Sodas - Lithuanian Traditional Ornament
Sodas — Lithuania's traditional rye-straw ornaments,
woven with linen thread into octahedral mobiles
that echo cosmic order and home's quiet harmony.
リトアニアの麦わらオーナメント「ソダス」。
ライ麦とリネンで結ばれた八面体は宇宙の
秩序を映し、家庭の調和を祈るお守りです。
Visiting Vigantas’s home
A summer visit to ceramicist Vigantas Vasaitis's
border-village home — bird whistles shaped on a
foot-kicked wheel, returning to Japan once again.
陶芸家ヴィガンタス・ヴァサイティスさんの
工房兼自宅を訪ねて。蹴轆轤で作られる
鳥笛たちを、今年も日本へ迎えます。
Weekend activities
A weekend with muku's Dovile and Mindaugas —
restoring an old farmhouse, foraging forest herbs,
and sharing long garden lunches in slow Lithuanian light.
mukuのドーヴィレとミンドウガス一家の
週末の過ごし方。古い農家を改修しながら、
森の恵みとともに暮らすリトアニアの時間。
Storyteller's Pottery by Ruta Indrasiute
A return visit to Ruta Indrašiūtė's forest home
in southern Lithuania — pots bearing lively motifs
gathered carefully, like the season's own harvest.
リトアニア南部の森に暮らす陶芸家ルータさん
を今年も訪問。季節の実りのような、生き生き
としたモチーフの陶器を受け取りました。
MK Čiurlionis Memorial Museum
Visiting the childhood home of M. K. Čiurlionis —
Lithuania's painter-composer — in southern Druskininkai,
ahead of his 2026 exhibition at Japan's NMWA.
An exhibition of the work of Čiurlionis, a representative Lithuanian painter and composer, will be held at the National Museum of Western Art next spring. I visited the MK Čiurlionis Memorial Museum.
Beside the lake
By a quiet Lithuanian lake, visiting Stasys's
relatives — private jetties, garden meals, and
long conversations stretching far into the night.
We visited the Stasis family, who live on the shores of a lake in the south of Lithuania. It's not a private beach, it's a private lake.
Mindaugas cooked me some chanterelles.
At muku's country house, Mindaugas cooked forest
chanterelles — sautéed with onion and finished in
gretinė, Lithuania's soft, unhurried summer flavor.
I recently visited the country house of the linenwear brand muku for the first time in a while. For lunch, they prepared sautéed chanterelle mushrooms picked in the forest.
