May 5th is Children’s Day. It used to be Boy’s Day, but in 1948 when the government made it an official holiday, they changed the day to be for both boys and girls. A little unfair, don’t you think? Girl’s already have their own festival on March 3rd! In the photo below you can see [...]
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Sunset at Cherry Blossom festival
Today’s photo is a wide shot of the Oto river in Okazaki. This was taken towards the end of the blossoms, so many had already fallen. But you can still see a few on either side of the river. You can also make out the lights among them. Typically, most cities light up the blossoms at night. [...]
Photo of the week: Mejiro on cherry tree
These pink cherry trees are called kawazu-zakura. They are very popular in Izu, but not so much in the rest of the country — not as much as the white (someiyoshino) ones anyways. I happen to prefer these over the white variety. The bird is called a mejiro. I think it is a Japanese White-Eye [...]
Photo of the week: Sakura along the Oto River
Let’s try something new here. I take lots of photos and occasionally post them on this blog. I want to post them more often, so I’m going to put myself on a schedule here. Every week I’ll post a photo of the week. Today being Tuesday, let’s make the day for the photo of the [...]
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Good couple day
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Jon L: Beautiful....
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David LaSpina / JapanDave: Fair enough. Glad you liked the photo, at least ;)...
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Guest: Like the photo. Dislike the texture. Just my $0.02...
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