APR 12, Japan Visit: still more Kyoto shrines

strumpidity: a neologism describing a narcissistic suspension of reality

Please refer to the post of April 1 for a limerick-verse on this topic.

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More photos from Japan:

at Fushimi-Inari Shrine, Kyoto

Foxes, not an inherent part of Shinto burial rituals, are mythic messengers of Inari Okimi, the deity of rice and prosperity

View of Kyoto from Mt Inari (rainy day)

Golden pavillion, Kinkakuji shrine

TODAY'S POEM (17-syll. senryu)

pronounce Japanese?

rōmaji (ローマ字) * letters convey

sounds to English ears.

Giorgio Coniglio. 

* readers are advised to refer to the Wikipedia article on the "Romanization of Japanese".

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