Fishermen love this place, and there are often at least two or three scattered around. Not too far from either side of the river there are houses, highways, and noise, but at least right here the fishermen can pretend it is the countryside, as it likely once was years ago when they were young. Continue Reading →
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When the rains cometh
Rainy Rice Paddy
It’s rainy season right now in Japan, so nearly every day is rain. Lots of people hate this time because it’s dark and gloomy and it’s hard to go anywhere if you don’t have a car. Also, the humidity is pretty high. Everything in my apartment that can absorb water, like say paper, is wet.
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A view of the sky
Cloudy Sunset
A nice sunset, one that may signal the end of times, and a few words about a cool new service I’ve recently discovered.
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Nice Day For a Stroll
In the Rice Field
Standing in the middle of some rice fields, looking towards the train tracks and the houses, apartments, and condos beyond.
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Views from Cherry Blossom Season
Sakura Blizzard at Shrine
It’s tough to find a more beautiful sight in Japan than the Cherry Blossoms raining down towards the end of their life every Spring. Called Sakura Fubuki (桜吹雪 — cherry blossom blizzard) this is one event that just about everyone looks forward to seeing.
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Castles, sky, and.. condo??
Okazaki Castle Guard Tower
This is a nice landscape shot I took from Okazaki Castle a while ago. I liked the clouds and that’s what made me take it. Although it’s not the focus of the photo itself, the tower may draw your eye more than anything, so let’s talk about that.
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Cherry Blossom Viewing
Under Sakura Cover
From Iga River, from around the same place I took this one if memory serves, but facing in the opposite direction and on a different day. We only had a handful of days before the sakura all showered down, and I was there for each one.
This was around 5pm so the light was sinking. Given the way the trees cover the river, this created shadows everywhere, which made this really hard to take even using HDR. I’m not entirely happy with the result, but it does do a good job showing how awesome this river looked.
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Where aborted babies go to rest
Water Children Cemetery
I’m not positive, but I’m pretty sure this is a temple for so called Mizuko (水子), that is Water Children. These are children who have been aborted, were stillborn, or died in miscarriage. Some Buddhist Temples offer a service called mizuko kuyo to help parents come to peace with this tragedy. Often as part of this service, the grieving parents buy a Jizo statue and dress it in their child’s clothes.
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Cherry Blossom Beauty
Sakura Covered River II
Another photo from Iga River, the river I discovered a week ago that is covered by sakura (cherry blossoms) for about 8kms (5 miles). Go see part 1. This time I took the photo from a little below the blossoms so you can see the tunnel effect they created.
There is a small local business off to the side that sells 10 yen manju, these are sweets filed with red bean paste. Good snacks. It was super busy there with huge lines — I bet they made good money this week. After buying a few of them, everyone would come out to eat them under the blossoms.
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