Japan Photos 2025
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Purple stuff is shisho no ha (when still wet); after drying and then crumbled/powdered, shiso no ko (shiso ko?).
Short walk this morning, 5k steps, drenched by the time I got back. It started off cloudy (nice), but then cleared off after ~20min. First two shots from the walk, neither very interesting, third is this month's less colorful arrangement at a jinja that I've posted before.
Here it is on google maps, which should be enough info. I've shot and posted pics before of the other side-- the entrance/front of it, but this is the first time I've tried the back (and the narrow road that it fronts on heads back away from the river into Teramachi, a zillion temples, along with the present site of Ninja -tera). My shot is from across the river, and I went up an open/external staircase to get up higher, to the same level/elevation. Swing that view to the left to look across the river. The place could be in a Ghibli movie.
Too bad about that one pole in the way. The pole itself could be edited out, but on the original the lines from the pole running both ways the whole width of the building (and also to either side) would be hard, and then there also are reflections of the wires in some of the windows, too (mixd with other reflections of stuff from the other side of the river (like where I'm shooting from).
Since I went up the stairs, my shot is trivially better than most
, which show an upwards angle from street level.The address there is 蛤町 (hamaguri-), = clam, supposedly descriptive of the area. The old 北国街道 didn't go down the street that this place fronts on, but passed by a stone's throw away.
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Any fish in that river?
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Yes, ayu (sweetfish). They migrate upstream to spawn. According to a recent documentary, there is an increasing number of non-indigenous species, too.
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Yeah those fish are so delicious we have them in Hiroshima too and right now it's . It's that season but I think the actually catching them is been over for a little while but I have to check on that the bridge that is real famous in Hiroshima that's where a lot of the fish are being caught.
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It's hot today.
