Saturday, March 20, 2021
Modern Ikebana: some works of Shogo Kariyazaki
A few photos of Yuushien can be found here. and some shots from the Dahlia festival last November
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peony,
shogo Kariyazaki,
yuushien
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Hosshinmon Oji
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kumano kodo,
oji,
saigoku,
Shrine,
torii,
world heritage
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Dounzan Temple 1 on the Shodoshima Pilgrimage
Inside the tall cave is an eight-sided shrine housing a statue of Bishamonten, the honzon of the temple.
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cave,
kannon,
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Sunday, March 14, 2021
Maneki Neko Museum
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maneki neko,
Museum,
okayama
Friday, March 12, 2021
Taketomi Island Village
Taketomi 竹富島
Taketomi is a small island a 10 minute ferry ride from Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture. The small village on the island of about 300 inhabitants is registered as a Group of Historic Buildings a classification I refer to as Preservation District for simplicity. It is one of only two such districts in Okinawa. For other preservation districts I have covered in this blog please click here.
The defining features of the village architecture are the stone walls surrounding each property, the low, single storey homes, and the tile roofs. However, the tile roofs are a very modern addition, the first one on Taketomi not being until 1905.
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okinawa,
preservation district,
taketomi
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Kitsuki Samurai House Exteriors
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Architecture,
kitsuki,
kunisaki fall,
preservation district,
samurai
Monday, March 8, 2021
Shiranuhi Culture Plaza
Shiranuhi is a small town in rural Kumamoto. Shiranuhi Culture Plaza is a modrn building housing the library and a small museum.
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Architecture,
atsushi kitagawara,
kumamoto artpolis,
kyushu108,
Museum
Saturday, March 6, 2021
Matsubase Shrine
Matsubase is a small town in Kumamoto that I reached in the afternoon of my 45th day walking around Kyushu. Matsubase Shrine is the main shrine in the centre of town.
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fall,
hayatamano,
izanami,
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shimenawa,
shinboku,
Shrine
Thursday, March 4, 2021
A Couple of Mysteries Solved
Mysteries
Later, a closer look at some paddies and it sure didn't look like any kind of rice i had seen before. Another mystery was that as I walked through each small settlement scattered across the plain there was the incessant clatter of machinery coming from farm buildings.
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igusa,
kyushu108,
tatami,
yatsushiro
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Curious Komainu
Komainu
While heading north across the coastal plain north of Yatsushiro I stopped in at about a dozen small shrines. They were mostly very small, local shrines, none of them famous. As usual when visiting shrines I look around for anything unusual or out of the ordinary. As always I am looking for diversity. What I did discover were these curious Komainu that shared some stylistic similarity with each other but were quite different from other styles I have seen.
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