This was an interesting, if not a little unsettling, assemblage of the heads of local family shrine statues. A fascinating feature of rural Japan is that families have lived in the area, and maintained their family plot of land for dozens of generations. Since Shinto/Buddhist custom requires the cremation of the body after death, most families erect a statue/tombstone/small shrine on their plot of land to protect the ashes/spirit of the dearly departed. With this tradition continued for hundreds of years, some of the statues fall into disrepair and others have histories that have been lost over time. It's interesting to think about what different eras each of these recovered statuary heads had been recovered from.
An off-and-on photojournalist elaborates upon some of the crazier photos he'd taken in places like Kosovo, Egypt, Japan and North Korea.
11/18/2005
お遍路（志度）２００５年 026
このお寺が８６番だった。お遍路がここで始まった。
This is the 86th temple,
where todays Ohenro pilgrammage begins.
This is the 86th temple,
where todays Ohenro pilgrammage begins.
お遍路（志度）２００５年 022
先週はお遍路に参加しに行った。今住んでいる場所が四国。四国の有名な事は八十八箇所のお遍路だ。今回は残念ながら、すべてを走ってないんだが、８６番のお寺から８８番まで行くのが２６キロかかった。朝の八時頃は８６番から出発して（財田からの出発は朝の六時半だったが、志度までは車で行った）ずっと歩いて、８８に着くのが夕方の五時半くらいだった。
今は写真は途中で、海の前でこの木に作られた人形を見つけた。
今は写真は途中で、海の前でこの木に作られた人形を見つけた。
11/02/2005
山の会１愛媛３
頂上二つ目：石土山
三つ目の頂上の名前が面白かったと思う。
隣に「男山」と「女山」がありました。
どういう風に山の性別が決めれるか解らないが、
誰かが知ってたら教えてね。
(なんとかの部分みたいな形で決める事ではないっすよね？）
The second peak: `earth stone mountain`
I thought the name of the 3rd peak was interesting. It was simply `male mountain,` and had a neighboring `female mountain` to accompany it. I'm not sure exactly how they determine the gender of mountains, but if you have any ideas feel free to let me know. (It doesn`t have anything to do with the mountain's shape resembling anatomical features I trust...)
三つ目の頂上の名前が面白かったと思う。
隣に「男山」と「女山」がありました。
どういう風に山の性別が決めれるか解らないが、
誰かが知ってたら教えてね。
(なんとかの部分みたいな形で決める事ではないっすよね？）
The second peak: `earth stone mountain`
I thought the name of the 3rd peak was interesting. It was simply `male mountain,` and had a neighboring `female mountain` to accompany it. I'm not sure exactly how they determine the gender of mountains, but if you have any ideas feel free to let me know. (It doesn`t have anything to do with the mountain's shape resembling anatomical features I trust...)
山の会-愛媛2
Just continuing the previous entry~
This is a shot of the Zentsuji mountain climbing club that I've joined. There wasn't technically a path the follow, but we did find a pin-point trail from some previous travellers and followed that through the mountains. Since it was a several kilometer range that we covered, We managed to hit three distinct mountain peaks over the course of... 4:45am left Saita, 5:30am arrived in Zentsuji, 9:00 arrived in Kochi and started climbing (a road took us halfway up the first mountain) roughly noonish - hit the first peak and had lunch, 5:00 made it out to another parking spot on the other side of the range. 7:00 made it back to Zentsuji. :D
This is a shot of the Zentsuji mountain climbing club that I've joined. There wasn't technically a path the follow, but we did find a pin-point trail from some previous travellers and followed that through the mountains. Since it was a several kilometer range that we covered, We managed to hit three distinct mountain peaks over the course of... 4:45am left Saita, 5:30am arrived in Zentsuji, 9:00 arrived in Kochi and started climbing (a road took us halfway up the first mountain) roughly noonish - hit the first peak and had lunch, 5:00 made it out to another parking spot on the other side of the range. 7:00 made it back to Zentsuji. :D
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