on by heading to a store just off Azabu-Juban&#8217;s main shopping street in central Tokyo&#8217;s Minato Ward. Max Game, at the foot of Kurayamizaka (Dark Slope), is surrounded by kids of all ages sitting at tables, strategizing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from the underground</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When my yoga class was canceled recently, I decided to explore Yoga instead. Yoga, in southwestern Tokyo&#8217;s Setagaya Ward, was once a post stop on the old Oyama-Kaido pilgrims&#8217; road between the shoguns&#8217; capital of Edo (now Tokyo) and temples in the Mount Oyama area of present-day Kanagawa Prefecture. Today, it&#8217;s a stop on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aoyama warmth beats the cold</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Kotto-dori (Antiques Avenue), a pin-straight link between Aoyama and Roppongi avenues in Tokyo&#8217;s Minato Ward, was once a melange of pricey boutiques and high-end antique stores. Word has it that the street is going through changes, so I set off to see what&#8217;s up. Bracing against icy winter winds, I first head to the southern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The narrow roads of Senju</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the frantic yearend season known as shiwasu (lit. &#8220;teachers running&#8221;), when even dignified people grow harried, a friend invited me to play hooky from the madness and take a ramble together around her Tokyo neighborhood. Since the gift of time together is a great one, I hopped the next train to Senju in Adachi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Candy man&#8217; conjures up art to eat</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Children and adults swarm the sanzun (small street cart) of Takahiro Mizuki as he creates traditional ame zaiku (candy sculptures). Plucking out a chunk of scalding mizuame (boiled starch sugar) from a specially heated box at his stand, he bobbles it from hand to hand and stretches it like taffy, increasing the air content and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eats, shoots and leaves in Hakusan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hunting season in Tokyo. I kit up and trek out to the Hakusan area of Bunkyo Ward, hoping to shoot (with camera) the wild shades of autumn. Of all the bright leaves I plan to bag, origami papers are last on my mind. However, emerging from Exit A1 of the Tozai-Mita subway line&#8217;s Hakusan [...]]]></description>
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