Tanzawa hike waterfall
My random image of the day seems to be pulling from my Tanzawa hike very frequently recently. Here is another photo from that hike near Tokyo.
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A skull in Japan
Not far from this location I came upon this skull so maybe that sign wasn’t so far off the mark.
Hakuba Paragliding
With ski season more than a month away in late October in Nagano Prefecture, what better activity than surveying the fall colors from your paraglider? You can see the ski lifts in Hakuba in the background of today’s photo.
Wild lions in Japan?
On my Tanzawa hike, not far from Tokyo and the most heavily populated metropolis in the world, I saw this sign which says something like, “Danger! Do not ever enter”. Really? Are lions back there? I wanted to enter just to see what was so dangerous in this country which has been so completely controlled and tamed.
For some reason fear is a big factor when people are hiking in Japan. I’ve seen bears, snakes, and other potentially dangerous wildlife on hikes in Oregon, but in Japan the biggest threat, in my experience, are the black crows. Even so, most Japanese hikers head out with bells ringing to scare away the (non-existent) beasts.
Sumo Ring Entering Ceremony (土俵入り or dohyoiri)
With the May Sumo Tournament just over a week away from beginning, my random desktop background picked this photo for me (and you) today. Notice the rikishi with the green apron (keshomawashi or 化粧回し) in the back left. This is Kakuryu (back in 2009), who was just promoted (2012) to Ozeki after nearly winning the March Tournament. Ozeki is the second highest rank in Sumo.
After the tournament in which I took today’s pic (September 2009) Kakuryu (鶴竜) was promoted to Sekiwake, the rank just below Ozeki. Since then Kakuryu has bounced around between the Sekiwake, Komusubi, and Maegashira ranks. Perhaps he will be the next Yokozuna? He has defeated the only current Yokozuna, Hakuho, in the last two tournaments.