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

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

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

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

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

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

Shine on one
そして照らし続ける

The road going somewhere
どこかに続く道

Reflecting upon the reflection
心深く反射を見る

Soon to plant seedlings
まもなく始まる田植え

Before the entrance
鳥居がかくれんぼ

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

Exquisite road
-神への道

Peeking though to you
天照大御神様が木の影から覗く

Mystic forest
神秘の森

Tough hill
険しい丘

Tough hill continued
更に続く険しい丘

Narrow pathway to the shrine
神社への小道

Mossy
苔むした坂道

Entrance to Tamada shrine
玉田神社の入り口

Serenity is now closer
自分の中の調和がすぐそこに

Old man stone
老人の石

One of the deities
神の一人

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

Power in simplicity
質素の中に力を感じる

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

Beautiful torii back
美しい鳥居の後ろ姿

Beautiful torii front
美しい鳥居の正面

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

On the way out
帰り道で

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

Blue sky
青い空

Heaven and Earth
天と地と

Herons in the paddy
水田の鷺

Rustic
趣ある廃墟

Poke through the trees
木を貫く天照大御神様

The moon
月

The road home
帰り道

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