well, after a good nights sleep i was awake very early as mary was adiment about barking at whatever little fluffy house dogs bark at. it was nice though, as no one else was up and i had a shower then grabbed my camera adn headed upto the temple to take some photos and wake up. was extremely peaceful. the sound of water falling down the hill i watched a spider weave its web and then returned to the house to find kosho bleary eyed but awake and sat and ate my frosties! everything as yoiu would expect is in japanese. even the on/off button on the hot water machine is in japanese, so we literally are not sure about doing anything without supervision. i am starting to realise takaya was right and we are just like babies in this extremely foreign land. it is just extremely lucky that we have such patient and understanding hosts. and id much rather it this way than in some hotel where ecerybody is trained to speak to you in your native tongue. this is about as real as you get. this is mary.
she has a wee nessie toy that kosho had brought her back from scotland.
this is the top half part up the hill to the back of the main temple. its where i sat and woke up. the wood that makes up the floors in these temples is incredibly beautiful. its so old and been walked along so many times that it is entirely smooth adn soft to touch. its really extraordinary.
if you click on the photos you will get a larger image.
2 comments:
i really like that your technique of putting your photos together like the new york ones really lends itself to these fabulous images of a completely different culture 'Mary' looks adorable what breed of little fluffy dog is she how old is she when you say she is a house dog does she not go out. Are you having an actual opening on saturday at the gallery or does it happen in a different way there. keep safe x
she is seven. you should see some of the photos from when she was younger. a little white ball of fluffiness. i think anywhere that there is a straight line which would never normally be seen as a whole works with these kind of images. thanks for the compliment. im not sure what breed she is. its an actual opening although it sounds like there will not be many people there.
on the brighter side it looks like we will be visiting tokyo in style, the talk is of nozomi (bullet train) capsule hotels and manga cafes. should be an experience...if not for everything else then maybe just for the people.
we had proper full blown sushi tonight. dad would be in his element, raw squid, herring row, salmon row, sea urchin, sea bream, eel! fried whole prawns and the greatest of all delights, dancing prawns. thats right folks. its so fresh the decapitated body still moves. sugoi as they say in these parts. great.
love.x
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