In response to the weekly photo challenge, Jubilant by The Daily Post.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Jubilant
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Face
This stone statue is Ksitigarbha, Buddhist monk – I have checked with Wikipedia – and 地蔵 in Japan. Exactly saying, it is a mixture of Buddhism and a traditional folk religion. Although today most of people aren’t religious, someone takes care of him everyday, as you see. I have no idea how old it is. At least, his face seems to have got ruined.
In response to the weekly photo challenge, Face by The Daily Post.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Earth
We live on our planet with other everything. One of common and traditional thoughts in Japan is based on an idea that a god (spiritual being) live in any thing, in a stone, tree, mountain, sea, street, house, door and everything here and there. That is, I could say, a myriad of gods.
At least it is true that we LIVE on Earth in Mother Nature.
In response to the weekly photo challenge, Earth by The Daily Post.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Admiration
I was born in a small city so far from any airports that, when I was a school boy, I didn’t imagine exactly what ‘abroad’ mean. Though learning foreign language was a regular program of my school, many of students probably didn’t know the reason and I was not uncommon. Consequently I learned how to read English text as just like a procedure and didn’t how to make a conversation with people from abroad. As time went by, needless to say, I became conscious of my narrow perspectives and some of my colleague are working in other countries. Today, I lives in Yokohama, one of the biggest and typical international port cities in Japan, and thinks time to time how was the first people started their international trading here. The harbor was just a beach of a small fishing village 160 years ago and not it has a huge pier which large passenger boat like QE-II of Cunard Line can dock at.
In response to the weekly photo challenge, Admiration by The Daily Post.
