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Today was the 50th anniversary since the shrine Meiji Jingu was rebuilt after it was destroyed during the Second World War. For the celebration they did not close the shrine at 5 pm as usual, today Meiji Jingu it was opened until 8:30h and there was special illumination everywhere. It was really beautiful!
Those are [...]
Tsukimi (月見 => 月: Moon, 見:view, look, see) is a tradition that came to Japan from China 1.500 years ago. The tradition’s purpose is to appreciate the beauty of the Moon and thank the Gods for the last rice crop season. It is celebrated the first time there is full Moon in Autumn and during [...]
Meiji Jingu is one of the most touristic spots in Tokyo. It is also a pretty important shinto shrine and therefore zillions of weddings are celebrated there. I find funny that most first visitors to Meiji Jingu think they had luck because they could see a traditional wedding celebration going on there, they think it [...]
Kongogumi was founded in 578 and it’s considered as the oldest company that has been always active since the beginning. I’m sure the people who founded this company did not write a business plan, or maybe they did and they wrote that they needed website. Right now they have a cool website, but they continue [...]
I found this interesting “minitemple”/”relic” walking somewhere in a lost place in Setagaya, one of my favorite neighbourhoods in Tokyo.
My mother recommended me a novel called The Temple of the Golden Pavilion written by Yukio Mishima. The main character is a buddhist monk who is obsessed with the beauty of the Golden Pavilion(Kinkaku-ji - 金閣寺), he is so obsessed that the image of the temple starts to appear in his mind when having sexual [...]
Goemon is the Japanese “Robin Hood”. He was a ninja who stole money and gold from rich people and gave it to poor people. I’m reading a book about his life and the most interesting thing is how he died. The legend says that Toyotomi Hideyoshi(One of the most important feudal lords in the history [...]
Ema (絵馬) are small shinto traditional plaques that are usually located below sacred trees in Japanese shrines. When you go to a shrine you buy an ema, you write your wishes and hopes into it and they you hang it together with the other emas. Emas are near the gods, so they can read them [...]
I while ago I took some pictures of geishas/geikos dancing. Unfortunately, light was not good and my color pictures are crap, I converted them to black and white and the result is not that bad.
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The pictures from the previous post were taken at “Awa Odori” 阿波踊り festival in Koenji (Tokyo) two weeks ago. It is a “matsuri” original from Tokushima (Shikoku), but it is also celebrated in Tokyo since the fifties.
I went with Roy who is very experienced, he is being attending Awa Odori during more than 15 years! [...]
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