Catch Up Part 2: Photographs
My profuse apologies that this has taken so long in arriving. We are still relying on connecting to what seem to be the weakest wireless networks in existance. It wouldn’t suprise me if I’m connected to a sewing machine right now.
In the first few days here, I took about 100 photographs. Some are good, some are horribly out of focus. I thought I would post my favourites here, and put the rest of the good ones on Flickr. Please forgive the lack of descriptions of the photographs on Flickr, but we are very pressed for time at the moment.
This is a picture of a shrine near the hotel we stayed in during our training course. I can’t make out the content of the majority of the writing, although there’s one that says “GEM” in Romaji.
Just after we arrived (at around 9am) we were fortunate enough to see the daily blessing of the shrine. A man dressed in a light blue kimono walked slowly out of the shrine holding what looked like a stick with tassles on the end. He then waved it in front of the shrine and bowed, then repeated this for both sides of the shrine. I hope I can get back there again at some point to take a video clip of it.
This is a photo of the trees that are inside the Meiji shrine in Harajuku. It’s difficult to express the collosal size of the entire shrine, although I think this picture of the entrance gate suggests it’s no single story cottage in the woods.
I realise that there is no way I can do a photo update without posting a picture of the nightlife of Tokyo. To do this, I shall borrow a photo taken by my volunteer partner in crime Matt. This photo was taken on a night out in Shinjuku.
As I mentioned, the rest of my photos are available on Flickr. I hope to do another update this week detailing what else we’ve been up to.