An Asaba Ryokan Wedding: Coming Back With Their People
After one visit to Japan, they decided to return with the people closest to them. At Asaba, a boat crossing, two families’…
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Walking Into the Work: A Murou Art Forest Elopement Beneath Borrowed Mountains
A villa garden that borrows its mountains, then Murou Art Forest, the hillside in Nara that Dani Karavan made into one work…
A Wedding in a Bamboo Forest Near Tokyo, With Jazz to Follow
The couple wanted the jazz club's regulars there, and the groom's mother ended up singing. Before that came a ceremony in winter…
A Nipponia Kosuge Wedding: What We Give of Ourselves
Two American chefs living in Hong Kong brought their people to a mountain village in Japan, then sat down to be cared…
An Intimate Plum Blossom Wedding in Japan at Jinya
Japan named its current era after a dinner under a plum tree. Late in March, at Jinya in Tsurumaki Onsen, a couple…
No First Dance, Just Mochi: A May Wedding in Japan at Jinya
She arranged the flowers herself, with her friends, the afternoon before. A koto player learned the songs from the films they love.…
A Nara Wedding for Two, With Kyoto Before and Mountains Beyond
They gave themselves a city morning, a mountain wedding and time to enjoy both. Between Kyoto’s immense temple gate and a small…
A Nagano Winter Wedding: Time Enough to Be Together
A geologist, his partner and their far-flung friends gathered in the Japanese mountains, in a house whose history was bound to the…
A Hakone Forest Wedding, With Everyone They Call Home
Their lives had taken them through several countries; in Hakone, the people from those lives finally met. The forest held the ceremony,…
How Far in Advance to Plan a Wedding in Japan: A Year Well Spent
Japan keeps its own calendar. The blossom and the maples arrive on nature's dates, the best places host one celebration a day,…
A Roof Like an Umbrella: An Intimate Wedding in Japan’s Mountains
Low cloud on the cedar ridges, a 150-year-old house built for exactly this weather, and the few people who mattered most, close…