Bring the supernatural into your home! Shintõ shrines for the home at Unidy hardware store.
The absolutely filthy, smelly, Shibuta river, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa prefecture.
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Yamanakako, Yamanashi prefecture.
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Clouds over the rice fields.
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Mount Fuji.
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Fudõ Myõ-õ the immovable Buddhist God.
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Farms of Hiratsuka, Kanagawa prefecture.
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Mountain stream.
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Bamboo fence in the teppo gaki (musket rifle) style.
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It is claimed that this mound is the very same mound that the Shõgun Tokugawa Ieyasu used to sit on after each of his hunting trips here. The entire park was once the sight of the Tokugawa family hunting and falconing grounds.
Like so many “historical” sites in Japan, the stories behind it are most certainly fictional. It was more than likely created after the 1950’s to attract visitors.
Sõgõ Park, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa prefecture.
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Pekochan, the Fujiya chocolates mascot.
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Kannon bosatsu by the road side.
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The Hiratsuka Fire Department in training. Japanese firemen undergo training on a very regular basis, they can be seen climbing, tying knots, and abseiling every morning.
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Gingko leaf.
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Discarded by the road.
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