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Buddha statues between Tenryuji and Togetsukyo Bridge
With the heavy tourist traffic between Togetsukyo (渡月橋) and Tenryuji (天龍寺) an otherwise missed tofu restaurant attracts lots of attention with these curious statues of the Buddha next to their parking lot. Here is a photo from the same statue garden from a different season.
Finger puppets in Tokyo’s Yanaka
The details in these displays in the window of Shokichi can keep me staring for long periods of time. Head on in for a puppet show.
Shofukuji kittens
Two nights ago I watched Tampopo (タンポポ) for the first time. If you haven’t seen this flick, you should. Although mostly about ramen, it also is about eating in all forms. So when today’s photo showed up as my desktop image of the day it felt appropriate to link the two. Although you can only see parts of two of them, there were actually about five kittens enjoying breakfast via mama cat on this morning.
Takeda Shingen Statue (武田信玄之像)
Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
I went past this statue multiple times a day for the first seven months I lived in Japan in the 1980s. I have changed much since then, but it hasn’t changed a bit.
Shofukuji (Hakata, Fukuoka, Japan)
Big or small, famous or not, I love visiting temples in Japan with no crowds. (Crowds can be fun too when there is a matsuri, bon odori, or something going on.) There were no other people at Shofukuji (聖福寺) on this weekday in June with rain threatening. However, I was not alone. The Japanese black crows made their presence very known to me. They made a few dives in my neighborhood as I was taking this photo and were squawking so loudly you would have thought I was standing on their nest. (I assure you I was not.)
In any event, I had to take this quick picture before splitting as I didn’t want another bloody gash in my head (which is what happened the last time a Japanese black crow didn’t like me).
View from Iwaso (岩惣)
Sorry for all of the rainy Japan pics. Rain fell nearly every day I was in Japan this past June and August. When I looked out the window of my room at Iwaso I saw this. If I walked down the hall and looked out the windows on the other side I saw the scene presented in today’s photo.