One Hundred Mountains

1 February: it's still dark when we shuffle our way into the Fukuchi-in’s ornate main hall. Even at a few minutes before 7 am, we are al...

31 January: Admittedly, the Sensei had difficulty in following my logic. We’d voted to take a break from ceaseless snow shovelling in her ho...

24 January: forty-seven centimetres of snow have fallen on the Sensei’s hometown in the last couple of days, enforcing on us what Scottish c...