Blue Tile Roof: Ao!!!
Here in “Nor’England” there are few tile roofs. Over there, in Japan, are many. I don’t know a lot about these roof tiles. In Japanese they’re called “kawara”. Here’s a […]
Category Archives: Architecture
Facing The Tracks
I was walking into Oppama, and was waiting for a train to pass… when I noticed the backsides of the buildings that line the tracks. They were asking to have […]
Details of Japan
Let me share with you ten things that caught my eye in Japan. In no particular order…. So many things to see. So little time.
Tiger House Floor
We and family were snaking around the Tokyo Zoo (Ueno Zoological Gardens) when we came to the Tiger House. People were waiting outside to get in. Actually, the tiger was […]
Drain Spotting
On the first full day in Japan, I looked down onto the street pavement and saw something that made me realize that we were definitely NOT in the United States […]
Details from the Incense Burner at the Kamakura Great Buddha.
We went to see the Great Buddha at the Kōtoku-in Temple in Kamakara. In front of the Buddha is a great, bronze incense burner. One of the first things I […]
Japan: Things Seen
I’m feeling a tad schizophrenic, experiencing this place I’ve never been to before. There is a jagged line separating and uniting my known home culture and this other culture on […]
Details and Close-ups.
For your viewing pleasure, here is a collection of things-seen. Steel bamboo. Flowers near an entry gate. Welcome to spring. Lamp in a park. Plants in a wall. Tended birds. […]
First Walk.
To travel twenty-four hours with little sleep makes a person dead-tired. I may even have been asleep before my body touched the mattress. The night’s sleep was an expedition to […]
An Unexpected Find
When I built our house over thirty years ago, unknown at the time, there were in it seeds for self-destruction in the bathrooms. For some reason or other, paint never […]
