Archive for April, 2006
Osaka Daigaku dance club
The Osaka University street dance club is always ready for a party.
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Tags: afro wigs, club, crazy costumes, osaka university, street dance, 大阪大学
Night comets
Here are two photographs of the cherry blossoms at Machikaneyama campus at night. I had to take quite a few to get these — the wind was blowing and it was difficult to keep my hand from moving, so many of the shots came out blurry. But these two came out just fine. I think […]
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Tags: お花見, cherry blossom season, cherry blossoms, comets, night, osaka university, sakura, 大阪大学, 桜
Osaka Daigaku Ohanami
Osaka University’s Machikaneyama Campus, where I teach, is populated with cherry trees. The trees blossom just before the term begins and students hold blossom-viewing parties under the trees. The Osaka University Graduate School of Language and Culture also holds an annual ohanami party under a tree that is the subject of at least two of […]
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Tags: お花見, cherry blossom season, cherry blossoms, osaka university, party, sakura, 大阪大学, 桜
A day in Minoh with Yumiko
Of course I’m about three weeks behind on my entries here at troutfactory, but that’s what happens when a new semester begins. In any case, this entry will be the first in a string of entries related to ohanami (blossom-viewing) season. During the beginning of ohanami in Osaka, I took the train up to Minoh […]
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Tags: architecture, お花見, もんちゃんせんべい, Benzaiten, Buddhism, Buddhist, butterflies, cherry blossoms, construction, 猿, 箕面, 箕面公園, doggy, insect house, insect museum, Minoh, Minoo, monkeys, ohanami, onsen ryokan, robot grasshopper, Ryuanji, sakura, temple, 寺, 弁財天, 弁才天, 昆虫館, 桜, 滝安寺
Sakura tunnel
Here’s a small gallery of photographs taken in Minoh along a beautiful, sakura-lined street that Yumiko took me to see. The trees were in full blossom and the tunnel effect of the branches overhanging the road produced a sense of brilliant snow environment. These trees are so old that many of them are held up […]
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Tags: お花見, cherry blossoms, 箕面, 箕面市, Minoh, Minoo, ohanami, Osaka, sakura, 大阪, 桜
The day after Tomo’s wedding I checked out of the Shinagawa Prince and down to Shinegawa Station where I met Kobachan and Tarokun, both former members of the Osaka Daigaku photo club. They live in Tokyo now where Kobachan works as an X-ray technician and Tarokun works as a network administrator. More importantly, they are […]
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Tags: Ando Tadao, animation, Aoyama, art, ワタリウム美術館, contemporary art, 青山, 鷹野隆大, In My Room, Ito Zon, Nadiff, Prada, Ryoko Aoki, Ryudai Takano, Tadao Ando, Tokyo, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Watarium, 安藤 忠雄, 東京, 伊藤 存
