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Summer at the Kubota Garden, Seattle, Part 2

Posted in Culture, Japan in Seattle, Photography, tagged , on 2014/08/25 | Leave a Comment »

Part 1.

The Kubota Garden is a lovely wild-ish garden built by landscaper Fujitaro Kubota (see part 1 for more information).

Tiny ginko

Tiny ginko


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Summer at the Kubota Garden, Seattle, Part 1

Posted in Culture, Japan in Seattle, Photography, tagged , on 2014/08/21 | 1 Comment »

While the Seattle Japanese Garden is a gorgeous example of a manicured Japanese garden, Kubota Garden, located in the Rainier Beach neighborhood, takes a different view of nature: it’s sprawling and almost wild.

Kubota Garden |The Lobster Dance 15

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Momiji at the Seattle Japanese Garden

Posted in Japan in Seattle, Photography, Sight-seeing, tagged , , , , , , , on 2013/11/13 | 4 Comments »

I got out to the Seattle Japanese Garden to do some 紅葉狩り (momijigari, maple viewing or “maple hunting”) on October 28. Momiji season is a few weeks earlier in Seattle than in Ishikawa. The garden, which is part of the Washington Park Arboretum, was built in the Japanese style in 1960 by Junji Iida.

Seattle Japanese Garden | The Lobster Dance

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Kanazawa no Ame (Kanazawa Rain)

Posted in Architecture, Kanazawa, Photography, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on 2012/11/24 | 3 Comments »

Photos take at Kenrokuen, Kanazawa, 17 Nov. 2012.

Text: selections from「金沢の雨」(Kanazawa no Ame) by Miyuki Kawanaka (川中美幸) (my translation)

東京言葉と 加賀なまり
I love Tokyo words with a Kaga accent

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Iwakuni in Bloom

Posted in Culture, Iwakuni, Photography, Sight-seeing, Travel, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 2011/06/14 | 4 Comments »

Wisteria (fuji, 藤）

Over Golden Week, I headed out to Iwakuni in Yamaguchi-ken. Kintaikyô (錦帯橋), the famous bridge, is nice, but the real star of the show was the flowers in and around Kikkô Kouen (吉香公園) .

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