APR 29, Japan Visit: Tokyo neighborhoods #2

 

Meiji-jingu, shrine at burial site of the westernizing Emperor Meiji who reigned from 1867 to 1912. 

a tribute-wall made of casks of donated sake(Japanese rice-whiskey)

international tribute:
barrels of gourmet French wine

mascot for the local pro-basketball team

an amateur rock-a-billy dance group 
performs every Sunday in Yoyogi Pa

NIPPORI FABRIC-Town, per web-photos

a fabric department-store

Trendy AKASAKA

immense security-birds at a bicycle parking area

TODAY'S SENRYU* POEM (no pictures allowed)

 public, gender-based,

steamy and meditative:

discover onsen.

 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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