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Izakaya (居酒屋) with yakiniku in Kofu
Hanging out in a place like this on a hot summer night in Japan is one of many reasons I’m hoping to go back this summer.
BTW, the fans on the counter aren’t for the customers. They are for the cook to fan the flames just right to cook the skewered chicken.
Shugakuin Imperial Villa‘s Rinuntei (隣雲亭) (Kyoto, Japan)
@OregonSB @CourtneyCeo22 @USSSAPride
The Ducks are looking for their third consecutive Pac-12 championship this season. They opened their season this past weekend in Arizona with a 6-0 record. Oregon won’t have Courtney Ceo this season as she has moved on to the professional USSSA Florida Pride team.
My Raiders are scheduled to play today in Ashland after going 4-0 on their road trip last week in California.
Brad Eldred of the Hiroshima Carp
@CARP__Hiroshima
At first glance this may look like a Cincinnati Reds game. A white, right-glove guy on first in a Reds uniform conjures up visions of Sean Casey, right? But the crowd gives this one away. This game was in Hiroshima, not Cincinnati.
Eldred had a mediocre first couple of seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball (.250 average and never more than 13 home runs in a season), but last year (2014) he emerged as a star. He hit .260 with 37 home runs and 104 RBIs in just 118 games. A mostly career minor leaguer, Eldred played a bit for the Pirates, Rockies, and Tigers in MLB between 2005 and 2012 before resurrecting his career in Japan last year at the age of 34.
Players in MLB will be trickling into their spring training camps over the next week or two. Preseason has already begun in Japan and preseason games will begin in less than two weeks.
peaking out my room window, this is a photomerge of Fudoin on Koyasan
Shosenkyo near Kofu, Japan
Kakuenbo (覚円峰) is the normal “face” of Shosenkyo, but the rocks in today’s photo have a similar appearance, even from this different angle. Maybe this is the backside of Kakuenbo; I’m not sure.
When I took this photo I had just come from more than a month of looking at and hiking through somewhat similar rocks in the mountains above Gwangju in South Korea.
BTW, I took today’s photo from a place called Yasaburotake (弥三郎岳), a giant rock you can get to easily from the top of the Shosenkyo Ropeway (昇仙峡ロープウェイ). Most people doing the ropeway are heading to this spot so just follow the Japanese people.