Inter-Japanese Travels by SPAM…

 

Inside a Shinkansen Bullet Train

 

They worship my father here…

 

5 Buddhas represented here in Kyoto

Amy in Kyoto at a Shinto Shrine

after getting her calligraphy book signed

 

amy wearing a really big hat

 

a shot of the largest bell in Japan being rung

in Kyoto to bring in the new year

the garden juxtapose “Silver Temple” in Kyoto

 

Silver Temple itself…

 

the burning of the new year’s wishes

Kyoto

 

the world’s largest wooden structure,

inside is the world’s largest cast Buddha

this is in Nara, which by itself isn’t much

of the world’s largest anything—but

an amazingly beautiful city, indeed

 

on this day in Nara, we met a very eccentric

gentleman with a modest studdor,

a sensible grasp of the English language,

one earphone dangling from his adjoining twin

tucked up under his hat, some sort of radio

murmur twining out of it—he told us of

his destination, up to the highest point in Nara,

at this particular shrine to view the sunset

as he did every evening

usually with his wife, but on this evening

he settled for our company.

It was  a scene and an experience that we shall never forget.

 

 

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Last updated 02/06/03