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View from Castle Inuyama
Inuyama Castle (犬山城) panorama
I have posted the view of Inuyama Castle from the other side of the river several times. However, today’s 20+ photo photomerge is of the reverse view a little earlier in the evening. I was standing on a corner of the castle so this panorama consists of more than 270 degrees of view. The boats in the river housed the fireworks that were set off an hour or so later.
Bar Midian
BAR MiDiAN (Heavy Metal bar in Osaka, Japan)
@BAR_MiDiAN @MardukOfficial @sakura_jp_tw
You can’t really see the video in this photo, but I think Marduk was on. Marduk have a bigger following in Japan than in the USA. They are heading back to Japan again in January.
Bar Midian address in case you are ever in Osaka: 大阪市北区堂山町10-16 叶第一レジャービル2F
Lotus in the rain
Lotus flower
I’m guessing the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (広島平和記念公園) is usually a little less than peaceful, with the throngs of tourists and school groups it attracts. However, the rain was coming down so hard at this point in my visit that everyone else had taken shelter, and I had the grounds to myself.
Gifu (岐阜)
Shirakawa-go (白川郷)
Japanese baseball terminology
Wladimir Balentien of the Yakult Swallows (NPB 2013 home run record)
Figuring out kanji used for baseball in Japan is a fun challenge. If you have a basic understanding of kanji you can literally read what Balentien (バレンティン) did on this evening before coming to bat for the fourth time. (遊ゴ = fun go, 四球 = four balls, 死球 = death ball) So what do these things really mean? 遊 is the shortstop (the funnest position?). goro (ゴロ) is grounder so he grounded out to short his first time up. Four balls is easy enough. He walked in his second at bat. But “death ball”? What could that possibly mean? He was hit by the pitch in his most recent at bat.