Brass Knuckles

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Like brass knuckles pounding the coastline.
Run or drown.
A hollow trunk, eaten from inside out.
Blind me with rhythms,
Deafen me with weighty light.
Lost to time, lost to memory, lost to the crashing coastline.

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Electro House 2017 Club Mix (PeeTee Mixplode 144)

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Am enjoying this particular mix tonight as I do some work at Starbucks.

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Yamashita-Koen Dori Avenue

Yamashita-Koen Dori

Autumn gingko trees lining Yamashita-Koen Dori (Yamashita Park Street), which runs parallel to Yamashita Park located on the Yokohama Port waterfront. 

ISO 800 at  ƒ/11 for 1/100 sec.

#YamashitaPark #YamashitaKoen #YamashitaKoenDori #YamashitaParkStreet #Gingko #GingkoTree #MaidenhairTree #autumn #fall #AutumnLeaves #AutumnFoliage #FallColors #Yokohama

#山下公園 #山下公園通り #イチョウの木 #秋 #紅葉 #秋の色 #秦野の観光 #横浜

Osanbashi Pier

The Royal Wing docked at Osanbashi Pier in the Port of Yokohama.

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#OsanbashiPier #RoyalWing #cruiseship #YokohamaPort #PortofYokohama #Yokohama #Japan

#大さん橋 #大桟橋 #大さん橋国際客船ターミナル #横浜港 #クルーズ船 #ロイヤルウイング #横浜

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Mt. Fuji

Mount Fuji

View of snowcapped Mt. Fuji as seen looking west from the peak of Mt. Tonodake approximately  40.88 km (25.40 mi) away. 

ISO 400 at  ƒ/14 for 1/400 sec.

#MtFuji #MountFuji #MtTo #MountTo #Tonodake #MtTounodake #Tanzawa #mountains #volcano #nature #peak

#富士山 #丹沢山地 #塔ノ岳 #ハイキング #秦野 #登る #山に登る #秦野の観光

Mount Fuji

View of snowcapped Mt. Fuji as seen 40.88 km (25.40 mi) away on the peak Mt. Tonodake with sharp ridges of the Tanzawa mountain range in the foreground.

ISO 400 at  ƒ/14 for 1/500 sec.

#MtFuji #MountFuji #MtTo #MountTo #Tonodake #MtTonodake #Tanzawa #mountains #volcano #nature #peak

#富士山 #丹沢山地 #塔ノ岳 #ハイキング #秦野 #登る #山に登る #秦野の観光

Mount Fuji

Silhouette of the eastern slope of Mt. Fuji with numerous ridges of the Tanzawa mountain range crisscrossing in the foreground as seen from the peak of Tonodake.

ISO 400 at  ƒ/11 for 1/1000 sec.

#MtFuji #MountFuji #MtTo #MountTo #Tonodake #MtTonodake #Tanzawa #mountains #volcano #nature #peak #blue #sky #clouds #peak #altitude #Fujisan #stratovolcano #symmetrical #culturalicon #forests

#富士山 #丹沢山地 #塔ノ岳 #ハイキング #秦野 #登る #山に登る #秦野の観光

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Tori-no-Ichi Festival

Okonomiyaki

A kind of Japanese comfort food with distinct regional varieties, okonomiyaki is popular at neighborhood Shinto festivals and major events where street vendors are allowed to set up their tiny tents and propane fueled grills. More like a kind of pancake, okonomiyaki is with a wheat-flour based batter mixed with vegetables, pork, seafood, and a thick, sweet Worcestershire-kind of sauce. This photo shows a popular version of okonomiyaki with sunny-side-up eggs served on top with bonito flakes and sprinkled seaweed. 

ISO 1600 at  ƒ/5.6 for 1/100 sec.

#okonomiyaki #JapaneseFood #JapanesePancake #OsakaSoulFood #JapaneseCuisine #TorinoIchiFestival #Bandobashi #Yokohama

#お好み焼き #和食 #大阪のソウルフード #お祭り #祭り #酉の市 #金刀比羅大鷲神社 #阪東橋 #横浜

Kumade Hanging from Ceiling of Vendor Stand

A traditional bamboo ornamental rake where the claw part is heavily decorated with colorful traditional items that represent fortune and good luck. Kumade (lit. bear hand) rakes are sold at Tori-no-Ichi (lit. bird market) festivals in November on days of the rooster according to the lunar calendar. The kumade represents the clawing/raking of wealth and prosperity for one's business. A kumade the size of your hand can be bought for a thousand yen (roughly $10) while larger ones standing over 2 meters high (6 feet) can cost as much as 50,000 yen (roughly $500). Some very special kumade can be bought for over 10 million yen (roughly $100,000)!

ISO 800 at  ƒ/4.5 for 1/60 sec.

#kumade #BambooRake #TorinoIchiFestival #FestivalofRooster #KotohiraOtoriShrine #Bandobashi #Yokohama

#熊手 #酉の市 #金刀比羅大鷲神社 #阪東橋 #横浜　#お祭り #祭り

Hotei: God of Contentment and Happiness.

A version of a kumada rake that has a pair of Buddha called Hotei in Japanese. Hotei are easily recognized by their broad smiles, bulging bellies, and a cloth bag they carry over their shoulder that never empties even as the Hotei hands out gifts to the poor, needy, and children. Hotei is also the patron saint of restaurateurs and bartenders, which makes this type of kumade popular among owners of eating and drinking establishments.

ISO 800 at  ƒ/4.5 for 1/30 sec.

#Hotei #kumade #BambooRake #TorinoIchiFestival #FestivalofRooster #KotohiraOtoriShrine #Bandobashi #Yokohama

#布袋 #熊手 #酉の市 #金刀比羅大鷲神社 #阪東橋 #横浜　#お祭り #祭り

Candied Strawberries

Food stalls set up at and around the local Shinto Shrine during the Tori-no-Ichi Festival include many kinds of festival food and snacks. In addition to candied apples, candied grapes, and chocolate covered bananas, candied strawberries were very popular at this festival.

ISO 800 at  ƒ/5.6 for 1/100 sec.

#strawberry #CandiedStrawberry #JapaneseFestivalFood #JapaneseStreetFood #TorinoIchiFestival #Bandobashi #Yokohama

#イチゴ #いちご飴 #お祭り屋台のいちご飴 #お祭り #祭り #酉の市 #金刀比羅大鷲神社 #阪東橋 #横浜

Goldfish

Among many kinds of games for children to play at a Japanese festival, a game dating back to 1810 called goldfish scooping (金魚すくい/kingyo-sukui) is a popular one where you use a paper scoop to carefully and quickly scoop up as many fish as you can before the paper scoop breaks. A special plastic bag is provided so that you can take the fish home to keep in a fishbowl.

ISO 800 at  ƒ/5.6 for 1/100 sec.

#goldfish #GoldfishScooping #FestivalGames #TorinoIchiFestival #KotohiraOtoriShrine #Bandobashi #Yokohama

#金魚 #金魚すくい #金魚掬い #祭りのゲーム #お祭り #酉の市 #金刀比羅大鷲神社 #阪東橋 #横浜

Salt-Grilled Ayu

The sweet and juicy ayu, or sweetfish, is another common staple of street food vendors at festivals. Sweetfish, a smaller cousin of salmon,  are heavily salted and grilled in a circle around a charcoal flame. Since you don't need a grill, propane gas, or any fancy sauce, salt-grilled sweetfish is the king of outdoor cooking when camping or having a barbecue on the shores of Japan's many crystal-clear mountain rivers.

ISO 800 at  ƒ/5.6 for 1/100 sec.

#shioyakiayu #saltgrilledayu #skeweredfish #Japanesestreetfood #TorinoIchiFestival #Bandobashi #Yokohama

#あゆ #鮎 #塩焼き #お祭り #祭り #酉の市 #金刀比羅大鷲神社 #阪東橋 #横浜

Fortune Telling by Birthday

An omikuji is a single piece of paper folded into a tiny booklet sold at Shinto shrines and some Buddhist temples. This photo is of a huge billboard with omikuji that are sorted for each day of the year. After you purchase the tiny booklet (omkikuji) according to your date of birth, you unfold it to read a divination of your near future. Omikuji tell your fortune related to love, travel, business, illness, etc. Since every shrine has its own Kami (deity), the omikuji fortune telling can vary from shrine to shrine depending on what kind of kami is housed at that particular shrine. The Kami housed at the Kotohira-Otori Shrine here in Yokohama is a guardian deity for business prosperity. So, the omikuji sold here tend focus on telling fortunes related to businesses or financial matters.

ISO 800 at  ƒ/4.5 for 1/30 sec.

#omikuji #fortunetelling #fortunepaper #Japanesefortune #TorinoIchiFestival #KotohiraOtoriShrine #Bandobashi #Yokohama

#誕生日別のおみくじ #御神籤 #お祭り #祭り #酉の市 #金刀比羅大鷲神社 #阪東橋 #横浜

Japanese Candied Fruit

Mizu-ame, which is a kind of honey-like syrup made from rice, potatoes, or barley, is s popular sweet sold at festivals where pieces of fruit are skewered with disposable chopsticks and cooled on a slab of ice before serving. Different fruit are used including mandarin orange slices, Japanese apricots, plums, cherries, strawberries, and more. Adding food coloring enhances the festive mood of this snack.

ISO 800 at  ƒ/5.6 for 1/100 sec.

#mizuame #anzuame #JapaneseFestivalFood #JapaneseStreetFood #KotohiraOtoriShrine #TorinoIchiFestival #Bandobashi #Yokohama

#水飴 #あんず飴 #お祭り屋台 #お祭り #祭り #酉の市 #金刀比羅大鷲神社 #阪東橋 #横浜

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Kawasaki Park

Nice Catch!

Spent an evening last October at a big park in Kawasaki where there were hardly any people around, which gave me the chance to play Frisbee with Dale-chan. It was really hard to throw the disk and then try to focus in time to catch while she is mid-air trying to catch her Frisbee.

ISO 800 at ƒ/4.5 for 1/400 sec.

#dog #pet #BorderCollie #Frisbee

#犬 #愛犬 #ボーダーコリー #フリスビー #ディスクキャッチ

Although the so-called golden hour and blue hour are great for landscape photography, I have learned that such low-light conditions make it real tough to get a tack-sharp photo of a dog quickly flying through the air. Will have to try this kind of shot again during the afternoon under a clear sky and a wider aperture.

ISO 800 at ƒ/4.5 for 1/640 sec.

#dog #pet #BorderCollie #Frisbee #disc #disk

#犬 #愛犬 #ボーダーコリー #フリスビー #ディスクキャッチ #ディスク

Happy Border Collie

A dog and her disc.

ISO 800 at ƒ/4.5 for 1/250 sec.

#dog #pet #BorderCollie #Frisbee #disc #disk

#犬 #愛犬 #ボーダーコリー #フリスビー #ディスクキャッチ #ディスク

Anticipation.

Finally found a use for the app on my phone that allows me to change settings and take shots on the camera while mounted to a tripod. After several attempts, I gave up trying to get her head centered perfectly. Every time I moved the disk, she would move and get out of focus or lunge for the disk. In the end, we had fun just throwing the disk and catching it mid-air.

ISO 400 at ƒ/5.6 for 1/60 sec.

#dog #pet #BorderCollie #Frisbee #disc #disk

#犬 #愛犬 #ボーダーコリー #フリスビー #ディスクキャッチ #ディスク

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Sasuke Inari Shrine Kamakura

Yachts Offshore

Yachts from Australia, Japan, Great Britain, New Zealand, Poland, and the USA.

ISO 400 at ƒ/16 for 1/400 sec.

#sailing #sailboats #SagamiBay #Route134 #ShichirigahamaBeach #Kamakura #Japan

#セーリング #ヨット #相模湾 #国道134号 #鎌倉

Rounding the Bend

Shot of a west-bound 300 series train on the Enoshima Electric Railway (founded in 1902). The line basically runs along the coastline between Fujisawa and Kamakura on a single track. There are several passing loops along the line, which allow both east-bound and west-bound trains to run simultaneously.

On weekdays, the train is crowded with office commuters and students. On weekends and holidays, the trains are crowded with tourists enjoying seascapes while going to and from Kamakura, which was one of the ancient capitals of Japan between 1192  and 1333.

ISO 400 at ƒ/14 for 1/320 sec.

#train #tunnel #Enoden #SagamiBay #Route134 #ShichirigahamaBeach #Kamakura #Japan

#電車 #江ノ電 #相模湾 #国道134号 #鎌倉

End of Tunnel

Riding the east-bound train on the Enoden Line heading to Kamakura. The Yuigahama Beach near this tunnel has very calm waves and is a popular site for windsurfers.  

ISO 400 at ƒ/4 for 1/60 sec.

#train #Enoden #YuigahamaBeach #Kamakura #Japan

#電車 #江ノ電 #相模湾 #由比ヶ浜 #鎌倉

A giboshi is the onion-shaped ornamental finial used on the tops of railing posts of a shrine or temple. Giboshi can also be seen on bridge posts in a traditional garden. Most giboshi that I have seen are made of brass or bronze and have become heavily oxidized. In Japan, this architectural element dates back to the 12th and 13th century making them ubiquitous at almost any shrine or temple.

ISO 400 at ƒ/4 for 1/60 sec.

#giboshi #giboshikouran #balustrade #railpost #ornamental #finial #shrine #traditional #Shinto #architecture #Kamakura #Japan

#擬宝珠 #擬宝珠高欄 #宝珠 #和様 #神社 #神道 #鎌倉

Torii Gates

These torii gates line a narrow stone path leading to Sasuke Inari Shrine, which is tucked away between where two hills meet lined with sharp cliffs and a dense green canopy. The shrine was established 800 years ago by Minamoto Yoritomo, the first Shogun of Kamakura, in gratitude to a white fox that advised him on battle victories, which allowed him to become Shogun. Each torii gate has been donated by individuals or companies praying for their own victories in business. The flags next to each torii gate show the name of the shrine and the names of each donor.

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#torii #toriigates #flags #InariShrine #SasukeInariShrine #shrine #traditional #Shinto #Kamakura #Japan

#鳥居 #指物 #幟 #稲荷神社 #佐助稲荷神社 #神社 #日本の伝統文化 #神道 #鎌倉

White Foxes

According to legend, Minamoto Yoritomo (1185–1333) had a dream where an Inari Fox messenger appeared and gave him strategic battle advice. Minamoto won his battles and gained the power to establish a new government in Kamakura where he became Japan's first shogun and to establish a new class of warriors called samurai. Nowadays, visitors to Sasuke Inari Shrine (established by Minamoto) offer prayers with a small white porcelain Inari Fox in hopes of achieving their own personal "battle" victory, which can range from giving birth to a child to winning an important business contract. The forest canopy enveloping the shrine has created a lush, green landscape where every last inch of every carved stone and wooden structure is covered in moss. This stands in stark contrast with the shiny new little white porcelain Inari Foxes that crowd every flat surface near the shrine.

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#fox #inariokami #foxdeity #InariShrine #SasukeInariShrine #shrine #traditional #Shinto #Kamakura #Japan

#キツネ #稲荷大神 #大稲荷 #稲荷神社 #佐助稲荷神社 #神社 #日本の伝統文化 #神道 #鎌倉

Inari Fox Messengers

Traditionally, white foxes were believed to deliver messages to man from the Inari deity. Over time, the foxes themselves have become the objects of worship themselves. In modern times, many patrons to an Inari Shrine are more likely to be tourists (like me) who buy a porcelain fox and place it next to the shrine as a kind of good-luck charm in hopes of having a wish fulfilled. The Sasuke Inari Shrine is off the beaten path and not a popular destination for the hordes of tourists. It’s great to visit such a shrine and have the whole place to myself. One can sit and ponder the rich history surrounding the shrine, relax and take deep breaths of the fresh air, mellow in the aroma of the dense forest, and try to imagine the clothes, conversations, and feelings of other visitors to this same shrine over the past 800 years.

ISO 400 at ƒ/4 for 1/50 sec.

#fox #inariokami #foxdeity #InariShrine #SasukeInariShrine #shrine #traditional #Shinto #Kamakura #Japan

#キツネ #稲荷大神 #大稲荷 #稲荷神社 #佐助稲荷神社 #神社 #日本の伝統文化 #神道 #鎌倉

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