Some more photos from Asukayama Park!

The first monument is a bit difficult for me to read so I had to do a bit of research, but it seems to be a commemorative monument signifying the planting of various trees throughout the park to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Meiji Restoration, and as such, was constructed in 1968, so it's about 50 years old, probably one of the newer monuments of its kind within the park.

When I was walking back around the area I saw the dance stage from a different angle and managed to take a photo of the participants through a nice gap in the trees. There were a lot more participants this time so I stopped and watched it for a little while again.

At the other end of the park I found this statue of a woman which is actually a statue of the "Goddess of peace" and it was erected in 1974 to wish for world peace and happiness.
Even cooler, it was erected by the famous sculptor Seibo Kitamura who erected the "Peace Statue" at Peace Memorial Park in Nagasaki.
Really cool to see his works all the way in Tokyo as well!

Some more photos I took at Asukayama Park the other day. I really liked this statue of Avalokitesvara, as I felt like it was really well crafted. I included the description to this monument as it's hard to read what is carved onto the stone and it's written in older Japanese too so my friends couldn't even read it lol.

I think it has something to do with a poem about cherry blossoms although I could be wrong about that.

It's pretty cool seeing the older Japanese from hundreds of years ago though. Even if I can't read it it's interesting to see how the Japanese language itself has evolved throughout the years. I'll be posting more photos of this place tomorrow as well!

Went to Asukayama Park near Oji Station yesterday. I've passed by the area many times and seen the gondola leading to the top but never knew what was up there until now. It's a really big park dedicated to Shibusawa Eiichi, known as the father of capitalism in Japan.

The park has a bunch of monuments and cultural properties to check out so I managed to take a lot of photos and I'll be uploading them over the next few days. I chose a good day to go it seems too, as there was an event going on. It involved some traditional dances I think from the Oji area, and it involved some sort of sash that kind of reminded me of a kimono obi, but I'm not sure exactly what it is. They had a taiko drum as well but it seems I didn't make it in time to watch them playing, I only heard it in the distance when I was walking to the park.

I thought it was really cool seeing all the different monuments though. Many of them were several hundred years old and the Japanese on them was also and older form, so it was hard for me to read a lot of them lol. It was a really enjoyable experience though, so I'll upload some more photos tomorrow!

『大阪市北区』
夏が終わり蝉が死に、季節が移りゆく自然な日本の情景。

小田原城の天守閣から見た、秋晴れの空。
鳳凰が空を飛んでいる様な雲の流れがとても美しい。

Another photo from Kumagaya. This is a big map outside of Kumagaya Station's North Exit, depicting, from what I understand, Kumagaya and the surrounding area in 1936. It's a bit difficult to see, but if you zoom in you can see Kumagaya on the left side with Tokyo in the upper left behind it, and to the right of Kumagaya you can see Kami-Kumagaya, from there, if you look to the bottom-right you'll see Kumagaya City Hall and furthest to the right is Ishiwara. Underneath Ishiwara you can also see several schools elementary, middle, high school and a hospital.

It's quite difficult to see in this photo, but the mountain at the far back right is Mt. Asama, and you can see Nagatoro as well. On top of that, there's the Arakawa River running through the background of the entire map and a bridge connecting to Onuma Park as well.

There's tons of stuff to see in just this one map, I love looking at old maps and historic things like this. I could stare at it for hours and still find new and interesting things.

渡月橋

里山とからぶき屋根

葛城一言主神社にて。

コスモスとお寺の塔

Some photos I took during my visit to the Edo-Tokyo Museum. I really enjoyed seeing the recreations of the Edo cityscape and seeing what the city would have looked like back in the day. I like that you can also get a feel for what life was like at that time and you can even see people doing various jobs or holding tools related to them. I enjoyed seeing the boats as well, as it showed how shipping would been carried out at the time, and you also get to see the architecture of the ships, which was really awesome in my honest opinion. I also tried getting a decent photo of Tokugawa Ieyasu but I was really short on time when visiting as the museum was about to close, so I definitely need to go back there again. I wanted to see some of the other exhibits as well, stuff like the Great Kanto Earthquake exhibits, etc. so I have an excuse to visit again lol.

お寺の紅葉と塔のライトアップ

お寺の紅葉のライトアップ

山口県
錦帯橋
紅葉の奥に映る橋
紅葉や桜の時期に見られる姿

京都府
柳谷観音
紅葉のグラデーション

京都府
金閣寺
紅葉の絨毯
綺麗な紅葉が散ってもなお
綺麗に散って行った姿
紅葉の時期は散ってもまだ終わらない

日本の秋

昔ながらの庭 好古園

兵庫県にて

長野県、志賀高原蓮池にある元ゴンドラ乗り場からの眺め

冬季オリンピック開催の地

とってもノスタルジックなトコロ

佐賀県
唐津城
毎年唐津城背後から上がる
「二尺玉」
毎年この構図で写真を撮られる方が多く
滅多に撮れない構図を今年は納める事が出来ました
毎年9月開催される花火大会であり
マジックアワーの空と唐津城と花火は
今年の夏しか撮れない花火でしょう

佐賀県
伊万里湾
九州で滅多に見る事の出来ない
「三尺玉」
大きな音がなり
600〜650mが
視界いっぱいに入り込む花火

和歌山の那智に行ってきました！
階段がすごく綺麗でした😳
霧がかかっててちょっと寒かったです😅

「深川まつり」は水かけ祭りとして東京下町（江戸）の夏の風物詩です。

今年も京都祇園祭開催
コロナ対策で歩行者天国、
巡行は中止になりましたが
京都の伝統的夏の行事
祇園祭を守ると
各鉾町が結集して開催されました。

太宰府天満宮です。朱と緑のコントラストに目を奪われました。今にも蝉の声が聞こえてきそうです。

旧線路と竹林の風景

鳥取県にて

夏の仏様 緑深き中に仏様（世田谷区九品仏）

「岡山県 化生寺の河津桜」

岡山県真庭市の化生寺と河津桜🌸
地元の人もあまり知らない穴場スポット
知ってほしいけど知ってほしくないお気に入りのスポット。真庭市には歴史的なスポットがたくさんあるのでコロナが落ち着きましたらぜひ一度お越し下さい😁

「岡山県 倉敷美観地区 春宵あかり」

初めて行った春宵あかりはコロナの影響で規模縮小での開催でした。本来はもっと沢山の和傘灯りが道いっぱいに広がってるそうです。コロナが収まり通常規模での開催が出来たら是非もう一度見たい光景です🥰

アフターコロナで訪れたい場所として埼玉県の川越を選びました。歴史ある街並みの中に加え、数々の神社がある川越。夏の暑さを忘れるような涼しげな雰囲気があり、是非アフターコロナで皆様に行ってもらいたいと思い、この写真を選びました。

コロナ前に名古屋へ旅行に行ったときに撮りました。季節は夏でとてもよく晴れていてとても暑かったのを覚えています。
このときの名古屋城は工事をしていて、残念ながら城の中に入ることはできなかったので、周りを散策していました。

名古屋は食べ物も美味しいものがたくさんありましたし、また名古屋城に行って中も見てみたいなぁと思っているので、ワクチンが広まって安全に出かけられるようになってくれればいいなと思います。