Japanese wine match for Japanese cuisine. is a red wine grape hybrid developed by (1868–1944) at the in Niigata Prefecture. Kawakami's goal was to develop a grape for wine adapted to Japan's climate. He did this by mixing the type grape with "Muscat Hamburg" type grape to give birth to a red wine grape that is widely used in Japan. Also developed by Kawakami was the variety known as . The characteristics of Muscat Bailey-A are a very grape juice-like flavor and it is most widely used in sweet amakuchi wines. However, in recent years, drier varieties and barrel aged varieties have
May Mirin and Clerveaux Castle, Luxembourg. May Mirin May Mirin (1900-1997) was an American photographer who documented life in Mexico. May Mirin was born in New York in 1900. She first visited Mexico in 1937, then returned to the country frequently for long periods until the 1980s. There she produced documentary and travel series, contemporaneously with fellow Americans Jasper Wood, Wayne Miller and Canadian Reva Brooks, at a time when pictures by few significant Mexican-born photographers, other than those by Lola and Manuel Alvarez Bravo, were known outside the country. Mirin's images and writing featured in popular mid-century American photography magazines. In