Photos posted in December 2021

An orangutan with a dead leaf in its hand was observing a human visitor to Zoorasia with a streaming eye

Shinobazu-no-ike Benten-do Temple, now connected to the land, was crowded with worshippers

A masked Shinto priest was sweeping the approach to Hanazono Inari Shrine with a bamboo broom

A boy with his hand on his back vaguely watched a street musician playing a Quena

A couple was cuddling under a tree in Ueno Park, looking at the same phone

Chair_ONE designed by Konstantin Grcic was placed in TERRADA ART COMPLEX

Gentle sunlight streamed into the gallery, a renovated warehouse

Perhaps due to the sea breeze, the pedestrian bridge at Higashi-Shinagawa was rusted to shreds

People can come and go freely under the elevated Yamashita Rinko Line Promenade

A Couple pays their respects in the Yokohama Guan Yu Temple, where incense smoke wafts in the air

People were taking pictures of their own accord at Paifang of the Mazu Temple in Yokohama

When the incense sticks accumulated in the incense burner at the Mazu Temple in Yokohama, an attendant would appear and clean up the mess

A Japanese garden stretched outside the curtained window of Kiunkaku's Western-style building

People were walking along the connecting corridor between Scramble Square and Hikarie, which was bathed in brilliant sunlight

The bicycle was galloping along the road leading to Tokyo Skytree

Looking out the window from the Sumida Hokusai Museum, the Tokyo Skytree was seen in the distance

A woman was walking between the shadows formed on the side of the Sobu Line elevated tracks

The engineer of the SL Paleo Express was waving to boys staring at the locomotive intently

The seated statue of Avalokitesvara sits as if to watch over the back of the sutra storehouse

The main shrine of the historic Chichibu Jinja sits just beyond the vermilion gate

A statue of Child-rearing Kannon was enshrined under the eaves of the Kannon Hall with a thousand shrine tags

There are countless stone Buddha statues in the precincts of Kinsho-ji Temple

At the Chichibu Meisenkan Museum, there were people actually working on dyeing

A number of large railroad signals were set up at the end of the platform at Seibu Chichibu Station

Behind a table occupied by ceramic works, I saw a man manipulating flames with his palm

A woman was taking pictures of artwork behind a large work of Gyoji Nomiyama

There were men holding their cameras still in the dimly lit exhibition room of the Artizon Museum

There was a woman standing in the corridor of the Artizon Museum in the sunshine, looking out