Faces of Japan (1984,
2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2024)
Photos of 1984:
Street
procession in Kyushu.
Photos of 2016:
At the Genchi
well in the city of Matsumoto. (Matsumoto, at the foot of the Japanese Alps,
has many such wells providing excellent fresh water. Local and non-local people
get their drinking water from these wells.)
At the Yohashira shrine in Matsumoto.
Women in the picturesque old village of
Narai in the Kiso valley.
Artists inspired by the traditional houses of Narai.
Contrasts between tradition and ″modernity″
in Osaka.
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Evening crowds in the Dotonbori street,
in Osaka.
Crowded day in Nara.
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Monks in the Kongobuji temple, in
Koyasan.
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Pilgrims in the Kumano Hongu Taisha
shrine, in Hongu (Kii peninsula).
People cooking eggs and sweet potatoes
in the Yuzutsu basin (hot spring), in the village of Yunomine Onsen near Hongu.
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In the Kumano Hayatama Taisha shrine in
Shingu (Kii peninsula).
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In Nachi, one of the
few remaining places in Japan that survived the separation of Shinto and
Buddhism during the Meiji Restoration. Left: In the Kumano Nachi Taisha shrine
(Shinto). Right: At the Nachisan Seiganto-ji temple (Buddhist).
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Fishermen repairing their nets in Kii
Katsura.
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In the fish market of
Kii-Katsura.
Lonely bicyclist on a sunny morning in
Kii-Katsura.
Photos of 2017:
Pilgrims at the Hohei-den shrine in
Hiko-san (north of Kyushu).
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In the Dazaifu Tenmangu shrine, in
Dazaifu (suburb of Fukuoka).
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Photos of 2018:
Two puppeteers
with their puppets in a traditional Joruri puppet theater in Tolushima
(Shikoku).
Awa Dance in Tokushima.
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Pilgrims at
some of the 88 temples of the Shikoku Henro (pilgrimage).
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Fisherman in
the small port of Mugu (Takushima prefecture, Shikoku)
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Man creating
figurines out of bamboo in Wakimachi (Udatsu street).
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In the Dogo
Onsen (hot springs) area in Matsuyama: foot bath (ashiyu) and couple strolling
in their yukatas.
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People in a
local train downtown Matsuyama.
Shop in
Uchiko (Ehime prefecture, Shikoku).
Otomouma-no-Hashirikomi (horse racing
festival) in Kikuma, Ehime prefecture, Shikoku.
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Photos of 2019:
Shinto priest performing exorcism and purification
rituals for a new car in the Taikodani Inari shrine in Tsuwano.
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Master Kagura mask maker Katsuro Kakita
in Hamada.
Musicians at a Kagura dance performance
in Hamada.
Kagura dancers/actors during the
performance in Hamada.
Kagura dancers/actors at the end of the
performance.
Man praying in front of a giant turtle
statue in the cemetery of the Gessho-ji temple in Matsue.
Drawing artist behind a window in
Kurayoshi.
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Bicyclist in front of an old sake
brewery in Kurayoshi.
At a ceremony combining Buddhist and
Shinto rituals in the prayer hall of Sanbutsuji at the foot of Mt. Mitoku.
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Mobile food stalls, called yatai, near
Tenjin station in Fukuoka.
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Drawing artists on the edge of a canal
in Yanagawa (Kuyshu).
Boatmen on canals in Yanagawa.
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Photos of 2024:
Priests bringing food to the kami of
Okudaira-jinja, a Shinto shrine next to the castle of Nakatsu, Oita Prefecture,
northern Kyushu.
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Shinto priest in another shrine near the castle of
Nakatsu, northern Kyushu.
Monk in Daiho-ji,
a Buddhist temple
of the Nichiren sect, Nakatsu, northern Kyushu.
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Seafood sellers at the morning market,
Yobuko, Saga Prefecture, Kyushu.
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