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Hina Dolla at Awashima Jinja
Posted by Ed | Last updated Jul 31, 2017 | Dolls and Sculpture, Kids and Toys, Osaka, Kyoto, and the Kansai Region, Traditional Japan, Travel Destinations | 0 |
Mikoshi Men
Posted by Ed | Last updated Jul 31, 2017 | Festivals, Tokyo and the Kanto Region, Traditional Japan | 0 |
Shinjuku’s Heaven Artists
Posted by Ed | Last updated Aug 1, 2017 | Pop Culture, Street Scenes, Tokyo and the Kanto Region | 1 |
Snot-crying
Posted by Ed | Last updated Jul 31, 2017 | Dolls and Sculpture | 0 |
Locked Temple
Posted by Ed | Last updated Nov 21, 2017 | Tokyo and the Kanto Region, Travel Destinations | 0 |
Locked Temple
by Ed | Last updated Nov 21, 2017 | Tokyo and the Kanto Region, Travel Destinations | 0 |
Locked temple in Kamakura. _
Read MoreKids on Massage Chairs
by Ed | Last updated Aug 21, 2017 | Kids and Toys, Technology | 1 |
Kids trying out the massage chairs in a Tokyo electronics shop. _
Read MoreAsakusa’s “Thunder Gate”
by Ed | Last updated Aug 21, 2017 | Tokyo and the Kanto Region, Traditional Japan, Travel Destinations | 0 |
The outer-gate of Asakusa’s Senso-ji temple, the Kaminarimon means “Thunder...
Read MoreRandom Scenes From the Asakusa Samba Carnival (2)
by Ed | Last updated Aug 8, 2017 | Festivals, Tokyo and the Kanto Region | 0 |
Here are some more photos of the Asakusa Samba Carnival. Other samba posts are here and...
Read MoreHina Dolla at Awashima Jinja
by Ed | Last updated Jul 31, 2017 | Dolls and Sculpture, Kids and Toys, Osaka, Kyoto, and the Kansai Region, Traditional Japan, Travel Destinations | 0 |
Hina doll at Awashima Jinja in Wakayama prefecture. Other posts with pictures of Awashima Jinja:...
Read MoreSnot-crying
by Ed | Last updated Jul 31, 2017 | Dolls and Sculpture | 0 |
I came across this sculpture in Takayama. It’s of three kids, two of whom seem to be teasing...
Read MoreFearsome Nio at Entsuu-ji Temple
by Ed | Last updated Aug 1, 2017 | Dolls and Sculpture, Tokyo and the Kanto Region, Traditional Japan, Travel Destinations | 2 |
Entsuu-ji is a kind of a cheesy-looking Zen Temple near Minami-senju Station in Tokyo, but it has some really cool Buddhist sculptures. These are kongo rikishi, the “power lords of the diamond realm,” and they stand guard at...
Read MoreHina Doll at the Awashima Shrine in Wakayama
by Ed | Last updated Aug 2, 2017 | Dolls and Sculpture, Kids and Toys, Osaka, Kyoto, and the Kansai Region, Traditional Japan, Travel Destinations | 0 |
Hina doll at Awashima Jinja in Wakayama prefecture. Many Japanese people believe that dolls have souls, so instead of throwing them in the garbage, they take them to a shrine where they are blessed and ritually burned or thrown...
Read MoreYoyogi Bubbleman
by Ed | Last updated Jul 31, 2017 | Pop Culture, Street Scenes, Tokyo and the Kanto Region | 0 |
Last Sunday I came across this bubble blowing club in Yoyogi Park.
Read MoreThe Temple of the Flying Buddha
by Ed | Last updated Aug 1, 2017 | Tokyo and the Kanto Region, Traditional Japan | 0 |
Shobo-in temple near Asakusa is dedicated to the Buddhist deity Fudo Myo, and is popularly known as Tobi Fudo. Tobi Fudo means “the flying Fudo Myo.” The temple got its nickname in the 1500s when its founder took an...
Read MoreA Japanese Garden Ready for Winter
by Ed | Last updated Jul 31, 2017 | Nature, Tokyo and the Kanto Region, Traditional Japan | 2 |
The Horikiri Shobuen is a small but very nice iris garden near my apartment in Katsushika Ward. It gets jam-packed in early June when the irises are in bloom, but is quite beautiful and nearly empty the rest of the year. When I...
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