Tea notes: March edition

Hi from rainy Japan, how to collect affordable art, and poplin boxers for spring

Ohayo gozaimasu from the shinkansen bullet train, on which we’re currently racing back to Tokyo for a lunch omakase at Sushi Ichijo. We’ve resigned to the fact that we’re not making it on time because high winds are delaying our train’s arrival into the city. This is rather uncharacteristic of Japan, whose unnerving punctuality is a core personality tra…