Contents

• Building, Building
• Hita and the Coffee Garden
• The Space Between
• Kanzaki, part one: Kushidagu
• The Lay of the Land

Nishigawa Kobo · town and country

Building, Building

Category: Away

After a break in the weather, the drills and cranes are at it again up the hill. Site preparation is underway for a new block of flats within sight and sound of my study. Without giving much outward sign of it, Ozasa is now in the throes of a housing boom.

C.F. Ryal, 29 June 2002

Hita and the Coffee Garden

Category: Away

In the summer of 1999 we came to Fukuoka on a scouting trip. About halfway through our stay, a friend of ours invited us on a car trip to visit Hita, in Oita prefecture. We came across a very nice little café and garden.

C.F. Ryal, 29 June 2002

The Space Between

Category: Away

An introductory essay on how Fukuoka’s history and geography have shaped the city’s settlement patterns and functions. Fukuoka is a ‘space between’: a transit point, and a point of translation from one people to another.

C.F. Ryal, 29 May 2002

Kanzaki, part one: Kushidagu

Category: Away

Kanzaki has a special place in our lives – it is our Japanese home town – and the Shigyo family has supplied the priests of Kushidagu for twenty-seven generations. This essay briefly glosses the history and significance of Kushidagu in Kanzaki.

C.F. Ryal, 29 May 2002