Along our shinkonryoko (honeymoon) travel, there were many chances to sign guestbooks, write notes for folks, as well as fill our booklets with inky stamps to commemorate being somewhere. As it goes, here are a few mediocre snapshots of hastily scribbled words for archival purposes.
signed in a book for Hongo-sensei – remixed from my “post box poem” at Mac Kobayashi’s goat farmnote quite sure where or what the context is but it’s from the heart – quite literallywritten in the guestbook for Hanayume Noren (bridal curtain?) historic scenic traina stamp available for stamping (obv) aboard the Hanayume Noren scenic trainanother view of the same, ergo: written in the guestbook for Hanayume Noren (bridal curtain?) historic scenic trainwriting a haiku at the home of haiku master Kobayashi Issa alongside long lost pal Steve Gruett, in his honourthis scrapbook style is readily available at stationery stores around Japan,…in this case, the books displayed artifacts and articles related to the Mawaki Ruins Jomon Museum in Notodoesn’t *quite* fit with the others, but this is letterhead from one of the many hotels we stayed at along the way…guestbook in the fantastic “Shinse Kinenkan Museum” museum in Kanazawa, basically an old apothecary turned into exhibit of both pharmacy but also all sorts of other crafts and art
More artifacts may be added to this post later as sorting and curating continues. Carry on.
Blurb: On our meandering adventure of a honeymoon in May-June 2019, we travelled by many means of convenience including a wide variety of trains, rental cars, occasional coach buses and what not. See the whole Shinkonryoko Scrapbook for a mixed-media ephemera overview and a list of places visited for the curious.
