Floating down the river, Matsue in the sun
September 9th 2005 We've taken a side step from the temples of Kyoto to the canal lined city of Matsue on our way down south to Hiroshima.
Matsue is a beautiful wee city on the Shinji-Ko river, it's a really sleepy wee place with a huge castle and is famous for being the home of Lafcadio Hearn, or Koizumi Yakumo as he's know around these parts, who was a British writer who came to Japan in 1890, he was the first
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