Food & Drink | OSAKA RESTAURANTS Jan 29, 2016

Rikyu: Playing games with traditional 'kaiseki' cuisine

by J.J. O'Donoghue

Tsukasa Yamaguchi likes to play. But not much of what he does behind the counter of Rikyo, which he opened nearly two years ago, suggests this. Like many of his contemporaries working in haute cuisine restaurants, Yamaguchi has the manner and intensity of a ...

National Sep 4, 2013

Japanese movie wins major award at Montreal festival

Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's film "Ask This of Rikyu," about a medieval-era tea master, won this year's Best Artistic Contribution Award at the Montreal International Film Festival. "I was really surprised. I believe that the beauty of the story was appreciated by the overseas audience as ...