A flute playing traditional music under a highway bridge
A woman picking edible wild plants by the roadside
A monk in robes and a conical hat, chanting outside someone’s front door.
A man wearing gaudy samurai armor, and another wearing just the shoulder pads, walking past a convenience store.
An out-of-the-way shrine with an unusual rope decoration: what does it represent? Answer at the end of this post.
Bush warblers calling to each other deep in a bamboo thicket.
Everywhere magnolia trees with raggedy snow-white flowers, petals akimbo; cherry trees with swollen buds about to open.
A man with a camera and a huge lens, taking pictures of birds down on the concrete river bed.
And on the way home, shakuhachi music where the flute had been before.
--Julian
Photo: The rope decoration at Hakusan Shrine in Imaizumi, Ofuna represents the shrine’s guardian deity: a giant centipede.
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