Search results：Country Gentleman

Country Gentleman: Campfires and forest fires

Recently I have been horrified, but not especially surprised, by the spate of hu…

(2018/9/5)

Country Gentleman: The benefits of farming the old-fashioned way

We began keeping two horses, Yukimaru and Chachamaru, for the purpose of pulling…

(2018/8/16)

Country Gentleman: Blood-sucking insects leave their mark

Living in the Japanese countryside gives me an understanding, plus some sympathy…

(2018/8/8)

Country Gentleman: Living and learning with mountain cherry trees

The cherry blossom season is over in Tokyo, but I woke this morning here in Kuro…

(2018/5/16)

Country Gentleman: The woods burst to life with tasty butterburs

Spring on our doorstep, rings of bare ground around the trunks of trees, snow me…

(2018/4/19)

Country Gentleman: City snow, country snow

I arrived in Tokyo on the afternoon of Jan. 23. At Tokyo Station there were long…

(2018/2/21)

Country Gentleman: Welcoming winter's meat delicacies

I am in my study, which is on the third floor of a building built about 100 mete…

(2018/1/25)

Country Gentleman: Homegrown chestnuts a seasonal treat

One of the wonderful smells I remember as a boy in Britain back in the 1940s and…

(2017/12/21)

Country Gentleman: The comforting sight of stacked firewood in autumn

A comforting sight in the countryside is neatly stacked firewood. However, this…

(2017/11/22)

While I was in the Arctic this summer, and also since I returned to Nagano in Au…

(2017/10/26)

Country Gentleman: The threat of forest fires

After my recent trip to Greenland and arctic Canada, I spent a few days in North…

(2017/9/28)

Country Gentleman: Do clothes make the man?

I am preparing to make a trip to Greenland, where I shall board a medium-sized "…

(2017/9/5)

Country Gentleman: Learning from the woods

I came to live here in northern Nagano in 1980. In order to learn more about the…

(2017/5/23)

Country Gentleman: The importance of good manners

If I ask a Japanese woman, "what is a gentleman?" they will usually answer that …

(2017/4/26)

Country Gentleman: What does it really mean to be a 'country gentleman'?

When I first came to Japan in 1962 and tried to understand the language, one of …

(2017/3/29)