Land Of The Rising Son
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Walk With Me

Walk With Me

More often than not, I think the neighborhood I live in is sublime.

I walked around my neighborhood with my new found friends the other day and one of them turned to me and said “you have such a opulent walking course” and I had to agree.

Join me on a small walkabout around my neighborhood, so one can also experience to joy of a rural Japan neighborhood.

Amaterasu Oomikami shinning her life on us.
天照大御神様の輝きが私たちを照らす

Sun blazing high in a clear sky above a wooded ridge, rays flaring across the frame

Working in tandem with the Japanese government, specifically after the great Tohoku disaster to store her precious energy
特に東日本大震災以降、天照大御神様に日本政府が協力して、彼女の貴重なエネルギーを蓄えるために働く

A large array of solar panels angled across a field, with rice paddies, farmhouses and tall cedars beyond

Which one is real, the shadow or the ego
影か自分か？どちらが本物

The photographer's long shadow stretching down a narrow paved lane toward a flooded rice paddy

I appreciate the hard work our farmers put into growing rice for Japan
日本のために米を作って下さる農家の皆さんに心から感謝

Flooded rice paddies reflecting the sky, with a red-and-white transmission tower on the wooded ridge behind

Lot's of fertile land in Japan
日本の肥沃な大地

A patchwork of flooded and freshly tilled paddies below a densely wooded hill under a clear blue sky

Clear soaring in the pristine blue sky
澄み渡った手付かずの青空

A single bird soaring high in a deep blue, cloudless sky above a line of trees

Shine on one
そして照らし続ける

Low sun flaring over a dark treeline, casting light across a wet, freshly worked paddy field

The road going somewhere
どこかに続く道

A raised farm track running straight between paddy fields toward a wooded hill

Reflecting upon the reflection
心深く反射を見る

A wooded hill mirrored in the still water of a flooded paddy, a white van on the lane at right

Soon to plant seedlings
まもなく始まる田植え

A broad flooded paddy stretching toward a distant village, its surface glassy and still

Before the entrance
鳥居がかくれんぼ

A gravel farm track beside a paddy, with a red torii gate half-hidden among cedars ahead

The entrance to my adopted shrine
私の崇拝する神社への入り口

A red torii gate standing over a narrow path where the lane meets the forest edge

Exquisite road
-神への道

A straight paved path running through an avenue of tall, slender cedars, dappled with sunlight

Peeking though to you
天照大御神様が木の影から覗く

The sun breaking through a screen of bare branches and trunks, fields visible beyond

Mystic forest
神秘の森

A sunlit gravel path curving up through dense green woodland

Tough hill
険しい丘

A narrow path climbing through a cedar plantation, sunlight pooling on the ground

Tough hill continued
更に続く険しい丘

A steeper section of the wooded path, tall trunks rising on both sides

Narrow pathway to the shrine
神社への小道

A footpath branching from a forest lane, a red torii just visible through the trees ahead

Mossy
苔むした坂道

A close view of a moss-covered stone path, green growth filling the joints between the slabs

Entrance to Tamada shrine
玉田神社の入り口

A shaded approach path leading to a small red shrine building among the trees

Serenity is now closer
自分の中の調和がすぐそこに

A red wooden torii gate over a stone path, sunlight falling across the shrine grounds behind

Old man stone
老人の石

A large stone monument with a dark inscribed plaque, set on a mossy base beneath a tree

One of the deities
神の一人

A carved stone pedestal with an ornate relief, standing beside the red shrine building

Cleans oneself before giving thanks
感謝の前に自分を清める

A roofed temizuya purification basin with a stone trough, in the shade of the trees

Power in simplicity
質素の中に力を感じる

The front of a red shrine hall, a straw shimenawa rope with paper streamers hung above the offering box

Side shrine with more deities
神社の脇にもう一つ小さな神社

A small stone torii and sub-shrine flanked by moss-covered stone lanterns

Beautiful torii back
美しい鳥居の後ろ姿

A weathered stone torii seen from behind, a stone stepped path running beneath it

Beautiful torii front
美しい鳥居の正面

The same weathered stone torii from the front, framing the stepped path into the woods

My favorite travels deities
私のお気に入りの神々

A row of six weathered stone statues on a low plinth at the roadside, backed by dense foliage

On the way out
帰り道で

A paved lane curving away between hedgerows and bamboo, buildings just visible ahead

Amaterasu Oomikami saying hello again
天照大御神様再び

A gravel track running toward the low sun between paddy fields, farmhouses along the right

Blue sky
青い空

A wide bare field under a big blue sky, with an overpass and overhead power lines behind

Heaven and Earth
天と地と

A vast, freshly harrowed field running flat to the horizon under an open blue sky

Herons in the paddy
水田の鷺

Two white egrets standing in a flooded paddy, reflected in the shallow water

Rustic
趣ある廃墟

An old weathered wooden building with sliding doors, propped with bamboo poles and overgrown with grass

Poke through the trees
木を貫く天照大御神様

A cherry tree in early blossom silhouetted against the setting sun, houses and a playground frame behind

The moon
月

The moon, pale and nearly full, high in a soft blue daytime sky with a wisp of cloud

The road home
帰り道

A straight lane between paddy fields at dusk, a hamlet and wooded hill to the left

Humanity's common Sun Goddess, Amaterasu Oomikami going down to rest one more time; she'll be back
私たちの天照大御神様は、再び休むために隠れ、そして再び戻って来る

The sun setting low over a wooded ridge, its light streaking across a wet, furrowed paddy

 

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