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David in Setouchi
@david.setouchi.social
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- Frenchman teaching English at a Japanese university by the Seto Inland Sea's art islands
- Friend of crows

https://japanartislands.com/

The rest is on my other account @DavidBHimself.online

#Takamatsu #SetouchiTriennale
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#SetouchiTriennale update: Tonight, two ferries were running from #Naoshima to Takamatsu. The "Seto" and the "Naoshima" (that's the ferry's name). It's true that I hadn't seen the latter in a little while. Did it have a technical problem? No idea.
Anyway ⤵️
The Seto Inland Sea at dusk. Two ferries are returning from Naoshima to Takamatsu. The "Seto" (on the left) and the "Naoshima" on the right.
October 13, 2025 at 9:36 AM
david.setouchi.social
Wow, look what I found, at the bottom of a drawer in my house!!!
I bought it online probably in 2016 after David Sylvian's awesome photo exhibit at Uno Port.

For more details:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Lo...

cc: @davidsylvian.bsky.social

#Naoshima #Music #DavidSylvian #art #Japan
The CD of "When Loud Weather Buffeted Naoshima" by David Sylvian.
October 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
david.setouchi.social
So, it decided to rain... just and only right here... I'm not complaining (and I probably need to thank the kami or the yokai who's behind this)
Weather radar showing rain just in my part of town and only in my part of town.
August 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
david.setouchi.social
Sinon, sur Shodoshima en avril dernier.
Il n'était pas très content que je le prenne en photo sans lui demander.
Singe sur le bord d'une route au Japon. Il n'est pas content que je me sois arrêté pour le prendre en photo.
July 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
david.setouchi.social
In our series #JapanHatesNature today, on campus, some trees were found guilty of having branches providing shade to the road below. They were punished accordingly.
Also, some grass was found growing illegally in the garden. For this the punishment is capital.

#Japan #LifeInJapan
The student's garden (where they grow vegetables) without any grass around the vegetable spots. On campus, a truck with a crane (the kind used for utility cable) used to cut the branches that provided shade over a street)
July 11, 2025 at 10:46 AM
david.setouchi.social
Kenji Yanobe's "Ship's cat" in Takamatsu.

#art #cat #KenjiYanobe #Takamatsu #高松市 #猫 #ヤノベケンジ
A Kenji Yanobe sculpture representing a white cat in a spacesuit. It's sitting on a building (it's a few meters tall)
July 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
david.setouchi.social
Have a good weekend y'all. Mine will be hot and hazy. (I don't think I'm gonna go to the island tomorrow, it's just too hot to spend most of the day outdoors)

#evening #weekend #seascape #SetoInlandSea
The Seto Inland Sea in the evening. It's hazy but the sun is reflecting in the sea.
July 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
david.setouchi.social
Today's quiz.
Three boats: on the left, a fishing boat, on the right in the distance, a ferry, but what is the boat in the middle (it's almost as big as a ferry).

#sea #seascape #SetoInlandSea #boats
The sea. It's hazy. There are three boats (see post)
July 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
david.setouchi.social
There should be some islands there.
The sea is evaporating, will there be anything left in a few days?

#seascape #SetoInlandSea #summer #heat #haze
The Seto Inland Sea. It's so hot that one can't see anything in the distance, just haze.
July 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
david.setouchi.social
Probably my best portrait yet of Mr. Crow.

#birds #crows #corvids
a portrait of Mr Crow
July 1, 2025 at 11:31 AM
david.setouchi.social
How to trigger someone who lives in #Japan?

This way:
A pair of shoes on a tatami (full disclosure: they are brand new shoes that have never been worn)
June 30, 2025 at 5:57 AM
david.setouchi.social
Good rainy morning.

#Japan #SetoInlandSea #RainySeason #Boat #Seascape
The Seto Inland Sea. It's cloudy/misty. Megijima is barely visible in the background. There's a fishing boat crossing the frame.
June 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM
david.setouchi.social
Yesterday evening (tonight, it's raining)

#seascape #SetoInlandSea #Japan #evening #Naoshima
The Seto Inland Sea in the evening with Naoshima and Honshu in the background.
June 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
david.setouchi.social
I mean, I can't post a picture of the Yellow Pumpkin without posting a picture of her younger sister, the Red Pumpkin, right?

#Japan #Art #Naoshima #ArtSetouchi #SetoInlandSea #Red #Pumpkin #YayoiKusama
Yayoi Kusama's Red Pumpkin in Myanoura Port, on Naoshima.
June 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
david.setouchi.social
I mean, I can't regularly post about the Setouchi region and its art and not post the Yellow Pumpkin once in a while
(fun fact: this picture was taken minutes after the unveiling of the new Yellow Pumpkin after the previous one was destroyed by a typhoon)

#Japan #Art #Naoshima #Pumpkin #YayoiKusama
Yayoi Kusama's Yellow Pumpkin at the end of its pier on Naoshima.
June 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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"Hub/s" by Do Ho Suh at the Naoshima New Art Museum.

#art #Naoshima #DoHoSuh
"Hub/s" by Do Ho Suh
June 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Teaser...

Coming very soon on japanartislands.com
Time to subscribe if you haven't yet.

#art #Naoshima #Japan #TakashiMurakami
I dont want to explain much. It's a traditional Japanese painting with many characters and details, but right in the middle, some anime looking character, some sort of flower with eyes, mouth, arms, etc. (it's Takashi Murakami)
June 3, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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#red #art #pumpkin #Naoshima #YayoiKusama
The "stem" of Yayoi Kusama's Red Pumpkin on Naoshima
May 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
david.setouchi.social
Hello baby crow.

#crows #birds #corvids
A crow fledgling hanging out on a tree stump (it seems to particularly like this tree stump for some reason)
May 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
david.setouchi.social
Good afternoon.

#art #JaumePlensa #Japan #Ogijima #water
May 27, 2025 at 8:06 AM
david.setouchi.social
How do you say "get off my lawn" in crow language?

#birds #crows #corvids #blackkite
A crow and a black kite, both perched on the same utility pole and facing each other (it's the crow's territory, the black kite eventually left)
May 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
david.setouchi.social
"A Moai in Japan?"
"Yes."
"A real one?"
"Well, it's complicated: No, but yes, but not."

#Moai #Japan
A Moai in the port of a small Japanese island.
May 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
david.setouchi.social
Alright, I admit, the Kagawa Arena doesn't look too bad, seen from Megijima.

#Takamatsu #Megijima #KagawaArena #女木島 #architecture #SANAA #SetoInlandSea
The Kagawa Arena seen from Megijima's port. There's also Takamatsu skyline as well as the Oni Lighthouse from Megijima.
May 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Back from the island.

#ferry #SetoInlandSea
The Seto Inland Sea seen from the back of the ferry. The picture really shows part of the ferry (ropes, guardrails, etc) rather than the sea itself.
May 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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#red #white #ferry #Meon #Megijima
#赤 #白 #フェリー #めおん #女木島
The back of Meon, the red and white ferry that links Takamatsu with Megijima and Ogijima.
May 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM