Here you can read about what’s been happening around here, or what we are thinking. This section is in Japanese and English, so please read both if you’re so inclined! And please send your comments, too.

Includes life with the cats, seasons in the shady garden, real life comics, neko manga, and a selection of everything else that takes place in everyday life.

Images and stories about life in Fukuoka, and other parts of Kyushu. We talk about what happens around town, about interesting places nearby, and share our local history with you.

Photographs, drawings, paintings, and illustration. Images from everyday life and the studio. Also articles about cameras, and taking and making pictures.

We work pretty slowly, but here we offer books and postcards and so on, made by Chris Ryal and Yaemi Shigyo. We hope you can find something you like!

This section describes the background and professional services offered by Chris Ryal and Yaemi Shigyo. These include design, illustration, editing, writing, and English conversation.

Copyright Information

The site is maintained and edited by Chris Ryal and Yaemi Shigyo. Unless otherwise indicated, all content has been created by the editors.

All original content on this site is protected by copyright. This is a Japanese web site, and so the laws relevant to this assertion of copyright are Japanese laws. We authorize visitors to this site to make a copy of any particular page for their own fair use. Fair use in this context consists of saving a copy of a page or printing out a page for later reference. Brief quotations of site content are encouraged, with the usual request for acknowledgement of authorship and place of publication. No part of this site may be otherwise copied or forwarded in any form without the prior written permission of the copyright holders.

Authors (unless otherwise specified):
Chris Ryal and Yaemi Shigyo

Publisher:
Nishigawa Kobo

Place of publication:
Fukuoka, Japan

Date of publication:
Refer to the ‘date posted’.

Date posted: 2005-07-02