The Blue Mountain

"Despite the comparative sobriety of its architecture, Zen often seems to inspire in its adherents a supercilious attitude to the rest...

Happy Summer (or Winter, as it were), friends, and happy Father's Day, too :). Hope you're all having a lovely day.

"The badger is a magical animal in Japan, able to take on human form. So is the fox, but the fox is malevolent whereas the badger is s...

I don't enjoy writing about myself, but this post comes requested, so here goes: 1.) I suspect anyone who acts too much their own age ...

"In the 1770s Edo culture developed a select circle of writers who produced a playful and satirical gensaku genre that encoded some of ...

* Note: The following story draws heavily from accounts of the famous duel of 13 April, 1612, between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. W...

The final day of May this year is proving a hot and humid one, which probably describes more days in the last thirty-one than not. A thunder...