Diary: New Year Shrine Visit, 2023
When we went to Munetada shrine during New Year festivities 2023, I purchased three prayer tiles as I have a […]
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Field Notes: Kyoto’s Gingaku-ji (6 instax-views)
Japan is a land of photographers and places to be photographed. Truly, there’s an endless variety of both the photographers (and of course their equipments) and the places to be photographed. This is all to say that you will see much finer photos of the Ginkaku-ji aka “silver pavilion” which, isn’t really very silver unlike it’s cousin the “golden pavilion” which is very gold.
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#DRO420 / 3rd Anniversary: Wedding outfit flashback/recap
How many outfits can you wear for one wedding celebration? It turns out, a lot (but never enough!) Let’s briefly
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Kinfolk + Pals
Ichiro: 1 Month / 23.7.2020 (shrine, grave and various annotations)
July 23, 2020 Ichiro Stanley Thorvald Olson hit the one month mark since birth. For the record: born June 23,
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Personal Musings
Diary: Stroll to Grandpa Ichiro’s ohaka juuust before…
{Catching up with…} evidence of a stroll on June 21st as we were waiting for baby Ichiro to make his
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Personal Musings
Diary: 40+ years of projects into a “kura” grain barn
Big day (Thursday March 19) here at Tsuchida cottage as my life archives completes a long journey by a ship
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Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Diary: Days go by – filled (mostly) with coffee, food and and sundry tasks
You could be forgiven for thinking that my life involves entirely eating delicious food and drinking fantastic coffee as you
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Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Diary: Starting off 2020 with Coffee and Classes etc.
So it goes, the festive season passes yet calendar stays busy with the usual sorts of things. Yesterday included returning
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Personal Musings
Diary: New Year’s Day Reiwa 2, Shrine Visit
Off to the shrine on New Year’s morning, in this case to a smallish local shrine called 天津神社北側参道 / Achi
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Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Diary: Autumn Miscellany / coffee, ramen, sandwiches, Godzilla, peach tree, ikebana…
While dispatches and re-caps of various outings and events exist elsewhere in this archive, life is so wonderful right now
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Portraits of the Artiste
Portrait: Torii at Amatsu Jinja (天津神社北側参道), Tsuchida
Just your pal Dave taking a rock around the neighbourhood. Stopping for sit by a mighty stone/concrete torii gate at
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Japan Life/Travel, Notes to Future Self
Japanese Imperial Enthronement: primer / musings
Japanese Imperial Enthronement Primer < Emperor Naruhito (era name: Reiwa) formally took the position May 1st in a brief ceremony
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Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Diary: Okayama Regular Life, spring-ish / ramen, friends, singing, coffees, shrine, farm, graves etc.
After all the friends came and went from the wedding festivities in April (including a hospital stay by one intrepid
Collections of Artifacts
Goat Farm Party 35mm Film photos, vol. 2 / Dave + Ryoko 4-21 Kekkon-shiki
Guests were also encouraged to take a snap with 1 of 3 instant camera to stick into a guestbook along
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Personal Musings
Munetada Shinto Shrine Primer / Dave + Ryoko 4-20 Kekkon-shiki
While me and Ryoko’s wedding will be a litttlllle bit unique, there are some very traditional aspects to our 3-day
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Collections of Artifacts
Shinto Wedding Vow / Dave + Ryoko 4-20 Kekkon-shiki
Shinto wedding vow, Read by Dave and Ryoko in Unison at Munetade Jinjya (shrine), April 20, 2019 Phoneticized from Japanese
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