Squid man
ika (いか or イカ or squid) seller at Inuyama matsuri
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Happy Valentine’s Day
torii tunnel of love (Inuyama, Japan)
At the end of this series of torii are hundreds of heart-shaped ema. You can see them a bit better in my photo from last year’s Valentine’s Day (バレンタインデー) post.
I’m hoping for some 本命チョコ but not counting on it this year (or any year). 😉
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.
Getting ready for the show
Inuyama Castle fireworks
Inuyama Castle fireworks
Japanese fireworks (hanabi or 花火; literally: flower fire)
My random, desktop image of the day.
Museum Wedding
Meiji Mura’s “Museum Wedding” display in St. John’s Church (Inuyama, Japan — formerly in Kyoto)
Christian churches aren’t common in Japan. Those that exist tend to be tiny boxes or rented spaces. Recently, however, getting married in a fancy Christian church has become fashionable. In addition, people are willing to spend far more on weddings than on other goods and services. Therefore, (fake) Christian chapels have sprung up with the intent of hosting weddings, not church services.
Today’s photo comes from a real church, but a church that hasn’t been used for its original purpose in many decades. St. John’s Church was built in 1907 and designed by James McDonald Gardiner, an American Anglican church missionary who spent much of his life in Meiji Era Japan. The church was relocated from Kyoto’s Kawaramachi Street to Meiji Mura in 1963.
Now, if you have enough money, you can get married there.