Sano Shuji, our Great Mushroom Teacher
Sano-san is our great friend and ‘shishō’ 師匠- the Master – of all things fungi. Check out my story in Kyoto Journal, issue 104, ‘A Fascination with Fungi’, or drop by the Kyoto Imperial Palace Gardens once a month to join Sano-san on one of his brilliant Sunday morning fungi forays. Mrs A. and I are usually there. There is a Japanese translation of the text included, if you wish to show it to a Japanese friend (or are Japanese yourself 笑).
Sano-san will also be leading a Mushroom hunt to coincide with the Kansai Mycological Club’s 30th annual mushroom event on Saturday 28th October from 2 to 3 pm in the Kyoto Botanical Gardens . I’ll be at the venue providing English translation, though likely in the main exhibition space, not Sano-san’s lecture.
Dates: October 28 (Saturday) to October 29 (Sunday), 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (until 4:00 p.m. on the last day). Why not bring along a mushroom or two and get it identified by the experts.
The following pics are from the Botanical Gardens event in 2019:
This is one of the Sunday-morning Kyoto Imperial Gardens forays led by Sano Shuji:
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