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Awaji Island is a surprising place, even after 10,000 years of habitation. |
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Awaji Island, Japan |
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Awaji Life
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I buy my vegetables and flowers from Tanaka-ya, a neighborhood store. I select my vegetables and fruit from individual baskets bearing the name and sometimes photo of the farmer who grew it. This lovely woman works at the store, and this is her effigy of the farm women. Check out the ears and fluffy stole. December 30, 2005. Sumoto. |
Attack of the plastic animals...agghh! It was horrible...I can't begin to describe it--the plastic carnage, the loss of plastic life. January 1, 2006. Izanagi Jingu. |
Walid, this is for you. A view of the town of Sumoto from the highest surveillance point. Sumoto castle overlooks the harbor and town. The town has always been a fishing port. Early maps from 700 A.D. show the same basic arrangement. There is not a lot more outside the frame of this picture, yet it is the largest urban area on Awaji. I live in an apartment a bit off to the left. |
So far I have escaped from Awaji once, in mid-October, to visit Kyoto when my friend from UC Boulder was visiting her home. We are in Kano-jinja, her family's property, and on our way to Kiyomizuderazaki. |
In an ancient, dilapidated Buddhist shrine and burial area of the equally old farming village of Yagi Yahara, the suisen blooms in the dead of winter. The narcissus truly are extra luscious in Awaji. |
Japanese News of the Weird |
Bicycles, other items thrown from overpass SHIZUOKA--Two bicycles, a unicycle, concrete blocks, a fire extinguisher, flower pots and other items where thrown from an overpass one after another onto National Highway Route 1, about 1 a.m. Monday. The overpass has a 2-meter-high fence. At the scene where the perpetrator is believed to have flung the articles, an umbrella, football and a flag for traffic safety campaign were found.--Daily Yomiuri, sometime in Ocober, 2005. |
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