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stone lantern, Ohara (1999)

"Swept Away"
in Santa Monica
OCTOBER 14, 2002

"Pacific Overtures"
in Tokyo
OCTOBER 16, 2002

Shrines of Nikko
OCTOBER 17, 2002

Cranes for Peace
in Hiroshima
OCTOBER 20, 2002

All in the Details
OCTOBER 24, 2002

 

 


 

 

All in the Details

The key to appreciating Japanese culture has always seemed to me to lie in paying attention to the little things, the details, all those small bits and pieces that together comprise the essence of contemporary everyday life.

So here are a few of those "bits and pieces" as I have recorded them on my handy little digital camera over the past two weeks.

I have organized them into several categories of associated meanings and added comments here and there describing something about what the images portray in those cases where it otherwise might be unclear.

Look closely and you might well see Japan "up close and personal."

CLICK ON ANY OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS BELOW TO CONTIUE

TSUKUBA
stone water basins

... IN THE GARDEN
Mt. Fuji in green, Ohara, Kyoto (2002)

COMPOSITIONS IN SPACE
bamboo blinds and rain shutters, Shisendo, Kyoto (2002)

TWO SMALL SHINTO SHRINES

Autumn blossoms, Lake Chuzenji (2002)

TEXTURES
shade plantings, Shisendo, Kyoto (2002)

Click on any of the report titles in the column 
at the left to continue.
This report, detailing on-site observations made in Japan between October 14, 2002 and October 24, 2002, has been prepared by Lee A. Makela (l.makela@csuohio.edu) for the use of interested friends, family and students at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, especially those who enrolled in HIS 372/572, The History of Early Modern Japan and HIS 373/573, Contemporary Japan in Historical Perspective, during the Fall Semester of the 2002 - 2003 Academic Year; please contact Dr. Makela with any comments.