Welcome back to everyone's favorite random look at Japan, Random Japan. Today is even more random than usual, a collection of shots taken as I shuttle my kids around town on our bicycle. Now there's a title for a photo collection!
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Random Japan
If you look closely in the center of the image, you can see a head through the overgrown yard. It is a navel captain, presumably someone famous although I can't see any name or recognize the face. Yamamoto, perhaps. Except this guy has a beard calling to mind a 19th century naval captain. An odd thing to see at any house, but especially an abandoned one. I wonder what other oddities are awaiting to discover in this yard and house.
A guest appearance! That is my youngest son's foot. He was interested in the old rusted guardrail so I stopped and let him have a look. Then I decided he was on to something—it is an interesting rail. Out the camera comes!
This is from a temple I stumbled onto. Perhaps I'll share more photos of temple things in a future post, but for now, this old seesaw that has seen better days. I wonder if any kids actually come in here to use the old thing.
Nothing special here—just a parking space. I suppose it might be kind of curious to some people that they use the roman letter A instead of a Japanese character. The roman alphabet is one of the 4 alphabets the Japanese use, though, so it's not as surprising to find as you may think.
That's all, folks. Do any of these jump out at you? Let me know in the comments. Join us next time for another Random Japan. Same random time, same random channel. See you then!
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 | David LaSpina is an American photographer lost in Japan, trying to capture the beauty of this country one photo at a time. |