How-tos | GETTING THINGS DONE May 17, 2000

Street entertainment

by Jean Pearce

Honoring Golden Week, Omotesando lined its streetside with wondrous bamboo sculptures. I recognized the deft hand of flower master Hiroshi Teshigahara; he had once filled his Sogetsu headquarters building with similar fanciful forms, a display that visitors could walk among, and those of us ...

How-tos | GETTING THINGS DONE May 14, 2000

Adjusting traditions

by Jean Pearce

Before we get too far from the holidays, I wonder how many of you were aware of yet another dilemma for Japanese trying to follow traditions in a world where they no longer fit. Among the most spectacular sights of Golden Week that we ...