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Weekly Photo Challenge: Letters

201404-044This old store seems to be abandoned as a business but maintained at a minimum. To read letters, it was a cigarette shop or a fuel store. A kind of grocery store where rice, alcoholic beverages and heating oil were sold was popular in Japan, at least, more than 30 years ago. 

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The name-board was repainted again and again and some letters are looked like a picture by multiple exposure. You could see yellow and black letters having similar shapes.

A Blue part on the left side of the picture would be a counter or showcase of cigarettes. Its graphics has a old style font both on Japanese letters and English letters.

You may find red checker board design at the lower part. It was like a mosaic and, probably, was a modern design. of course, I don’t know a blue part was painted with intention referring red checkers.

Though it is a bit difficult to explain some old letters, perhaps you could find traditional characters which is not used now.

201404-045This is a part of Weekly Photo Challenge by Daily Post.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: On Top

201404-027A view on top of Pompidou Centre, Centre national d’art et de culture Georges-Pompidou in French, was like that. The picture was shot from an external staircase to the top floor where it is famous place as a scenic overlook. 

This is a part of Weekly Photo Challenge by Daily Post.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Monument

201404-022The monument was built for a memory of the Nagano Olympic Games 1998. Interestingly this statue, which seems to be a ski jumper, is put in front of the skating rink. Something strange happened in 16 years? Addition to this, someone would left his bamboo broom there as you see. Nobody’s interested in a past Olympic Games? Probably it is because many of facilities for the games are still used commonly.

You can see the monument of ski jump as a real one.

201404-020and if you prefer downhill, you can see also,

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This is a part of Weekly Photo Challenge by Daily Post.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold

201404-013After one week flowering of cherry blossom, shower of snowy pink petals tells us coming green days in Yokohama. A short flowering time emphasizes also passing and coming sparkling days of a school term. Every sakura, the flower, knows the threshold of green season. 

201404-017Probably, it would be the last day to enjoy a picnic under the sakura-trees this year. A weather news says it will be a rainy day tomorrow,

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and the rain drops would color everything as green.

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This is a part of Weekly Photo Challenge by Daily Post.

 
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