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Nezu
This morning I took the train from Omotesando Station to Nezu with Ken’s brother Tokuya San. It was rush hour – about 8:00 and the train was packed solid. Tokuya, knowing that I wanted to find new places to photograph, introduced me to his friend Kimiko Takahasi. Takahasi San is a wonderfully warm kind…
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Tokyo at Dawn
I got up early this morning determined to find my way to the Imperial Palace before dawn. I took the subway and got there just in time as the sun was rising. Tokyo is such a beautiful city in the early morning light. Here are a few photos including Tokyo at Dawn; the Stone…
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Mt. Asama – Volcano that Erupted Last Week
Last Thursday Ken and I got up early and took the bullet train to Sakudaira near Nagano in Central Japan. When we walked out of the train station, right there in front of us was Mt. Asama, the same volcanic mountain that erupted last week spewing volcanic ash and molten rock high into…
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Yumiko’s Savings Account
Ken has mostly only good things to say about Japan and its culture, and I would agree. However after yesterday’s little incident at the bank, he may have changed his tune just a bit. Let me give you the background which began a few weeks ago. Yumiko, as she did in the U.S.,…
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Yumiko Backlit in Japan
Last weekend Yumiko posed for a few backlighting photographs on the windowsill in our hotel room at the Maza Prince Hotel in Northern Japan. She is a true sport.
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Almost Arrested at the Meiji Shrine
Yesterday I walked to the Meiji Shrine to see if I could get a good photograph of one of the interior hallways within the shrine itself. My photo school assignment this week is “Window Light” and I remembered seeing good “window light” at the Meiji Shrine. I took my camera and my tripod and…
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Lazy Saturday
It’s a lazy Saturday afternoon. Yumiko is at ballet practice. Ken is writing for the Japanese Newsletter and I am here at the computer looking at photos I took today for my class. This week’s assignment is Window Light. I enlisted Yumiko again and she sat for me. Afterwards I took a walk in the rain and found…
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Shirane Mountain Adventure
It’s Wednesday morning here in Tokyo. Ken, Yumiko and I just got back last night from a three day adventure at a ski lodge in the Shirane Mountains in northern Japan. Yumiko spent the better part of all three days learning how to ski. I took a million not so hot photographs of the mountains…
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Adrian Rodzianko
It’s Saturday night about 10:30 and I should be hitting the sack as the three of us Kono’s will be off tomorrow at 5:30 a.m. for a three day skiing trip somewhere in the middle of Japan. Today we had a wonderful guest from the U.S. of A. – Adrian Rodzianko. Adrian is the…
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Arisugawa Park
It’s Friday evening after dinner. We are all back home watching Larry King Live with Maureen Dowd, Paul Begala and DeDe Myers talking about Obama’s inauguration and his first two days in office. Took photos today in Arisugawa Park and then later in the day on the roof of our building. My assignment this…