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A few not-very-systematic links. The parenthetical letters following each link indicate the languages available at the site (J=Japanese, E=English, T=Turkish).
General Information
- Fujino's own official website is entitled Welcome to Art Town, and provides standard information about the town and its events. (J)
- An official one-page site for Fujino published by the Kanagawa Prefecture Association for the Promotion of Municipalities. Very basic statistics only. (J)
- A new (as of 2002) privately maintained site Geijutsu no Komichi ("Art Trails") is a beautifully done addition by a relative newcomer to Fujino, Itoh Shioji. Itoh is a former textile designer and fashion stylist who purchased a second house in Fujino around 1998, and moved here permanently in 2001, whereupon she became actively involved in the Fujino art scene. "Trails" provides a good deal of general information about Fujino, as well as introductions to specific art-related events in the town, and in any event, it is a pleasure to view. (J)
- This is a commercial site that includes information about Fujino. The site itself is supported by advertising for a small electrical manufacturing company located in the town, but it provides—at times—a good deal of useful information, including links to some of the main town attractions. The site has switched to a frame design, and you must select the (Fujino information) link on the left side of the page to get to town info. (J)
- The Kanagawa Prefectural Council for Promoting Business and Industrial Establishment has a page for companies and industries thinking of relocating to Kanagawa. The page has links to other Kanagawa cities and towns on the Council, and Fujino is listed, but without without an active link. (E)
- Official page for Tsukui Township, Fujino's neighboring town to the south. (J)
- Tsukui Community Net is a relatively new site oriented toward family and social news and events in the local Tsukui and southern Fujino region. (J)
- By the local scenic road, Fujino is only one hour to Lake Yamanaka, one of the Fuji Five Lakes; for a gourmet guide to dining out in the Five Lakes and surrounding areas, try Apple Fujigoko (J).
- There are many sites on the web providing general introductory information about Japan. One is Schauwecker's Guide to Japan , which furnishes a wide variety of information and links to other sites about Japanese things.
- Another is Townnet (E) and Townnet (J).
. These services provide information and links to numerous sites having to do with local life both in Japan and in other countries.
Fujino Art Info
- One of the most important annual art events in Fujino is Fieldwork in Fujino, the brainchild of Nakase Koji, a sculptor living in Fujino. The symposium features the construction of numerous outdoor installations each year, by both Japanese and foreign artists.
- Artists in Fujino hold regular symposiums and other exchange activities with artists from Turkey and Austria dealing with outdoor sculpture and the art resort concept; a symposium was held in 1998 called On Wings of Summer. The site includes an English-language map to Fieldwork in Fujino (outdoor sculpture installations). (E)
- The Safa/Genius Summer Academy is a Turkish art-village project at the village of Safakoy, near the Aegean-coast town of Cesme. (The original website seems to be gone; this link is to an information application only)(E)
- The Turkish town of Degirmendere is an art village with continuing artistic relations with Fujino. Degirmendere's mayor visited Fujino in 1998, and a tour of Fujino artists will be visiting Turkey this year (1999). (E/T)
- A page regarding the 6th International Zuhtu Muridoglu Wooden Sculpture Symnposium in the Turkish town of Degirmendere. (E)
- World Spice 1996 An old notice on the Tokyo Weekender site including an announcement about a past World Spice Festival. The WSF was held for several years in Fujino, and used to be called the alternative-culture event of the Kanto Area. Sadly it met its demise as the result of a number of administrative problems (E).
- This guide to Fujino's Shinobara District, includes brief introductions to artists living in the area; it is authored by Katô Masaki, a teacher at Fujino's local junior high school. (J)
- Takasaki's Home Page is a private site authored by a man living in Fujino's Magino District; he uploads pictures of local flowers and information about local events. (J)
- A site introducing Fujino's Workshop for Art. It also has a few links to other sites dealing with Fujino. (J)
- The village of Doshigawa is well known as a camping and fishing site, and has a number of other local attractions, including a hot springs. This is a frames site, and requires Japanese language support (J)
Artists in Fujino
- A personal friend and resident of Fujino's Shinobara district for the past several years, Endô Yoshiharu is a professional performer on the Chinese kokyû, a two-stringed instrument played with a bow; he also is a great guitarist, and does a mean "Elvis" impression. He issued his first CD in 2001. (J)
- Kamohara Masahito is a craftsman of small pottery bells often found in various shapes as gifts at tourist sites throughout Japan. Kamohara's designs feature a wide variety of local birds as well as traditional year-animal symbols (eto). His shop is called Monten. (J)
- Masarugama Dobo is a private site run by Shimizu Masaru, a potter living in the Magino section of Fujino. The site includes photographs of Shimizu's stoneware, information about his "Saturday session" of informal pottery lessons, a map to his kiln, and a brief guide to nearby Fujino sights and events. (J)
- Takahashi Yoshihiko is one of Japan's top young glass artisans. He lives in the next-door town of Tsukui, but is active in the Fujino art scene. His website includes photos of some exquisite pieces of work. (J/E)
Ayado Chie
- This past year, Ayado Chie has become known as one the top Jazz performers in Japan, even setting some new records for album sales. She's been a long-time fixture in Fujino, though, having given numerous concerts here in the last several years. Lively, humorous, deep, passionate, dedicated to her art. Overall, a great person. (It's hard to believe how much energy has been put into improving her website over the past few months.) (J)
Hot Springs
- One person's introduction to Fujino's municipal Yamanami Onsen. (J)
- Akiyama Nespa Hot Springs. (E) The English at this site is rather peculiar, but you should get the drift. This is a nice hot springs hidden away just beyond Fujino's border with Yamanashi. It features multiple outdoor pools, an aromatherapy sauna, and resting room with relaxing, "new agey-"kind of music.
- Himetani Onsen, a hot springs and ryokan located on the north side of town. (J)
Religion in Japan
- The Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics at Kokugakuin University is where I work. At this site you can find additional links to academic resources on Japanese religion, and online e-texts of some things I've translated and written. (E)
- Cyber Shrine is a site with photographs and introductions to a large number of Shinto Shrines in Japan. You can even have your fortune told, electronically, and print out a sacred amulet! (J/E)
- Jinja Online Network League is an association of Shinto priests introducing Shinto to the world. The English is not native, but it gets the job done. (J/E)
- The Grand Shrines of Ise are a must for anyone wanting to understand Japanese religion until the end of World War II. The shrines have had less impact on the general populace in the postwar period, but they're still an impressive repository of culture and nationalistic pride. (J/E)
Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Any search engine will turn up hundreds of web links to Montgomery and her works, so I won't bother with too many here. I found the epigraph on the splash page while reading the e-text version of Anne of Green Gables. (E)
- The Avonlea Spectacle is the official online site for the journal by the same name, dealing with Lucy Maud Montgomery and her works. (E)
Bridges
- A private site dedicated to the photographic appreciation of the bridges of Portland, Oregon, where I was born and raised.
- I didn't realize it, but Oregon has quite a few covered bridges. Some of them are on display here.
- And here are some more Oregon covered bridges. This site has excellent descriptions, but I've experienced some problems with the Java applet that loads the photos.
- A nicely done official site by the Environmental Services division, Oregon Department of Transportation, introducing the historic bridges of Oregon. It even includes background music that won't jar the fillings from your molars.
- This site is an official guide to the covered bridges of Lane County, Oregon (home to "more covered bridges than any other county west of the Mississippi").
- This Chinese universite site used to include some examples of mostly older Chinese bridges. It's status has recently changed, and I'm not sure whether the photos are available anymore.(C)
Friends
A few sites from my eclectic collection of eccentric friends:
- Brian Chandler is a technical translator and mathematical genius, refugee from Tokyo living in Ibaraki Prefecture. His emporium for the "blinkered empiricist" can be found in the pages of his Imaginatorium. The site also leads to his own "Artifartorium," for the POPOMO crowd.
- Peter Evans has two personnas: one is as Dr. Evans, mild-mannered professor of English composition at several Tokyo universities, and the other is as The Hoary Ape, denzien of the demi-monde, blatant displayer of "touristy" photographs of the underbellies of Europe, and purveyor of tirades against mono-focal digital cameras. In short, a normal long-term foreign resident of Tokyo.
HTML/MISC
- I learned to write my first HTML through this set of online tutorials at MCLI, the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction at Maricopa Community Colleges. It was first written in 1994, but it's been updated several times since then, and remains an excellent way to learn the basics of HTML at your own pace.
- Just as the Chicago Manual of Style is the bible of style for people working with the printed word, the Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide is becoming a standard for style in web sites. If you're wondering where I got my basic site design philosophy, look here. [Unfortunately (sigh), they now appear to have abandoned their earlier (ca. 1999) splash page with its unusual fish images in favor of something far less interesting.(E)
- Another important source for the theory and practice of web style is David Siegel's sites. (E)
- Have to identify a tree in a hurry? Here's the place—at least for Pacific Northwest trees. (E)
- Troutsite is the official homepage of James Prosek, angler and author of Trout: An Illustrated History. Prosek's page includes artwork, selections from his writings, a bulletin board dedicated to the fine arte of angling, and a lookup engine for identifying trout, using Prosek's own color illustrations. (E)
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