He also makes shakuhachi and other bamboo instruments at his home workshop in the Japanese countryside.
These batches of foam can often be seen hanging over ponds in the Japanese countryside in late spring.
Alan Booth (1946-1993) was a well-known English travel writer, who wrote two insightful books on his journeys by foot through the Japanese countryside.
He was raised in the Japanese countryside, and is as such a sort of country bumpkin.
Through a series of vignettes that are sometimes linked, sometimes not, we get to know the Harunos, who live quietly in the Japanese countryside.
Farmers here are determined to remind anyone who will listen that the sense of order in the Japanese countryside isn't Mother Nature's doing.
The Akechi stories are based mainly in the detective's home city of Tokyo, though some move the action to the Japanese countryside.
The book begins with Momoko talking about her life as a Lolita living in a small town in the Japanese countryside.
Izu, in short, offers some of the best and worst of the Japanese countryside.
He is the son of missionaries who left him with a nurse in Tokyo while they went to preach in the Japanese countryside.