2026 Destination Event for Lovers of Traditional Japanese Crafts, Rural Life & Classic Homes - MINKA SUMMIT '26 Chat

Kominka Japan has set the date for the annual Hanase Village Minka celebration in Rural Kyoto for the weekend of April 24,25,26 2026 - save the date!

Tickets are now on sale and you can get a discount if you buy before the end of 2025

https://kominkajapan.online/events/

LINKS:

My talk with Paul & Kim Fredale about their stunning home and garden renovation: https://youtube.com/live/yjVcsFL09sU

Buy your MINKA SUMMIT 2026 tickets, dinner tickets, lunch tickets.. on Peatix:

https://minka-summit-2026.peatix.com/

Some Highlights of the event to be announced in the show:

· Speaker Presentations

· Minka and Machiya Tours!

· Hands-On Workshop Demonstrations!

· Minka Mall!

· Friday Night Meet-and-Greet

· Saturday Night Dinner & Keynote Speech

About Stuart Galbraith from KominkaJapan website

Stuart Galbraith IV is a film historian who has lived in his 1810 minka in the mountains north of Kyoto since 2016 with his wife, Yukiyo, and daughter, Sadie. He is the author of seven books, including The Emperor and the Wolf – The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune and Japanese Cinema and a co-writer of Academy Award-winner Steven Okazaki’s documentary Mifune – The Last Samurai (2015). A former archivist for Warner Bros. and MGM, Galbraith writes reviews for the website The Digital Bits and frequently does audio commentaries and produces short documentaries for DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K releases, including such films as Kurosawa’s Rashomon, Sanjuro, and Dersu Uzala, Kinji Fukasaku’s Battles without Honor and Humanity, Martin Scorsese’s Silence, and Joshua Logan’s Sayonara. His most recent credit is an audio commentary for the Powell & Pressburger classic A Matter of Life and Death. He also wrote and produced the documentary short, The Minka of Gaijin Alley (2019).