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Summer Japanese fireworks festival (Hanabi Taikai in Inuyama, Japan)
If you can’t read Japanese, what you can purchase at these temporary shops, set up just for this evening’s event, are buttered potatoes, cold pineapple, yakisoba, and “snowballs.”
Crane (鶴) @ Hiroshima bomb site (Motoyasu River)
The atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima had the bridge spanning the Motoyasu River as its target. The bomb didn’t exactly hit its target, but that didn’t matter since it took out everything within a much wider radius. The spot from where I took today’s photo was just below the actual location where the bomb detonated.
Heart ema at end of torii tunnel at shrine on grounds of Inuyama Castle
Arashiyama – Kyoto, Japan
Shopping street in Kyoto, Japan – Demachi Masugata Shotengai (出町桝形商店街)
Soon after I took this previously published photo, rain began to fall quite heavily so I headed for refuge in the nearby covered shopping street. I purchased a chuhai and sat on a bench at the end of the street to wait out the storm. That’s when I took today’s photo.
A French man with a dog in his bike basket came down the street and stopped. He was surprised to see another foreigner in this part of town. We started talking in English, but I had difficulty understanding him and he me. So when I figured out that he had lived in Japan for 15+ years I asked him in Japanese if he would prefer to speak in Japanese. He was thrilled since his Japanese was much better than his English. We had a long chat until the rain slowed down, and then we both got on our bikes and headed in opposite directions. The best part of our conversation was seeing the looks on people’s faces as they passed. They were either stunned or smiling to see two white men speaking to each other in Japanese.
