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September 2020 Trip – Touring Kyoto and “Sanbi”

kazu / 2020-12-30 / 0 Comment

On September 19, 2020, in the midst of the raging Corona pandemic my wife and I set out on a trip my wife had made reservations for a few months earlier. After ...

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A Yukata Stroll around Kawagoe

H Y / 2020-08-27 / 0 Comment

Kawagoe City in Saitama Prefecture is also called “Koedo” or “little Edo” from its resemblance to Edo as Tokyo was known as before the Meiji period. The streets...

25th Fuku-Kuru Manekineko Festival
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Ise Shrine & 25th Maneki-neko Festival – 2/2

kazu / 2019-10-13

On September 29th, from 9:29 in the morning, it will be the day when 929 Kicchou Shofuku Bells (auspicious good luck charm bell) that received purification by t...

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Ise Shrine & 25th Maneki-neko Festival – 1/2

kazu / 2019-10-12

On September 28th (Saturday) and 29th (Sunday), I visited the Maneki-Neko Festival (Beckoning Cat and Lucky Cat Festival) held in Ise City, Mie Prefecture, wher...

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Short trip to Oku-Noto, Ishikawa: Heike family descendants & Jizo

kazu / 2018-12-12

This autumn, my wife and daughter made a trip around Oku-noto, Ishikawa Prefecture. Until a few decades ago, Oku-Noto was a remote and somewhat mysterious area ...

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On a sunny Autumn day – 1

kazu / 2016-06-10

On a sunny Autumn day, I made an impromptu visit to Gotokuji (豪徳寺) which is said to be the Birthplace of Manekineko (beckoning cat). During the Edo era, there w...

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