#28 – AKAGI-YAMA “Akagi, Akaagiii,” I sung the name of the mountain on the day’s agenda while admiring my whiskery self in the bathroom mirror. I scoured my bristles for…
#007 – MINETOKO-YAMA 100 The number of mountains in the Nihon Hyakumeizan. A personal selection of Japan’s most outstanding mountains by the writer, plagiarist, adulterer, former soldier, mountain climber, rebounding…
#006 – MIKAMI-YAMA – Oii! Oooii! The old God of Pleasure, his robes half tucked into his undergarments came trotting up the dusty path, adjusting his attire as he came,…
#005 – HIEI-SAN Presiding over Kyoto is its pair of sentinel mountains: Atago to the West and Hiei to the East, the latter topping out just under some 850 metres…
Tenterfield Bowls Club. In out of the rain. Hard and heavy. Coming straight down. Thick white lines out of a sky engulfed in an electrified, brooding morass. Wild eyed old…
Picture this – a scene of high drama: Beautiful Japanese girl running out of the Australian bush, flustered, panic stricken, maybe even a few tears. She spots the rendezvous vehicle…
#27 – TSUKUBA-SAN Eight hundred and seventy seven metres. That’s as high as you’re going to get on Tsukuba-san, the baby of the venerable Hyakumeizan. Well, that is unless you…
#26 – OKU-SHIRANE-SAN Afternoon sunshine flickered and flashed like a lightning storm, spearing through the greenery and registering against my closed eyelids. From the foot of Nantai I was carried…
#004 – MITAKE-SAN “Mitake? Is it on the list?” I asked her. “Hai,” she replied in the affirmative, squinting at the computer screen. “How about Shiraga?” “Yes.” “Atago must be…
#003 – SHIRAGA-DAKE Summer faded with a whimper and the typhoons ran out of puff. Higanbana bloomed in the nooks of the lane way. Raising their lone red ensigns in…
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