Hamaorisai Festival is held annually at Nishihama Beach in Chigasaki City. This is a summer festival where people take the mikoshi, or portable Shinto shrine, into the sea to please the god living in it. This year’s festival was held on the 20th of July, which is also the Umi-no-Hi (or the Ocean Day). The [...]
Tagged: chigasaki, Festival, hamaorisai, Japan, mikoshi, ocean, sea, shrine, tradition, water
This is what most people don’t know about Japan. Homelessness was largely unknown in Japan until the economic bubble burst in the early 1990s and unemployment began to rise. – BBC
Tagged: Feature, homeless, Japan, photojournalism, social problem, tokyo
Tanabata was originally about a Chinese love story of a princess and a cowherd being separated by the king. Traditionally in present-day Japan, people celebrate Tanabata by writing their wishes on colorful, small strips of paper called tanzaku…
Categories: Festival, Japan, Photowalk
Tagged: colorful, Festival, hiratsuka, Japan, kanagawa, Photography, Photowalk, tanabata
This is the second part of the Midnight Shooting: Roppongi to Shibuya blog entry. We started our walk around 1:00AM from Roppongi, and reached Shibuya at nearly 3:00AM. Below are images that you will likely be seeing in an early Saturday morning in Shibuya. This guy welcome us right at the foot of the pedestrian [...]
Tagged: b&w, Japan, Photography, Photowalk, shibuya, station, tokyo
Last Friday (06/26), I went to SuperDeluxe in Roppongi to see the Naked Tokyo Photo Exhibition organized by some of my Flickr friends. I can say it was a great event showing some artistic naked photos. I would like to join next year. :-) After stopping by the exhibition, I, with my friends Mika and [...]
Tagged: Japan, kalandrakas, Photography, Photowalk, roppongi, shibuya
