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Sunday, September 11, 2011

A True Tale of Typhoon Talas part3

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So, it's Friday evening and the rain has not stopped for more than 24 hours. But now the winds pick up. But first, a little about the ra...
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Friday, September 9, 2011

A True Tale of Typhoon Talas part2

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I reach the temple about 10. Its taken me 4 hours to climb the 6 kilometers. About halfway from the gate to the main buildings the rain sudd...
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

A True Tale of Typhoon Talas part1

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Talas I've been somewhat erratic with posting recently as I have started to walk the Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage. For various reasons ...
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Monday, September 5, 2011

They're back!!!

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They're back!!! We hadn't seen hide nor hair of the monkeys for about three months, then last week I was sitting at my computer an...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Kawara with plaster

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Something Ive only seen a few times, and always on the Pacific Coast, is plaster used, Im guessing, to hold the rooftiles together. I...
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Sunday, August 28, 2011

Tenjin on the beach

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Starting this weekend and running for 2 weeks is a sand sculpture event on the beach in front of Aquas. The theme is Iwami kagura. On ...
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Friday, August 26, 2011

Inside Grin Grin

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Grin Grin, or Gurin Gurin, or Green Green is a park and greenhouse complex on Island City, a man-made island in Hakata Bay. Its plann...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Imbara Obon Matsuri

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For Obon we went upriver a little ways to Imbara, part of Kawamoto Town, to check out their matsuri. There was kagura performed by the loc...
Sunday, August 14, 2011

Kuromatsu Matsuri

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A couple of weekends ago was one of my favorite matsuris at Kuromatsu, a fishing village on the coast not far from here. I usually experie...
Friday, August 12, 2011

Old Kawara

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The next chapter in my photo galleries of kawara, Japanese rooftiles. All of these exhibit the aesthetics of old kawara... ...
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