Samurai
Bet you didn’t know they had cameras back in the age of the samurai. This was Japan after all. What did you expect?
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Karaoke and Party in Ikebukuro
The establishment in the background says “Karaoke and Party” (カラオケ & パーテイー). If you have seen “Lost in Translation” you may be familiar with these kinds of places. This particular カラオケ館 (they are all over Tokyo) is to the southeast of Ikebukuro Station.
Monday morning quarterbacking with “Bobby 2010”
The Chiba Lotte Marines are going to the Japan Series this week. Bobby Valentine is not the manger in 2010. He was the manager during their losing seasons the past several years. Despite the loses, the fans wanted him back this year for another go. I took today’s picture during a 2009 game. Fans were mad at management for not signing Valentine to the 2010 season. I wonder what they think now that the Marines are doing so much better without him?
Ginza’s Nenrinya’s Baumkuchen (銀座にあるねんりん屋のバームクーヘン)
I didn’t know what these things were when I photographed them through a window in Ginza (the first floor of Matsuzakaya). They looked like some sort of high-end Krispy Kreme. Actually they are cake, very expensive cake, like everything else in Ginza.
Japanese Bride
The photographer made some last minute adjustments to this October bride outside the Four Seasons Hotel in Chinzanso.
Heavy Metal Koto
I didn’t know which blog this would be most fitting to post on so I’m posting it, with different photos, both here and on my Ashland Daily Photo blog.
This past Sunday, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival was having its “Culture Fest.” At noon a matinée Green Show featured Mitsuki Dazai on the Japanese koto. Ms. Dazai was lots of fun between songs, telling stories and enchanting the crowd.
Here she is performing Shaei (斜影 or “Diagonal Shadows”) by Hikaru Sawai (沢井 比河流). Sawai was in a heavy metal band before writing this piece for the koto.