Roger's Pictures
19 & 21 April 2017
Roger goes to the museum, we both visit Yasaka
Jinja, and the fair at Toji Temple.
 Museum |
 Urban landscape |
 Video screens (clever design) |
 Video screens |
 Gion |
 Bus stop |
 Main gate to Yasaka Jinja |
 Festival food |
 Evening light in small shrine |
 Last light on the stage |
 Lights around the stage |
 Evening light on shrine building |
 Banners for the Beauty Goddess Shrine |
 Fountain |
 Double cherry blossoms in Maruyama Park |
 Double cherry blossoms in Maruyama Park |
 Setting sun |
 Evening sky |
 Stone bridge |
 Double cherry blossoms in Maruyama Park |
 Double cherry blossoms in Maruyama Park |
 A side street at Yasaka Jinja |
 Side of shrine building |
 The stage |
 Costumed tourists |
 Costumed tourists |
 Festival stalls |
 SMall shrine |
 Shades of red |
 Stone replica of fesitval float |
 Small shrine |
 Shijo Dori at night |
 Back alley |
 Restaurant entrance |
 Grilled mochi at Toji Shrine sale |
 Dried persimmonsi at Toji Shrine sale |
 Grilled fish at Toji Shrine sale |
 Buddhist monk burning prayer sticks in goma fire ritual |
 Fresh salmon |
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 Dried fish |
 Grey heron |
 FIsh are just too big! |
 Flowering tree |
 Handmade crafts for sale |
 Camellia |
 Camellia |
 Kikumomo -- literally chrysanthemum plum, botanical name: prunus persica stellata |
 Wisteria |
 Yamabuki - Kerria japonica |
 Cherry blossom viewing by canal |
 Painting the stone wall |
 Being silly... |