APR 19, Japan Visit: Takayama's Festival floats

Placards and displays at the Takayama train station:

  tttthese scale-model reconstructions show the elegant artisanal layers used to fabricate the originals

Reproduction floats (yatai), seen at the Museum:

 

TODAY'S POEM (senryu *) 

tranquilly, I wake

to Lowcountry reflections

rendered in fabric.

Giorgio Coniglio

 * learn more HERE about senryu, a term that designates a lesser-known Japanese short poem that shares the physical characteristics of haiku (nominally 17 'on' / syllables in three non-rhyming lines), but deals in a satiric or humorous way with human foibles rather than with Nature. 

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