Tokyo to Chiba - Finding Art along the Way

On this winter ride through sun and snow from northern Tokyo into neighboring Chiba Prefecture, our New Zealand cyclist Paul Imperatrice encounters a variety of artists. He meets an artisan with 55 years of experience in traditional Edo embroidery who now creates his own groundbreaking designs, another who uses local rice and seaweed to craft astonishingly complex sushi rolls, and in the old castle town of Sakura, he visits a dojo where the martial arts of the samurai are taught in all their original depth.

An artist with the needle practicing Edo Shishu embroidery
Farmer's art – picturesque sushi rolls
Storytelling in pictures – Kamishibai street theater
Mastering the samurai martial arts

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