  We give a new and very intuitive construction of Hyodo--Kato cohomology and
the Hyodo--Kato map, based on logarithmic rigid cohomology. We show that it is
independent of the choice of a uniformiser and study its dependence on the
choice of a branch of the $p$-adic logarithm. Moreover, we show the
compatibility with the classical construction of Hyodo--Kato cohomology and the
Hyodo--Kato map.)
