Early Spring in Kamakura

Some spring scenes in Kamakura.
春の鎌倉の風景♪

We had lunch @ some lovely Vietnamese cafe restaurant which is near Kamakura Station.
ランチは鎌倉駅の近くのベトナム風カフェで頂きました。

I ordered 'Pad Thai', I LOVE Coriander!
私はパッタイを頼みました。パクチー大好き♪　　　

Plum in full bloom.
梅は満開。

A Kamakura Walking Video.
鎌倉散策ビデオ。

Colorful Ksitigarbhas.
色彩豊かなお地蔵さん。

I wanted to visit here called Kiridoushi.
切通、ここにずっと来てみたかったのだ。

Comments

~Chow Wo Man~ said…

I've just been surfing looking for fellow Murakami fans and found you. I'm a friendly guy, mellow by nature and have gotten into Asian art lately. Mostly WOng Kar-Wai and Chinese movies but some Japanese movies too. I watched Chushingura last night and wondered... well why did they have to all die in the end? I mean they did their own thing by revenging their lord, why not just ride off into the sunset?

I enjoyed your postings here. Looking for friends all over the world.

I just started this blogger but have had my own web pages for about 12 years now.

Take care.

Mark

23 March 2008 at 07:32

~Chow Wo Man~ said…

Neco,

Thanks for posting on my newly started blog. I will learn from your pictures and post original size so when people click on them they are bigger and more detailed.

I am starved for reading. I am reading Yasunari Kawabata but he really is before my time. Of all the Japanese authors you listed who would you recommend for someone like me who has read and reread Murakami's books and is looking for someone else to read. I have to have a good book to read!

Mark

PS your food looks yummy too.

25 March 2008 at 08:57

Hiking @ Mt. Fuji

Pictures of Mt. Fuji where one of spiritual places in Japan. You can drive to halfway up the mountain. It's about two hours hiking course from there. Many people like to try climbing up Mt. Fuji. It's a popular way that people spend a night at a co ttage and start around 2am to see sun rise at the top, however I have never tried it. R einforcement work is under way as mountain slope is sliding down. I didn't make any effort, instead I just felt autumn there. It was a clear day after rainy days that took off orange osmanthus petals. Fujisan with rainbow Rain cleanses us and brings next season.

Blackout Threatened

It's very cold day. The consumption of electricity has been increasing due to heating. There's rolling blackouts due to electricity shortages caused from Fukushima nuclear power plant accident. TEPCO, Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc., divided Kanto region into five groups and have been carrying out stop electric power for a few hours in order. Plan was not informed in advance, which gave people confusion. During blackout, traffic light is out of service, there was a fatal traffic accident due to that. My friend took a photo of drinking scene under candlelight At the office, there was an emergency company broadcast at 4:30 pm today. They said 'There might be unpredictable huge blackouts tonight due to lack of supply of electricity according to METI. There will be chance of confusion of transportation therefore go home immediately'. Trains in Tokyo running every few minutes so accurately, and if there's any unusual things such as blackout, it will be a serious con...

Lost in Translation

There are frequent questions for foreigners who visit in Japan such as 'Can you use chopsticks?' or 'Do you eat Natto ?'. And relatively one of the latest might be 'Have you ever watched Lost in Translation?'. And interesting thing is that people who are familiar with Japan well or live in this country for a long time didn't really like that movie. (Including me) I was asked by my friend why, I replied that Sofia Coppola emphasized strange things of Japanese a little bit too much. The Japanese hooker didn't have to be that old woman with such degrading English. The director must have intended it to compare to the heroine who was young and a white beautiful girl. By the way, I and my other friend went to the bar at Park Hyatto in Shinjyku to experience Lost In Translation in last January. The hotel was splendid. All these three picture were being taken by her camera.

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