{"id":3936,"date":"2009-12-17T16:44:35","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T23:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=3936"},"modified":"2009-12-17T16:50:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T23:50:18","slug":"autumn-leaves-at-waseda-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/autumn-leaves-at-waseda-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Leaves at Waseda University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04160133trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04160133trim-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"waseda university in fall \u65e9\u7a32\u7530\u5927\u5b66\u3000\u79cb\" title=\"waseda university in fall \u65e9\u7a32\u7530\u5927\u5b66\u3000\u79cb\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04160133trim-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04160133trim-187x250.jpg 187w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04160133trim.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fall season and &#8220;back to school&#8221; go hand-in-hand in many parts of the states. In Tokyo the fall colors a delayed by not weeks, but months. Today&#8217;s photos were taken in December. The foliage on the <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/waseda-university\/>Waseda University<\/a> campus, although mostly gone now, was quite beautiful in late November and early December.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04113428trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04113428trim-584x800.jpg\" alt=\"college student motorcycles waseda university tokyo japan fall leaves foliage\" title=\"college student motorcycles waseda university tokyo japan fall leaves foliage\" width=\"584\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04113428trim-584x800.jpg 584w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04113428trim-182x250.jpg 182w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04113428trim.jpg 657w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once the leaves began to fall, the campus looked quite different in early morning, before the cleaning crews arrived. The place was blanketed in leaves.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the Japanese are far too efficient at raking leaves. They do so on a daily basis so seeing the leaves on the ground is something of a rarity. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04113242trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04113242trim-450x800.jpg\" alt=\"waseda university campus grounds crew raking leaves tokyo japan\" title=\"waseda university campus grounds crew raking leaves tokyo japan\" width=\"450\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04113242trim-450x800.jpg 450w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04113242trim-140x250.jpg 140w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/04113242trim.jpg 507w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the above photo you can see three grounds keepers removing the fallen leaves, pretty much as they fall. There were probably 10 people on campus doing nothing but making sure leaves were not under foot. I would have preferred to walk through a few inches of the stuff myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fall season and &#8220;back to school&#8221; go hand-in-hand in many parts of the states. In Tokyo the fall colors a delayed by not weeks, but months. Today&#8217;s photos were taken in December. The foliage on the Waseda University campus, although mostly gone now, was quite beautiful in late November and early December. Once the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[176,30,222,227],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3936"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3993,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions\/3993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}