Thursday, May 5, 2011
Children's Day Koinobori
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Subscribe To
Posts
Comments
Popular Posts
-
This is one of the more than 1000 Hina dolls on display at the Nagashibina Doll Museum in Mochigase Town, Tottori Nagashibina refers ... -
Mukade Caught this little bugger yesterday crawling across my floor. In japanese it is called Mukade, which means "100 legs"... -
While in Miyakonojo I stopped by a strange piece of architecture, the Miyakonojo Civic Center. It was built in 1966 and was designed b... -
Thursday November 24th, 2016, day 39 of my walk along the Saigoku Pilgrimage, and I descended from Kannonshoji Temple in the mountains nea... -
Komyozenji Temple is a 13th Century Rinzai Zen Temple adjacent to Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine in Fukuoka. The temple is famous for its two gar... -
A Buke Yashiki is best translated as samurai residence, and this one in the castle town of Matsue belonged to middle -ranked samurai. It i... -
Tuesday 25th November 2014 and I begin day 22 of my walk along the Chugoku Kannon Pilgrimage with a visit to Jyoeiji Temple in Yamaguchi C... -
Kobori Enshu ( 1579 - 1647 ) was an aristocrat most well known for being a Tea Master. He was also a painter, poet, and probably the most ... -
The next big temple after Daionji along Teramachi in Nagasaki is Kotaiji, and there was a little bit more to see here. The first building ... -
Hiroshima is one of the better-known Japanese cities to people outside Japan because of its unfortunate history, but the city did not begi...
Great pictures! I especially like the fourth photograph, in which a red koinobori really does look like swimming upstream.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos, I love koinobori! (^_^)
ReplyDelete