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Shinya Tange (丹下眞也) of the Japanese band Outrage
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Ramen line
Queue for Futomendo Ramen near Takadanobaba
Back when Futomendo was all the rage on Waseda Doori a line like this was inevitable. The poor tsukemen shop just a few doors down, meanwhile, couldn’t fill its seats.
Samurai commemorative photograph
Takeda Shingen Festival - Ricoh samurai (employees) line up for the customary commemorative photo
Japanese take more canned, commemorative photos (記念写真) than anyone. Perhaps they take more than all other cultures combined. Who knows?
Everyone tends to look very solemn in these kinen shashin, and the pictures tend to include so many people that you can’t really see who is in the photo anyway. Rather boring, right?
I suppose one way to liven things up is to have the participants dress as samurai.
Halloween costumes
Japanese females in Halloween costumes
Today’s photo is from the 2011 Ashland, Oregon Halloween Parade. I think these two girls are Japanese students at SOU this year. I’ll be posting (and have posted) many more photos from Halloween (we had great weather and there were some stellar costumes this year) on my other blog which you can find here.
Odawara Castle
Odawara Castle wall during cherry blossom season
I have been through the Odawara Station many times, but I have never made it to the castle itself. Today’s photo was taken by my better half when she met up with some other TIS moms for an outing while the sakura was blossoming (first week of April).
Sensoji (浅草寺)
Sensoji's five-story pagoda
One strange thing about the Japanese language is that characters (kanji) usually have multiple readings. Take the kanji for Senso-Ji for example. This famous temple is located in Asakusa (浅草) so when you see the kanji 浅草寺 you think this place must be called Asakusa Tera or Asakusa Dera (tera, 寺, means temple). Actually, it is read Sensoji so not a single character retains its “normal” reading.