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Matsumoto Castle with the Northern Alps in the background



Snow Peak in Hakuba and a View from the Ooidetsuri Bridge
 

Motonosumi-shrine in Nagato coast, Yamaguchi.



Senzaki town in Nagato Coast, where Japanese people came from abroad after the war. It is said that Kibi Makibi enshrined Yasaka Shrine here during the Nara period when he returned from China to Japan as an envoy to the Tang Dynasty in 733. Senza Kitchen sells a wide variety of delicious seafood. Restaurant Kiraku also doubles as a guesthouse, and the rooms are beautiful. A waka poem by Hitomaro Kakimoto is hung in the restaurant that serves Kawara Soba in the Hotel Yohkikan.
 
(Senzaki railway station & Yasaka Shrine)

 

 


KAWASAKI RYOKOH retrospective exhibition in Plaza Gallery of Awa Bank, Tokushima.

 
(Grand Prize of Henry Moore for "Wind Swing")

 


Byodoin constructed by Yorimichi Hujiwara in 1052 and Museum of the Tale of Genji in Uji






The 1st. cove of the Takase River facing Kiyamachi street, Kyoto.




Houses with rafter roof in Shirakawa Village












Unno-juku, Post and sericulture town, Hokkoku Kaido




Cluster of traditional fishermen houses, Ine town, Kyoto






Tea Garden, Watsuka Town, Kyoto




Farming of Pacific Bluefin Tuna




Asuka / Nara: Ishibutai





Asuka / Nara: View from Amakashinooka - Yamato 3 mountains




Kinosaki




Ohmi Hachiman: Merchants Old Town




 

1) "Ueda" Basin from "Utsukushigahara" Plateau

 

2) Yokohama

 

3) Flagship "Mikasa" & Admiral "Togo"

 

4) Hakone & Mt. Fuji

 

5) Green Tea Harvest in "Kawane" region

 

6) Kagoshima-city




7) Old Tohkaido Avenue at Kanaya




"Hohrai bridge" crossing the Ohi river at the Edo period

 

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