Posts Tagged ‘sakura’
After six years of living in Japan I’ve gotten on an airplane and flown back to live in the States, where I’ll be living for at least one year. My last few weeks in Japan were spent meeting up with all of the friends who have helped to make my time in Japan so wonderful, […]
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blossom blizzard
Photo information, by order of appearance, including camera, lens, and film type: 1) Voigtlander Bessa-L, 15mm Heliar, uncertain film type. 2) Voigtlander Bessa R2A, 35mm Ultron, Kodak T-Max 400. 3) Voigtlander Bessa-T, 50mm Nokton, Fujifilm Provia 100. 4) LOMO LC-A+, Fujifilm Natura 1600. 5) Voigtlander Bessa R2A, 75mm Color-Heliar, unknown film. 6) Voigtlander Bessa R2A, […]
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Night sakura
One of the greatest pleasures of cherry blossom season is wandering around at night and finding the bunches and clusters of blossoms illuminated by artificial light. Although there are many places where this is done on purpose and the trees are spotlit and gorgeous, in other places it’s just the streetlights and fluorescents that do […]
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Tags: お花見, blossom viewing, cherry blossoms, cherry trees, night, ohanami, osaka university, photography, sakura, 夜, 大阪大学, 桜
Korakuen ohanami
Sometime in April (I can’t quite remember the date now) I took the train down to Okayama to meet my friend Hiromi for a stroll through Korakuen, which is rated as one of Japan’s top three stroll gardens. The last time I was there, with my friend Lea, it was pouring down rain and we […]
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Okayamajo ohanami
After strolling through Korakuen, Hiromi and I walked up to Okayamajo, which was quite a different place in blossom than it was in the driving rain which Lea and I had had to walk through last time I visited the castle. Since Hiromi and I were busy concentrating on the cherry blossoms, I didn’t end […]
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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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