March 2009 - Japan
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Favorites (Contents of this page subject to change.) |
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Traveling is also about eating. Some pictures of food |
Guardian deities, and other images. |
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Okinawa Okinawa [Feb.24-26] Okinawa [Feb.27] Okinawa [Feb.28->] | |||
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Yakushima Yakushima 'Sennoie' our first night [Mar.03] Yakushima Unsuikyo - forest walk [Mar.04] Yakushima 'Sugizo' our second night [Mar.04] Yakushima drive [Mar.05] Yakushima Banyan ('gajumaru') Trees [Mar.05] Yakushima 'Soyoutei' our final night [Mar.05] |
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Southern Island; mountainous, with old-growth 'yaku-sugi' trees (Cryptomeria or Japanese cedar); where they way it rains 35 days a month | Yakushima |
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Kagoshima [Mar.06] |
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Ferry to Osaka [Mar.06-07] |
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Osaka [Mar.08] |
69 | Shitinno-ji Temple, Osaka Castle, Tengu Shrine | |
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Kyoto - memories from living here 29 years ago! Ryoanji [Mar.10] Nijo Castle [Mar.10] and lunch & stuff. Shimogamo Jinja (Shrine) [Mar.11] Kurama [Mar.11] Shugakuin Rikkyu (Detached Palace) [Mar.12] |
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Kyoto Daigaku Experimental Forest. | Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities) |
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Nara [Mar.12-13] Rainy, cold. |
36 | Procession at Kasuga Taisha (Shrine); 'Shunie', The torch running Ritual of Nigatsudo Hall, on the grounds of Todaiji (Temple). | Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara |
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Koyasan [Mar.14] Snow! Temples & temples! & cemetaries |
69 | Koyasan is a monastic center founded twelve centuries ago by the priest Kukai (posthumously known as Kobo Daishi) for the study and practice of Esoteric Buddhism. | Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range |
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Takaoka [Mar.15-16] Friends |
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Tokyo [Mar.15-26] Shibuya [Mar.26] Hayashi Fumuki House [Mar.19] |
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Ikebukuro, Omote-sando, Ikebukuro again, Meiji Jinju, etc. | |
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Kiyosato [Mar.21-22] Friends |
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Nikko [Mar.23-24] Keggon Falls; Chuzen-ji Lake & Temple [Mar.23] Tomozawa Imperial Villa[Mar.23] Toshogu[Mar.24] |
20 24 18 44 | Nikko is at the entrance to Nikko National Park, famous for the Toshogu, Japan's most lavishly decorated shrine complex and mausoleum of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Also center of Shinto and Buddhist mountain worship for many centuries. | Shrines and Temples of Nikko |