10.1 Tokyo before Setsubun 2015

I like Okinawa, Ishigaki, Yonaguni...
I like Tokyo.
Enjoy Japan.











Winter it is also great. This year I enjoyed very much the contrast of nude trees confronted with façades, advertisements, sky.

Clean air, colourful Shinjuku.

White crossing.

Blue and Orange.

Cellular phone ad reminding Spain.








My country always "called" me.

So that ad works for me.

Corner nude tree.

Ueno Gallery exhibition of chinese painter.

Ueno birds "breeder/catcher".

Lotus stems in winter 1.

Purple head.

Lotus stems in winter 2.

More winter trees :

CIVILIZATION : Volunteers cleaning the street on sunday.

Omotesando shop. Clean atmosphere.

Postneoclassic. Three.

Top of Prudential tower in Akasaka.

Hie shrine.
Thanks to Ken san.

Hie shrine torii.

Winter Tree  in Akasaka.

Night lights in Shinjuku.

NEXT : 10.2  Tokyo / Setsubun 2015

1.10 / Naminoue

Naminoue is the most famous shrine in Naha.
It is near the city beach within the same name.

During the first week of the year many people goes there to pray.

To send traditional arrows and prayers.

You read your destiny on a holy piece of paper and you tie.
Requesting the best wishes.
I did mine too, the one on the right side.

After that, there are numerous stalls to enjoy food and plays.

Beside Naminoue is Shiseibyo.
A Confucian temple. It served for centuries as a major center of Chinese learning for the Ryukyu Kingdom.

    Naminoue, Pray and Festival, (clip)



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