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★ Teahouse Path in Fall

JapanDave — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 01:30:51 +0000

This is a nice area at any time of year, but especially so in the autumn and spring when you have either fall leaves or cherry blossoms to look at. The empty patch you see on the left of the photo is the corner of the rock garden, by the way. They don’t rake it as often as the ones in Kyoto, so it often looks like a mess, but you know… still a rock garden.

I considered cropping in tighter here to make a better scene, but ultimately decided not to. Here’s what I had in mind:

What do you think—should I have cropped like this for the final pic?

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★ Lantern Minimalism

JapanDave — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 02:08:51 +0000

There is something special about these stone lanterns. I love the look of them. The specific kind photoed below is Oribe-dōrō¹. It is said to have been designed by Furuta Shuigenari, often called Furuta Oribe, a retainer of Nobunaga and Hideyoshi² and student of Sen no Rikyu³, who became known as the top tea master in the country after his teacher’s death.

Shuigenari designed his own version of the tea ceremony and these these lanterns for use at his tea gardens. They give off light pleasantly and are often used to light garden paths. Sometimes you see them with crosses and other Christian symbols on them, in which case they are called Christian Lanterns (Kirishitan-dōrō).

Very often zooming in very tightly on a subject makes it more interesting. That’s what I was going for here, at least. Do you think it worked?

Check out other photos of Stone Lanterns.

oh-ree-beh doh-roe ↩
The first two of the big three unifiers of Japan. A brief overview. ↩
The guy most responsible for the Japanese tea ceremony we all know today. See more at our good friend Wikipedia. ↩

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★ Working the Field

JapanDave — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:27:46 +0000

Daily HDR Photo — Working the Field

Today’s photo is another Shirakawa shot. A farmer working one of his many fields.

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This is the same guy who I snapped from overhead while on the mountain that overlooks the town.

Shirakawa is such a nice, peaceful place. I really need to get back there sometime.

More Shirakawa

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★ Hidden Faces: Smily Building

JapanDave — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:01:37 +0000

Daily HDR Photo — Smily Building

Today’s photo is a building with a face. Does it look like a smile to you?

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I suppose it could just as well be frowning, or even just chilling out and not making any expression at all. It’s a face, at any rate.

You see faces in the strangest places when you look for them. There are entire websites dedicated to the faces people find in ordinary everyday objects. Here’s the first google result I get.

There is even a wikipedia entry for it. Hidden Faces.

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★ Let's Take a Walk: Peaceful Field at Sunset

JapanDave — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:17:01 +0000

Daily HDR Photo — Let’s Take a Walk

Today’s photo is a pleasant scene from a rice field with the multi-colored light from the sunset poking through and highlighting the clouds nicely.

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If you look closely, you can see a bunch of people walking in the photo. Towards evening, many drive to the rice fields just in order to take relaxing walks through them. I’m sure this amuses the farmers to no end.

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