HESO Magazine

The Loving Embrace – 1950s ASAHI Beer Poster

HESO Staff — Sun, 19 May 2013 04:41:40 +0000

You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline — it helps if you have some kind of a football team or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. Frank Zappa

Okochi Sanso Villa

Manny Santiago — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:32:06 +0000

The former villa of the silent actor Denjirō Ōkōchi (大河内傳次郎 — 1896-1962)–most famous for starring in Akira Kurosawa`s Sanshiro Sugata, among many others and at his peak, was one of the top jidaigeki stars–lies lost in the back of Arashiyama’s bamboo groves. Called Ōkōchi Sansō (meaning Ōkōchi mountain villa) the estate of one of [...]

You will now to please put many banana in my mouth!

HESO Staff — Wed, 15 May 2013 09:46:56 +0000

Sunset from Nijo castle In Kyoto

HESO Staff — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:19:25 +0000

What are these Japanese alcohol vending machines in Kyoto really suggesting?

HESO Staff — Mon, 13 May 2013 02:09:42 +0000

Good times in Gion – Geisha hand clap

HESO Staff — Sun, 12 May 2013 05:58:02 +0000

Gold leaf chrysanthemum sake poured by Geisha in Gion

HESO Staff — Sat, 11 May 2013 02:00:56 +0000

The Bamboo Groves of Arashiyama

Manny Santiago — Fri, 10 May 2013 05:19:45 +0000

In the western part of Kyoto along the Katsura river lies a heavily templed area known as Arashiyama. Most famous of all the beautiful century old wooden structures is the Tenryu-ji Temple complex. Tenryu-ji Temple (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), head temple of the Tenryu-ji Rinzai Zen sect, was built in 1339 by Takauji Ashikaga [...]

Occasionally to look past the dull facades and telephone wires and see what towers in the distance provides a different perspective

HESO Staff — Thu, 09 May 2013 06:10:50 +0000

Black is not great camouflage in a blizzard, but he still outfoxed me

HESO Staff — Mon, 06 May 2013 19:22:34 +0000