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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The great torii at Miyajima Island. Having seen its representation so much one wonders if it needs to be seen in person. But there it is, one of the 3 famous [...]

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } in Hiroshima prefecture. Just spent a pleasurable afternoon here despite working on less than 2 hours sleep. Came here mainly because of Ozu and glad I did. Might have more to [...]

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Now somewhere near Biwa lake, headed towards Kyoto. Lots of snow on the ground here, making for a very picturesque view as we whiz by (not depicted very well above). Didn’t [...]

2 years ago I got one of those chowari (deep-discount) deals from ANA that allowed you to go anywhere in Japan (excl. Okinawa) for the roundtrip ticket price of $200. I figured I should choose someplace as far away as possible, someplace that even on the shinkansen would take over 5 hours to get to. [...]

Scan of a postcard reproduced in the book Yukaku, showing Yoshiwara prostitutes dressed not as prostitutes but in the common fashion of the day, circa 1907-1911 (so says the book caption). One of the nice things about having a comments feature on one’s weblog, and which makes all the “blog spam” of late a tad [...]

Continuing with more snapshots from Hitachi, this time of my mother-in-law, who was born and raised there. In the first image, she is standing on the site of the house she grew up in, a company house rented from Hitachi Mine, who her father worked for. The house was razed many many years ago. The [...]