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Deep Kyoto Highlights 2010!

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Deep Kyoto’s original purpose was to introduce bars, cafes and restaurants of character. However, its purview has expanded way beyond that over the last year or so, to encompass art, books, photography, music, dance, poetry, conservation, environmentalism and now with the controversy over the Kyoto Aquarium  – protest! I still post quite a lots of places to sit and eat and drink in though, so let’s take a look at them first!

Bars:
Alphabet Ave.
Tadg’s Irish Bar and Restaurant
BAR F.S.N.
Sake Bar Asakura
Cafes:
Quarirengue
Blues Cafe Ball’n’Chain
月と六ペンス
Restaurants:
Guest House Cono (posh)
Apollo (izakaya style Japanese food)
Thilaga Indian Restaurant
海と空 (Okinawan)
Sharma Indian Restaurant
Vege-Cafe Kanna (natural food in a machiya setting)
Kerala Indian Restaurant (the best Indian restaurant in Kyoto)
Asahi Suisan (sea food)
Second House ShichijoNishinotoinTen (pasta and cake in a Taisho era bank building)
Soba no Mi Yoshimura (soba so good!)

Here’s the rest! (or at least as much as I have time for…)

Art:
Daniel Kelly
Sarah Brayer
Pictures & Video from オトエホン-21
Dreamtime @ The Kampo Museum
The Glorious Art of José Benitez Sanchez
An Interview with Mara Alper
Nihonga
Saiundo Traditional Art Supply Shop
Books:
John Dougill’s “Kyoto: A Cultural History”
京町家の再生 – Machiya Revival in Kyoto
Heian Jingu’s cherry blossoms & Yasunari Kawabata’s “The Old Capital”
The Time Out Shortlist Kyoto
The Ultimate Japanese Phrasebook
Yoko Danno’s “Songs and Stories of the Kojiki”
One Hundred Poets on Mount Ogura, One Poem Each
Kyoto Journal #74 The Silk Roads (links to sneak previews)
Kyoto Journal #75: “Biodiversity” – Essential Reading for COP10
Conservation & Environment:

Kyoto Journal #75: “Biodiversity” – Essential Reading for COP10
The People I Met at COP10
COP10 – History is Made!
People Together for Mt. Ogura – The Poets’ Mountain
One Hundred Poets on Mount Ogura, One Poem Each
京町家の再生 – Machiya Revival in Kyoto
Culture & Tradition:
A Kyoto Christmas
Autumn Colours at Kinkakuji & Ryoanji
KIRISHITAN KYOTO
Rokudo-Mairi & The Haunted Candy Shop
Ryokan Pleasures & Possibilities
Takigi Noh (Noh by Firelight)
Ikkyū
Japanese Noh Theatre
Cherry Blossoms at Heian Jingu
Tengu
Kimono Old & New
Music:
ぼーぼーず @ Urbanguild (rock!)
Udonya Mentei & Yoshida Koichi @ Bar Hawkwind (folk)
Kris Roche (up and coming singer/songwriter)
Okuda Satoko/Viva Sherry 1 & 2 & 3 (jazz pop diva)
Yugao @ Urbanguild (shakuhachi!)
Get on the Mat!
Yugao @ Zac Baran (Spain!)
raw elements (popular local band)
Morphic Jukebox @ Jittoku (folk rock funsters)
Miimo @ JunKroom (dub electronica)
Yuya Ohta @ Modern Times (happening young fella)
elements (the massively popular local band play their final show as a full band)
The Wild Cards at Tadg’s
Singing & Dancing Round the Table @ Irish Pub Gnome (Irish Folk)
Resonance 2010 – the best event this year!
Deep Kyoto & JunKroom Present: Voices for Umekoji ~ 梅小路公園の声 – the best event next year!
Photography:

Doomed Rooster by John Ashburne

John Ashburne
Chris McCooey
Paul Crouse
Jeffrey Friedl
Frédéric Devos
John Einarsen
Stewart Wachs
Ken Rodgers
Poetry:
Irish Haiku
Two Poems by Amano Tadashi
“A Lively Evening” by Murayama Kaita
One Hundred Poets on Mount Ogura, One Poem Each
A Hokku of Yosa Buson
Introducing Keiji Minato
Songs and Stories of the Kojiki retold by Yoko Danno
Kyoto International Poetry Society
Protest!
Deep Kyoto & JunKroom Present: Voices for Umekoji ~ 梅小路公園の声
Raw Feelings for a Fish Tank (Chris Rowthorn writing in Kansai Scene)
Fury at Kyoto Aquarium Plan (my piece for Japan Today)
Why you can’t read my KVG article on the Kyoto Aquarium online…
Our Protest Against the Kyoto Aquarium at Kiyomizudera
Think Outside The Tank (a selection of local opinions)
Others:
Somushi (Korean tea shop)
Club World (I actually went to a club)


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