Morioka New City Hotel
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Living by the code
... in and had a look around. Clearly, they had a defensive function as well as being homes, with thick walls protecting their owners. The doors and windows had more similarities with gates than doors. Apart from the sections built as fortresses they were very similar to other upscale buildings, as opposed to the commoner's buildings in the rest of town.
By the end of the day we turned south again, ...
Why Japan will Overcome this Crisis
... boys gave me my first lessons in Japanese by teaching me comedic catch phrases from one-time famed Japanese comedian Yoshio Kojima. Following in the boys footsteps, I added the word "oppappi" to my vocabulary to the delight of many Japanese friends. Nowadays they tell me “oppappi” is too old and that I need to get new jokes but I still enjoy the nostalgia of “ocean pacific peace”.
During my stay, the family brought me to ...
Kakunodate, Nyuto Onsen Hot Spring, Zuihoden
... decorations influenced by the Momoyama Culture. They were beautiful, but I was not much impressed, because I knew the mausoleum was rebuilt after it was destroyed in the WWII and it was not designated as a national treasure any more. Date Tadamune's Kansenden and Tsunamune's Zennoden Mausoleums were located close to Zuihoden. Zennoden was rebuilt from imagination, because there were no materials enough to rebuild it.
After that, I headed for Tokyo. That ...
Encounter with a samurai
My day started with reading the congratulations of several Japanese companies and "friendship societies" in the Japanese Times to Austria at the occasion of the Austrian national day today. This seems to be common in Japan - I had already seen this for some other country (can't remember which) but still found this quite funny reading over my morning coffee :-) But in line with customs: happy Austria day to all my Austrian readers! After the difficulties yesterday ...
Thoughts on the Train
... I have not yet seen any livestock. One or two rice fields, yes, but not a single cow.
Beth commented on the peculiarity of the natural vegetation on the hillside. Along with the standard broadleaf trees that you would find across temperate Europe are interspersed species that we would only find in garden centers; ornamental specimens for experimental horticulturalists. This mixture of the everyday and the exotic gives a certain unreality to the ...
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