Posts Tagged ‘Takarazuka’
Takarazuka Review: Rome at Dawn
I thought I was prepared for Takarazuka, but in truth, I wasn’t. Sometime in the middle of May, my friend Julia Cho and her husband Ed came to stay with me during a grant-funded trip through Japan for the purpose of researching popular forms of Japanese art and culture that, in one way or another, […]
Filed under: art, culture, Japan, Kansai, manga, music, Osaka, performance, theater, writing | 2 Comments
Tags: Julia Cho, Les Bijoux Brillants, musical, performance, playwright, rock opera, Rome at Dawn, Shakespeare, shojo manga, song and dance, stage, sword and sandals, Takarazuka, Takarazuka Grand Theater, Takarazuka Revue, The Rose of Versailles, theater, 宝塚歌劇団, 少女漫画
The Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum
On the second of December, J.’s friend Dan Nishimoto, who was in Japan to see his relatives, came to visit us in Osaka for a couple of days. Dan (who’s name is pronounced ‘Don,’ as in Don Corleone) used to work at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, but he now spends most of his time […]
Filed under: cinema, comics, culture, film, Japan, Kansai, manga, Osaka, travel | Leave a Comment
Tags: animation, anime, Astro Boy, Blackjack, Dan Nishimoto, 鉄腕アトム, mange, museum, Osamu Tezuka, Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum, Takarazuka, Takarazuka Revue, Tezuka, Tezuka Museum, 宝塚, 宝塚市, 手塚治虫
Train track hiking
On October 9th I went for a fantastic hike with Yoichi-san, or Yo-chan, who works at a film developing stand just outside of the west gate of Ishibashi station. From Ishibashi station we took the Hankyu Takarazuka line and then transferred to the JR Takarazuka line at Kawanishi-Noseguchi. The JR line took us straight up […]
Filed under: culture, daily life, Japan, Kansai, Osaka, society, travel | Leave a Comment
Tags: abandoned train tracks, basic onsen rules, bathing culture, 紅葉, forest, hiking, hot bath civilization, maple trees, momiji, mountain, nature, onsen, river, Takarazuka, Takarazuka mountains, tunnels
