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…
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A Garden of Their Own: A Nipponia Elopement in the Plum Rain
They asked for somewhere deep in nature, quiet and completely still. In the mountain village of Kosuge, in the week the old…
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…
The Peaks Show and Hide: A Mountain Wedding in Japan, in Kosuge in May
More than five centuries ago a poet wrote that the high peaks above Kosuge show themselves and hide. They still do. A…
The Village That Time Forgot
A mountain village of 700 people. A 150-year-old Japanese residence. A bride in a Sailor Moon headdress. Studio Ghibli scores playing through…
Dressed for the Season: An Autumn Wedding in Japan, in the Mountains of Kosuge
In Japanese, the word for autumn leaves began as a verb. A mountain village in Yamanashi at full colour, a veil scattered…