Issue Archive
Journal
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Editorial essays and reported stories, organized by issue.
Vol. 01 · Issue 01
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Letter
On the First Issue
A short letter on what Volume 01 Issue 01 sets out to do, what it deliberately leaves out, and what Issue 02 will try next.
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Grounds
Notes on Cedar and Course
Cedar plantations shape not only the look of a Japanese course but its sound, its light, and the distance a ball can actually travel through them.
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Lens
On Playing in Mist
Fog alters the most basic perceptual ingredient of a round — distance. A note on what the Japanese player has learned to do when the ridge disappears.
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Lens
The Stillness Between Strokes
A note on what Japanese play holds onto that other traditions have thinned out — the pause between one stroke and the next, and what it does to a round.
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Opening
Why Mountain Greens Speak Quietly
Japan's topography forced golf onto the slopes of volcanic ridges. The game that grew there is not a louder version of the British parkland — it is a quieter one.
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