Jan 22 2010 | hugh ashton |
sake forms an integral part of many Japanese festivals. At New Year, many people drink a rather sweetened warmed sake, but this (I think) is the ordinary stuff, though served from a golden “teapot” at Hachiman, Kamakura. I really took this for the smile, though.
Hugh has lived in Kamakura for the past 10 years, and in Japan (Hamamatsu, Mitaka) for twice as long as that. He has always taken photographs, but the relatively recent purchase of an Olympus DSLR and some lenses reminded him (i) how expensive a hobby photography can be and (ii) how much fun it is to go out and record images of the surrounding world. Some more pictures can be
seen here.
When he is not taking photographs, Hugh sells his writing (and sometimes photos) for magazines, for companies in the banking and financial services world, and teaches a few classes on presentation skills at a university in Tokyo. He has recently published his first novel, Beneath Gray Skies, and is working on the publication of another one (working title Sharpe Practice). In his spare time, he may be sometimes discovered playing Dobro (resonator guitar) in a variety of unlikely locations in the Shonan and Tokyo areas.
